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If you’re in need of storage in London, Attic Self Storage has a range of interesting tips, ideas and motivational blogs for you to read. We cover everything from helpful tips & hints, to fun, interesting and local event-driven content in our short, easy to read blogs.

Attic Self Storage Makes Father’s Day

This week’s blog is dedicated to all the dads in the world. Happy Father’s Day fellas! This Sunday is your special day, and Attic Self Storage is here to help you get the very most out of it. After they’ve brought you breakfast in bed, bring your family on a day trip to either King’s […]

Attic Self Storage wins FEDESSA Charity Initiative of the Year 2017

Attic Self Storage Founder and Director, Frederic de Ryckman de Betz, collects the award and a cheque for £3,000 for Artbox London at the FEDESSA conference in Berlin. Attic Self Storage has won the prestigious FEDESSA award for Charity Initiative of the Year, 2017. Presented in Berlin, Germany the award follows hot on the […]

From Boom to Bust?

What’s happening to the housing market today? At Attic Self Storage, personal storage is one of our core businesses and we speak to a lot of people who are moving house and buying homes. We’ve helped a lot of people move and that gives us a unique insight into what’s going on in the property […]

Self Storage Art and the Art of Self Storage

Attic Self Storage has a proud history of supporting The Arts wherever we operate. We’ve sponsored Stratford East Theatre and The Stratford East Singers, and more recently we’ve given our support and even window space to artboxlondon.org, a really worthwhile Islington-based charity who work to give people with learning difficulties access to the arts. We’ve […]

7 Spring Cleaning Tips for the Home

It’s March; the air is still fresh but doesn’t have that harsh bite that winter does and the sun stays out for more than 5 minutes. And the best part is that we’re starting to think about transitioning our homes away from the hibernation den that they’ve turned into over winter, into something fresh, clean […]

What’s the most unusual thing we’ve ever stored?

We’ve had a lot of weird requests over the past nine years when it comes to storing unusual things, but we always do our very best to accommodate people’s requirements. However bizarre they may at first appear. There are the obvious things like the contents of people’s homes that we are used to storing at […]

How do you Declutter Your Home?

Decluttering your home can be one of life’s little pleasures. There’s something inherently satisfying about clearing out your home of things you know you don’t need, use, or even want. But how do you decide what to get rid of? What to store? What to keep in your home? Well, we’re here to help declutter […]

Storage space for Valentine’s Day gifts

So next Tuesday, the 14th of February, is Valentine’s Day. The perfect occasion to show your partner, wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, or significant other, all the love you’ve been storing up for them across the year. If you’re going to try a little harder than a bunch of garage forecourt flowers and a crème egg, […]

2017: A New Year in Self Storage

A new year, a new self storage facility, but no new year resolutions. Christmas mugged me this year. Seriously, I didn’t see it coming at all. It snuck up from behind, hidden in the murky shadows of 2016 (how many celebrities is it possible to say goodbye to in one year!?) and jumped me. Before […]

Hubbubs, Drumrolls & Sleighbells

Hubbubs, Drumrolls & Sleighbells what a great finish to an exciting year. Halloween has come and all the ghouls have now gone. Bonfire night went off with a whoosh and a bang and then fizzled out in a downpour. Black Friday disappeared in a flurry of discount spending. And now Christmas is racing towards us […]

London Self Storage business Wins Industry Innovation Award

An independent self storage operator based in London, England, has won an industry award for innovation. Attic Self Storage, based in Bow, East London, won the Federation of European Self Storage Associations (FEDESSA) Award for Outstanding Business Initiative 2016. The highly prized award saw three finalists competing for top honours, although Attic was by far […]

Attic Wins FEDESSA Self Storage Award 2016

We’ve done it again! For the second time, Attic Self Storage has been recognised for excellence at the leading European industry awards. Some of our clients have been storing with us since before 2012. Those clients may recall that we won the FEDESSA Customer Service Award in that year. Now, four years on, we’ve done […]

How to Send a Donation From A to Bee!

The Bee Song – Oh, what a wonderful thing to be A healthy, grown-up, busy-busy bee Whiling away all the passing hours Pinching all the pollen from the cauliflowers I’d like to be a busy little bee Being as busy as a bee can be Flying around the garden, brightest ever seen Taking back the […]

The Wonderful World of the Web

Our new Website at Attic self storage. Stop for a second. Have a look around. Do you notice something different about the way Attic Self Storage looks? That’s right, you spotted it – we’ve had a thorough on-line makeover and we now have a shiny new website up and running. Everything about it is better […]

Sunshine, Rain & Rugby

The London 10s Rugby Cup sponsored by Attic Storage After the success of Rugby 7s at the Olympics it was a pleasure to see the return of the London 10s Cup sponsored by Attic Self Storage last weekend. The day started off sunny enough. Over 150 people descended on HRFCs home turf, Spring Hill, […]

Find Romance in Self Storage!

Attic Self Storage and happily ever after Now I’m a happily married man but I am reliably informed by my single friends that dating websites and Apps are the new way to find romance in this increasingly disconnected digital world. A few years ago, I seem to remember they were the same people who used […]

Swimming, Storage & Planting

With the sunshine heading our way, now’s the time to dig out your shorts, trunks and bikinis and get yourself geared up for the beach, hotel pool, or festival campsite

Self Storage Annual Survey 2016

The Self Storage Association of the UK is about to release the results of its latest annual survey. What’s in store for the industry? A secret glimpse at the survey has told us that the self storage industry in the UK remains in rude health. The industry added around 5% of floorspace through the course […]

May Day

May All Your Storage Needs Be Met This May Is it really almost May? With snow dusting the country, and people pulling their puffer jackets out of storage again, it’s hard to believe that May is just around the corner. But Attic Self Storage has a vested interest in spotting reasons – and seasons – […]

The Ever Expanding Attic Self Storage in London

King’s Cross Self Storage Opening Soon in London Last week saw us pouring the concrete on a brand new Attic Self Storage facility over in King’s Cross, Islington (London). And although our roots are firmly East End, we’re pleased to report that no local villains were added to the mix. It’s been a long time in […]

It’s Record Store Day

On Record Store Day, Space is the Place for Record Collectors Escaping the April showers , I’m sitting in a little café called Vinyl having an Americano, and it’s set me to thinking about records and record stores. I’m not talking about Attic Self Storage’s record-breaking customer service record, HMRC records, or even, ahem, prison […]

Space: You need it, we hear you scream

Space: The Final Frontier, and Every Self Storage Customer’s Dream After the resounding success of The Attic Cryogenic Self Storage Space offer on April 1st, we’ve checked our SEO stats, Google analytics and web visitor data, and we are very happy to be able to confirm the following: 1. 99.5% of our customers are too smart […]

Self Storage Business Invests in Cryogenics

London-based Self Storage Business Keeps Cool Following almost two decades of ongoing research and significant investment, a London based self storage business has finally perfected a commercial cryogenic solution. Attic Self Storage is proud to announce a brand new storage option for everybody. And they do mean every body. In a giant leap forward for […]

Storage Wins Gold: Customer Service

London self storage business has been awarded the respected Feefo Trusted Merchant – Gold award for 2016. Storage drums roll. Spotlight. Camera. “And the Winner is…” Attic Self Storage (and all our lovely customers). Thank you, thank you, thank you. *sob. I’d just like to express my appreciation to Sonia, Ikraam, Leon, […]

Choir attracts new sponsorship

Attic Self Storage sponsors East London’s top choir at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. You may have heard about this choir, the Stratford East Singers. They won 3rd place in Gareth Malone’s “The Naked Choir”. ( BBC 2, October 2015. ) Attic Self Storage is very pleased to announce that we have extended our support of […]

Christmas in Storage

We were approached recently by a local school, St Elizabeth Catholic Primary School in Bethnal Green, East London, after a family faced eviction just days before Christmas. With nowhere to go and no resources to pay for removals or storage, this family was facing a most awful Christmas. Thankfully, together with a local man & […]

Attic Self Storage Supports Hackney Rugby Football Club

In the run-up to the Rugby World Cup, which is set to open with this evening’s opening match between England and Fiji at the home of Rugby, Twickenham at 8pm, Hackney RFC has continued to grow from strength to strength. Following a sponsorship deal announced with Attic Self Storage, Hackney RFC will enjoy additional financial […]

2015 SSA UK Annual Survey Released

Self Storage Survey Paints Positive Picture The 2015 annual survey into self storage in the United Kingdom has been released by the SSA UK and Cushman & Wakefield, painting a positive picture for the industry as a whole. Overall, rental rate growth for the industry was over 7% over the course of the year, well […]

Swarming Bees

Bees are on the rise! Finally. After years of concern and declines which we struggled to fathom, bees may be making a comeback. The science may be divided on the causes for the decline of the honeybee (although we err on the side of a lack of biodiversity in the countryside and those pesky neonicotinides […]

Packing winter into a box

As we enter our third year following a bio-diverse planting theme around the front of our self storage building in Bow,some of you might have noticed that we recently joined the British Bee Keepers Association and became an official “Friend of the Honeybee”. I am delighted to be able to tell you that our various […]

Storing the sun

If, like me, you have small children chances are you know who Mr Grue is, and you know what he he did (or may not) have done. All we know is, the moon was stolen for a brief time before it was put back, and it was the greatest coup from any super villain ever. […]

Buzzing for stickers!

As spring rolls around, Attic Self Storage is pleased to announce some exciting news… we are supporting the honey bee, in partnership with the British Bee Keepers Association (the BBKA) and their Friends of the Honeybee campaign. Going forwards, for every single move-in, we will be donating £1 to the BBKA and the Friends […]

SSA Meets in Glasgow

The Self Storage Association is hosting a member’s meeting at the Corinthian Hotel in Glasgow. This will include welcome drinks, offering members and potential new members the opportunity to network and discuss business and self storage. The welcome drinks will be followed by a three course meal, during which a guest speaker will discuss contemporary […]

Happy Valentines!

Just a short note as the week winds to a close and Valentines day occurs on a Saturday for the first time in ages… I’m off for some typical last-minute shopping but before I do go, I just wanted to pass on some big love from the whole team here at Attic, and wish all […]

Attic Self Storage supports local arts

PRESS RELEASE 6 FEBRUARY 2015 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Attic Self Storage supports Theatre Royal Stratford East It has been announced today that Attic Self Storage has become a business partner of Theatre Royal Stratford East, providing £3,500 to support the theatre’s work over the next year. The partnership between Attic Self Storage and […]

Happy New Year!

A very happy New Year to all our clients for 2015! Wishing you and your friends, family and acquaintances all the very best for a happy, successful and prosperous new year. Thank you for all your support during the course of 2014, it has been another great year of growth for us here at Attic […]

Moving the Rocket Man

Not our usual day last Friday. That’s because it’s not every day we get to work with a world-class sportsman like Ronnie O’Sullivan. And even more special, whereas we normally pride ourselves on client confidentiality (we are proud of the long list of well known public figures we have had the privilege to assist, but […]

Best In Class Customer Service Is No Accident

Attic Self Storage, based in East London, has invested further in training and coaching the team. Already the winners of the FEDESSA European Customer Service Award in 2012, the team has decided to go for broke and see if it can win another award in 2015. With the assistance of the Government run Growth Vouchers […]

Attic Attains Living Wage Accreditation

PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATTIC STORAGE AND REMOVALS CELEBRATE LIVING WAGE COMMITMENT The Living Wage Foundation is pleased to announce that Attic Storage and Removals Solutions has today, 8th October 2014, been accredited as a Living Wage employer. The Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Attic Storage and Removals […]

Store First Investments Questioned

Following a review by the SSA UK of Store First Investment material, which itself resulted in a more in-depth review by financial services firm Deloitte, questions are being asked of the Store First investment model and in particular, how guaranteed rental returns are being funded. This has now been picked up by Professional Adviser in […]

How Self Storage Helps The Cost of Living Crisis

Cost of Living Crisis? Newly Released Study By AskActive Shows True Cost of Spare Rooms, Announces Attic Self Storage Unemployment is down, inflation remains low, everything looks grand. Except, wage growth is nowhere to be seen, placing pressure on households across the country. Active Supply & Design has just released a timely analysis conducted in […]

Bp Collins assists in Attic Self Storage Growth

Great businesses don’t happen overnight. And they don’t grow alone either. It takes hard work, belief, dedication, attention to detail, trust and teamwork. And in that list, teamwork is one of the most important aspects: you need to find, and surround yourself, with good people. Attic Self Storage was fortunate to come across BP Collins […]

Craft Rebellion Celebrates With Attic

Another satisfied self storage customer in London, this time it’s Martin Ritchie from Craft Rebellion. Craft Rebellion is vibrant new start-up shaking up the establishment in the craft ale world. Delivering nothing but excellent, fresh beer to your doorstep, Craft Rebellion’s stated aim is to make sure that no-one drinks cold, fizzy, tasteless beer any […]

Easter Chocolates from Happy Clients

Some of our self storage and removals clients were so impressed with the service they received recently, from pretty much the whole team, that they sent us a lovely card to say thank you… and a big box of Thorntons chocolates! How amazing is that! Not only does our team continue to provide excellent levels […]

Happy Clients give us cake!

Our customer service here at Attic is legendary, and we have already been recognised by the Federation of European Self Storage Associations with the 2012 customer service award, beating entrants from across Europe. We all know how rare it is these days for anyone to take a couple of minutes to thank someone for a […]

Attic Self Storage on the BBC

The BBC ran the next instalment of its Business Boomers series on the evening of April 14th, 2014. This well respected programme succeeds the well respected and popular Money Programme on BBC 2. Self storage is a booming industry in the UK. Originally imported as a concept from the United States, as the trend towards […]

Attic featured on the BBC (again)

Attic Self Storage features on the BBC news website and on BBC television tonight at nine O’Clock. More follows…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26921870

Self Storage Focus Magazine

Attic Self Storage, based in Bow, East London features on the front cover of the latest edition of Focus. Focus is the only regular publication for the self storage industry in the UK and in Europe, incorporating the FEDESSA (Federation of European Self Storage Associations) magazine as well. The magazine covers a number of topics […]

Self Storage Grows in London

Our Main Office and Reception Refurbishment Project is Now Finished! We have finally completed our refurbishment project for our store in Bow, East London. Having invested a considerable financial sum and also put up with workmen, dust and works on site over a three month period, the team was very pleased to finally move in to […]

Attic Self Storage in the Economist Magazine

The Economist magazine has written a piece about self storage in the UK. Included in the latest edition of the weekly magazine, which has a distributorship of over 3 million copies in the UK alone in addition to the website and other electronic editions, the article appears in the February 1st 2014 magazine which will […]

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