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The best storage disappears.
Almost nobody needs a bigger house. What most people need is for the house they have to hold their belongings sensibly, so that the hall is not a cloakroom, the spare room is not a warehouse, and the loft is something other than a place things go to be forgotten.
Made for your walls, not a catalogue
- Alcove shelving and cupboards either side of the chimney breast, scribed to the wall
- Full-height bookcases built into the room rather than standing in front of it
- Under-stairs storage: drawers, a cupboard, a desk nook or a place for shoes and coats that works
- Loft boarding done properly, raised above the insulation so it keeps working
- Loft ladders and hatches, including enlarging a hatch that is too small to be useful
- Loft lighting, so nobody balances a torch again
- Garage racking, shelving and bike storage that clears the floor
- Utility and boot room shelving, hooks and benches for the muddy end of family life
- Wardrobe interiors reorganised: better rails, shelves and drawers inside what you already have
- Window seats with storage beneath, which is the most useful piece of joinery in most houses
- Home office shelving that hides the cables and the router
- Airing cupboard slatted shelving replaced or added
Storage is a design problem, not a shopping problem
We measure how you live
Before anything is drawn, we ask what actually needs storing and how often you reach for it. Daily things belong between waist and shoulder; annual things belong in the loft. Most storage fails because that question was never asked.
Built in, not stood against
Fitted joinery scribed to your walls uses every inch, sits flush and reads as part of the house. Flat-pack in an alcove wastes the corners and always announces itself.
Insulation stays insulation
Boarding straight onto joists squashes loft insulation flat and quietly costs you money every winter. We raise the boarding above it on legs, which is more work, more materials, and the only correct way to do it.
Storage, not a room
Boarding a loft for suitcases and Christmas boxes is straightforward work. Turning a loft into a habitable room is an entirely different matter, involving structural calculations, escape routes, fire separation, proper stairs and Building Regulations approval, and it belongs with a builder and an architect rather than with us.
We are also honest about weight. Loft joists in most houses were sized to hold up a ceiling, not a library, and we will say so if what you are planning to store up there is heavier than the structure would like.
Alcove shelving is around £485 a bay, made to fit and painted. Loft boarding raised above the insulation runs roughly £30 to £45 a square metre depending on access, with a ladder and hatch upgrade from £380. Under-stairs storage and window seats are quoted to the design, and generally start around £900.
The services on this site are starting points rather than a menu. They can be combined, taken apart, or reduced to the single job you actually want doing. If all you need is a curtain pole hung, a patch of damaged wall made good or a sticking door eased, ring and ask for exactly that.
Which room has lost the argument?
The overflowing one, usually. Send a photograph of the space and tell us what needs to live there, and we will come back with an idea and a written price.