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Under-stairs storage in Walham Green, Hammersmith and Fulham
Few London rooms are perfectly square, and we scribe the furniture to follow the walls. We make under-stairs storage for homes in Walham Green, each designed at a visit to your home.
- Storage that does not match the hallway
- A fuse board that’s hard to get to
- No room for a small desk or a place to work
Under-stairs storage in Walham Green
Under-stairs storage in Walham Green
The space under a staircase is often the hardest-working spot in a house, and the least organised. Our under-stairs storage is planned around what you need to store, with pull-out drawers, cupboards or a combination of the two. For a home in Walham Green, it starts with a design visit to measure the space and talk it through. If your home has a meter or fuse board buried behind clutter and cleaning things with no proper home, under-stairs cupboards made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish can solve it.
With a large share of homes around Walham Green built before 1919, the space under the stairs in a terraced house often holds the gas meter, the electricity meter or the fuse board. Meter readers and engineers need to get to them, so the design keeps them accessible. Sash and bay windows are common in houses of that age too, and good places for seating with storage below.
Everything we agree during the design visit goes into the written quote: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If you’d like to change anything, it is easier before the furniture is made.
- Place
- Walham Green (SW6, SW10, SW11)
- Borough
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Materials and finish
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Working days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Fitted storage in Walham Green
Homes built before 1919 make up about 54% of the housing in the area around Walham Green, with about 21% built since 2000, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). The age of a home tells us a lot about its walls, floors and ceilings, and so about how under-stairs cupboards are fixed and fitted. The National Heritage List has 45 entries within half a mile of the centre of Walham Green. Original fireplaces, shutters and panelling are worth keeping where they survive, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. Purpose-built flats are home to about 50% of households in the streets around Walham Green, in the ONS Census 2021 figures. For a flat, under-stairs cupboards are made in sections sized for the stairs, the lift and the doors. Many blocks have rules on lift booking and working hours, so check with the managing agent before fitting day.
For families living near Chelsea Independent College, a place for each person’s coat and shoes stops the hallway filling up. If your home is one of the older houses near Church of St John, pull-out drawers can reach right to the back of a deep under-stairs space.
Walham Green is in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, about 1 mile west of Fulham. Wherever you are in Walham Green, the process is the same: a design visit, a written quote, furniture built in our workshop and fitting in your home. In Hammersmith and Fulham, Walham Green is one of the places we cover.
We make under-stairs storage across SW6, SW10 and SW11. You’ll find streets here such as Farm Lane, Lots Road and Epple Road, and we cover homes on all of them for under-stairs storage. Walham Green is near the A304, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you get in touch. Neighbouring places we cover for under-stairs storage include Chelsea Harbour (1 mile south-east), Parsons Green (1 mile south-west), World's End (1 mile north-east), Sands End (1 mile south-east) and West Brompton (1 mile north). Elsewhere in Hammersmith and Fulham, we also cover Hammersmith (2 miles north-west), Shepherd's Bush (2 miles north-west), Brackenbury Village (2 miles north-west), White City (3 miles north-west), Brook Green (2 miles north-west) and College Park (4 miles north-west). Walham Green is one of the larger places we cover in Hammersmith and Fulham.
Near you in Walham Green
The streets we cover here include those near Natural History Museum Library and Archives, Langford Primary School and The Rose pub and the streets around them. Walham Green has its own railway station: Imperial Wharf station. A little further out are Chelsea Stadium Tour And Museum (close by, under half a mile north) and Putney Exchange (1.5 miles south-west).
Do you need under-stairs storage in Walham Green?
Sometimes the reason is a meter reading or an engineer’s visit, and the struggle to reach the meter. Planned storage can leave a clear path to the meter or fuse board, while the rest of the space is put to proper use.
Most of the enquiries we get are about needs like these:
- Open space under the stairs that collects clutter
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
- Nowhere to keep the vacuum and ironing board
- Nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags
Near listed buildings like Sandford Manor House, less than half a mile east of the centre of Walham Green, older homes may keep original joinery that under-stairs cupboards can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent.
What to check before you book
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- Where they’ll park and unload
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
Fitting day, step by step
However carefully a piece is made in the workshop, it still has to meet the room, and fitting day is where that happens. Walls in older homes are rarely flat or square, so we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the shape of the space and the number of drawers and doors, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Terraced streets in London are often lined with parked cars, so details of permits, bays and any loading restrictions help. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturday fitting can be arranged.
- You tell us about the stairs and what you’d like to store, like coats, shoes or the vacuum cleaner.
- At the design visit, the space is measured and any meters are noted, because they must stay accessible.
- The design is agreed and a written quote follows, with the finish set out.
- The storage is built in our workshop and painted in your colour.
- The storage is fitted, scribed to the stairs and checked with you.
How to prepare
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Keep pets in another room while we work
Getting a quote
For a quote for under-stairs storage in Walham Green, message us from the contact page. Let us know which room it is and roughly what you have in mind, with sizes if you have them. We’ll arrange a design visit, then send a quote in writing.
Advice
Questions from Walham Green
Can you fit furniture in a home close to Imperial Wharf station?
Yes. We cover all of Hammersmith and Fulham and the rest of London. You can send us a few details through our contact form to arrange a design visit.
My house in Walham Green is Victorian. Can you deal with uneven walls?
Yes. Walls in older houses are rarely flat or square, and floors are often out of level, so each piece is scribed to follow the wall and set level on a plinth or adjustable feet. Skirting, picture rails and cornices are met neatly or cut around. Older walls can be solid brick or lath and plaster, and the fixings are chosen to suit.
Which materials go into your under-stairs cupboards?
We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. The doors and fronts are MDF, which is stable and paints well, while birch plywood gives strength to the drawers and carcasses. Everything is finished by spray painting or hand painting.
Can under-stairs storage work around the fuse board?
Yes. The design keeps a clear way to the meter or fuse board, often with a door of its own. Access matters for readings and safety checks, so we design around it.
Can you fit furniture on an external wall?
External walls can be colder and damper than internal ones, so we allow for ventilation behind and inside the furniture, which helps avoid condensation and mould. If there’s damp, it should be sorted before anything is fitted.
Can I send pictures ahead of the visit?
Yes, they help. A few pictures of the room, from floor to ceiling, tell us a lot, particularly with rough sizes. To send them, tell us about the room on our contact form.
Boards, parts and paint
Plinths and scribe strips
We trim scribe strips to the exact line of the wall. They help the storage look as though it was always there. At floor level, the plinth hides any slope in the floor.
Pull-out drawers
The back of an under-stairs space is hard to reach, so drawers that slide out are often the answer. You see everything at once, without reaching into the dark. Shoe drawers, a drawer for the vacuum and drawers for cleaning things are all possible.
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Off-the-shelf units are made for flat walls and square corners, and the space under a staircase is neither. Boxed units normally leave awkward gaps under the slope and dead space behind. Bespoke storage is designed and cut to the shape of your stairs. It’s a bigger investment than a flat-pack unit, and the return is in the space it uses. Recesses in older houses come in every size except the standard ones, so off-the-shelf pieces either don’t fit or leave a gap either side. Made for the space, the furniture uses the full width and height.
The finish affects the cost: spray painting is done in the workshop, while hand painting can be done on site. The written quote reflects your choice, along with the size and fittings.
What you get with us
- 300+ projects completed
- Designed for the room you have
- Spray painted or hand painted, in the colour you choose
- A design visit, then a quote in writing
Take a look at how bespoke compares with ready-made or how to compare quotes.
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What else we make in Walham Green
Honest limits
We make and fit furniture, and we don’t do electrics, plumbing, gas, plastering or structural work. Please bear these in mind too:
- Making good the walls and ceiling, which is for a plasterer or decorator
- Gas pipework, which needs a Gas Safe registered engineer
- New sockets, lights or wiring, which are for your electrician
If you are not sure what’s possible in your room, you can send us a few details through our contact form and we will give you a straight answer. How a job runs, step by step.
What goes into it
- Spray-painted finish
- Hand-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Pull-out drawers
- Birch plywood