Inspiration

Under stairs storage inspiration

Real StairFit installations, from deep pull out drawers and shoe storage to cupboards, shelving and coat storage. Every photograph is a genuine job in a customer's home; where we photographed the same installation closed and open, you can switch between the two. Use them to see what might work beneath your staircase, then price your own configuration with the online estimator.

Sage green under stairs storage with three angled doors, closed, beside a white staircase with oak handrail

The same sage green storage open, showing pull out drawers and an extended coat hook rail

Sage green Shaker

Three angled push to open doors in sage green under an oak handrail. Behind them: pull out drawers and a coat hook rail that disappears when it's not needed.

Pull out drawers
Coat hooks
Push to open

Sage green Shaker under stairs storage seen from the hallway — From the hallway

Sage green cupboard open with pull out coat hooks on walnut pegs — Pull out coat hooks

Dark walnut under stairs storage matching a walnut staircase with LED lit steps and marble floor — Closed

The same walnut run with everything open: the drawer, the seat pad bench and both cupboard doors — Closed

Dark walnut, LED lit staircase

Walnut finish doors matched to the staircase itself, beside a marble tiled hallway. Tap a number to open one section at a time, or Open to see everything out at once.

Pull out drawer
Pull out bench
Finish matched doors

White Shaker under stairs storage with four doors stepping down beneath a white spindle staircase with oak handrail

The same white Shaker storage with three pull out drawers open at different depths and the coat hook rail visible behind the tall door

Smooth White Contemporary Shaker

Four Shaker doors stepping down with the stairs. The three lower bays are pull out drawers on full extension runners; the tall bay has a coat hook rail behind the door.

Pull out drawers
Coat hook rail
Push to open

Tall bay open showing a row of coat hooks, with a drawer pulled out below — Coat hooks and drawer

Close up of two door fronts meeting on an even shadow gap beneath the stair stringer — Even gaps, no handles

White panelled under stairs frontage, closed, above herringbone flooring

The same white frontage with two large angled drawers fully extended on runners

White panelling, full extension drawers

Closed, the panelling looks like part of the hallway. Open, every bay is an angled drawer on full extension runners, so nothing at the back is out of reach.

Angled drawers
Full extension runners

White Shaker under stairs doors, closed, beside a pink painted period staircase and patterned tiled floor

The same under stairs cupboard open, with a pull out coat rail with oak pegs extended

Period hallway, patterned tiles

Fitted around a painted period balustrade and original patterned floor. The door swings clear to reveal a pull out coat rail with oak pegs.

Cupboard
Pull out coat rail

White panelled angled under stairs doors on grey wood flooring

The same unit with the angled door open and pull out shoe drawer extended

White angled doors, shoe storage

Panelled angled doors scribed to the skirting, with a pull out shoe drawer working alongside a full height cupboard.

Shoe drawer
Cupboard

An empty open alcove beneath a white spindled staircase with a herringbone floor, before storage was fitted

The same alcove fitted with two white panelled doors following the angle of the stairs

Herringbone hall, alcove to doors

This staircase had an open alcove and nowhere to put anything. Two panelled push to open doors now close it off, scribed to the stringer and skirting over the herringbone floor.

Angled doors
Push to open

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Nine hallways, one at a time

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A white under stairs run of four panelled doors and drawers beside an oak and white balustrade

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A full run in white

Four doors and a drawer stack, each front cut to the rake of the stair.

More installations

Full width under stairs storage run with four white doors beneath a turned staircase — Four push to open Shaker doors beneath a turned staircase

White under stairs cupboards in a period home with black staircase and Victorian tiled floor — Cupboards fitted around a period staircase and Victorian tiles

Textured white under stairs doors with push to open latches beneath an oak balustrade — Textured white slab fronts, push to open, no handles

Hallway under stairs storage with panelled doors and drawer in white — Panelled doors with a drawer below, white

Angled pull out shoe drawer under the stairs opened to show two levels of shoes — Angled pull out shoe drawer, two tiers

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Work in progress

One project, before to after

The same staircase through installation, from the cupboard that was there before to the finished run.

Before
The original cupboard: one door, one handle and a deep space that was hard to use.
Strip out
The old panelling comes off and the space is opened up, with the floor covered and the wiring checked.
Carcasses in
Full carcasses are levelled and fixed, with shelf bays and drawer runners ready. The meter keeps its own access.
Fronts on
Doors and drawer boxes go on, still in their protective film while the gaps are aligned.
After
Painted panelled fronts that follow the staircase, push to open, over the original tiled floor.