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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.

How Flexible is Our Flexible Storage?

Imagine something really, really flexible. The trunk of a rubber tree in a hurricane; The tongue of a chameleon catching a cricket; The knee joints of a contortionist squashed inside a fish tank; The thumbs of a teenager dumping her boyfriend by text; A six-foot snake side-winding through silvery sand; An eel slipping through fronds […]

The West Handyside Canopy Market

Just down the road from Attic Self Storage in King’s Cross, tucked in between Waitrose and Central Saint Martins under the West Handyside Canopy, is a mouthwatering monthly market. Canopy Market, as it’s called, is open on Friday 24th (12–8pm) Saturday 25th (11–6pm) and Sunday 26th (11–6pm) of November for three days of full-on foodie […]

Hyde Park Winter Wonderland 2017

In case you didn’t get the e-mail, Christmas is just around the corner. Attic Self Storage will be open throughout the festive period if you’re looking for a magical storage experience. But if you’re after yuletide shopping and seasonal entertainment, you might be better off heading to Hyde Park – Winter Wonderland opened at 5pm […]

Remember, Remember the Whole of November

November really is a month for remembering stuff. Last weekend we marked the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament with Bonfire Night celebrations (hope you managed to catch one of the spectacular firework displays we posted about last week). In case you forget your history, the ringleader of the plot was a […]

Guy Fawkes or Bonfire Night

This is the weekend to keep the pets indoors and your eyes on the skies. Historically the 5th of November is a day to celebrate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when Guy Fawkes was stopped from blowing up King James 1st and the Houses of Parliament – hence Guy Fawkes Day or, more […]

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 […]

A Halloween Horror Story

It was the night of Halloween and a creeping fog had descended, blurring the orange glow of the street lamps. Little Jenny was dressed as a zombie bride. Her older brother, Paul, for reasons best known to himself, was wearing full England strip and had half a football pulled down on his head with “red […]

What Are You Doing For Half Term?

Half term can be a full on nightmare if you’re a parent. How do you keep your little ones amused? What do you feed them? Where can you take them for a day out in London without spending a fortune? (Have seen how much they charge for a child seat, box of popcorn and bucket […]

Festival Season Isn’t Over Yet

Just when you thought it was time to wash the glitter off your cheeks, take the flowers out of your hair and put the glamping gear back into storage, another festival is about to burst into life on the streets of London. The Bloomsbury Festival 2017 Just down the road from Attic Self Storage in […]

24 Hour Self Storage. Why Settle for Less?

There are some companies that restrict your access to your storage to a certain amount of hours every month. Or they’ll only let you in at certain times of the day. Which isn’t very helpful if you suddenly remember at 11.30pm at night that you need that special titanium thingy-me-bob from your storage unit for […]

Searching for Secure Business Storage in London?

Running a business is hard enough without having to contend with the sticky tentacles of thieves and burglars stealing it out from under you. We don’t want to scare people into becoming our customers for secure business storage, but the truth is crime is on the rise across the capital and across the country. No […]

Graffiti Art at Attic Self Storage Kings Cross

Around the World in 80 Walls

When you look at a wall, what do you see? Brick, concrete, a superficial layer of plaster, or something deeper and altogether more symbolic? Walls protect us and define our living spaces, but they can also divide, restrict and imprison us. From the perspective of most street artists, however, a blank wall is an empty […]

King’s Cross Classic Car Boot Sale

Do you like car boots? What about car headlights, chrome bumpers, alloy wheels, exhaust manifolds and supercharged engines? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, we have a right treat in store for you this weekend. Or, to be more accurate, the treat is just down the road from our King’s Cross store. […]

Shoe Storage Ideas that will Make Your Heels Click

If you’re not careful the shoe situation in your home can spiral out of control! Whether you’re a fashionista with a high heel addiction or a bustling family of 6, either way, piles upon piles of shoes dominating the doorway or making your cupboard chaotic isn’t a good look. Read on to discover creative and […]

Notting Hill Carnival – Personal Tribute

After the tragedy of The Grenfell Tower fire in June of this year, the return of carnival to the W10 and W11 area will come as a welcome relief for an awful lot of the residents. It’s a time for the community to come together in a spirit of happiness, celebration, unity and healing. Second […]

Working From Home: Create a Clutter Free Haven

Office work often equals noisy colleagues and constant interruptions. Working from home can offer a chance to concentrate in silence and be more productive. At the same time, working from home can present its own temptations and distractions. Daytime TV, your pet dog or even last night’s leftovers in the fridge can be all too […]

Top Tips for a Stress Free Move

Moving house can be pretty daunting. Packing up the entire contents of your life’s belongings into a removal van and leaving the familiar for the unfamiliar is no easy task. It’s any wonder that, alongside divorce and death, moving house is generally considered one of life’s most stressful events. Here at Attic Storage we’ve identified […]

The Great British Apple Festival

No, this isn’t a get together for computer geeks with a penchant for Macs over PCs. This is a festival for fruit freaks. Just check out some of the scrumptious celebrities on the guest list: D’Arcy Spice, Edward VII, Claygate Pearmain, Bramley’s Seedling, Kidd’s Orange Red, Blenheim Orange, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Laxton’s Superb, Egremont Russet, […]

What Would You Do With More Space at Home?

Whether you need to accommodate your growing family, or you like to collect clothes or hoard household antiques – all of us could use a little extra space at home. Combine this with the fact that house prices are surging yet we’re generally getting less space for our money (especially in locations like London), extra […]

The Clock Tower Festival

It’s festival time again. This Sunday, July 30th, The Clock Tower Festival comes back to Caledonian Park in Market Road, N7 9PL from 12 noon until 6pm. It’s a 5-minute walk from Attic Self Storage on York Way, so if you’ve got stuff in storage with us you can visit your storage unit and enjoy […]

Shop Storage Solutions for a Nation of Shopkeepers

It was supposedly Napoleon Bonaparte who referred to England, or the UK as a whole, as ‘a nation of shopkeepers’. Whether it was meant as an insult or not, it is truer now in 2017 than it ever was in the late 1700s. New Estate Agents, Coffee Shops and Bookies seem to spring up like […]

How to Organise Your Garage

Last year’s artificial Christmas tree, unwanted boot sale items, suitcases and sporting equipment – does this accurately describe the contents of your garage? It can be easy to assign unnecessary items to this space in your home. Before you know it though, your garage has become a delegated dumping ground for anything and everything! Lawn […]

Making Your House Move Eco Friendly

‘Carbon footprint’, ‘global warming’, ‘green living’, ‘eco-friendly’ – rewind a decade or two and very few of us were even aware of such terms. A few years on and we’re bombarded with lingo like this on a regular basis. As a result, being ‘green’ is on everybody’s radar. From fashion to food, you can guarantee […]

Searching for Storage Solutions in East London

East London is home to many great things – The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the Tower of London and Brick lane. One thing’s for sure though, as much as East London is a vibrant and fascinating place to visit or work in, it’s an extremely expensive location to live or start a business. Soaring rent […]

Market Road Gallery Official Launch

Ice creams, sun-dried sandwiches and spray cans were all out in force on Saturday 17th June which saw the official unveiling of our open-air art gallery. We had a DJ, football for the kids and plenty of painting going on. A great day was had by all, and at the centre of it all was […]

All the Fun of the Fair

Roll up! Roll up! The funfair is coming to our side of town. Just around the corner from Attic Self Storage on York Way in King’s Cross. We’re pleased to welcome the M+L Pleasure Fair to Caledonian Park, Market Road, N7 9PL. 16th – 25th June. (Weekdays 3pm until 9.30 pm. Weekends 12 Noon until […]

Student Storage Over Summer

Annoying flat mates, daytime TV marathons and last minute-panic-stricken essay submissions – the student experience wouldn’t be an authentic one without it. If there’s anything else that can be guaranteed (apart from studying very hard, of course) it’s that you will probably move accommodation at least once. The less lucky will move much more than […]

Struggling With Storage in the Office Space

It’s never easy keeping employees stress free, especially with the pace of modern city life. With London property costs at an all-time high, creating extra space in the office is beneficial for businesses large and small, and it all starts with a simple de-clutter. It’s not just about creating space for new employees though; it’s […]

The History of the Cardboard Box

Where would we be without cardboard boxes, eh? In a right mess that’s where. Apples and toys all over the place. Books all over the floor. When it comes to moving home, storing clothes or entertaining children you can’t go wrong with a good old-fashioned cardboard box. But where did they come from originally? According […]

Ivory or Magnolia

A short story about excess magnolia paint The Kindle & Fall Paint Company are having a board meeting. It was raining outside. Big heavy clouds threatened a colossal monsoon, but this being England, the rain was the fine misty kind. It wasn’t enough to drench you in a hurry, but enough to make you look […]

Is Self Storage in London Expensive?

Self storage is often seen as an expensive way to store your items, but it’s not always the case. Whilst of course there is a charge involved with most things, you’ll find that storage costs are often very reasonable and can work out cheaper than the alternatives. In this post we explore some of the […]

The Merry Month of May Comes to King’s Cross

As summer starts to fully blossom, the area around Attic Self Storage in King’s Cross is coming to life with entertainments and attractions for the whole family in May. Here are three of the biggest and juiciest: Yes we Canopy On the last weekend of the month the West Handyside Canopy Market squeezes itself back […]

Art in the Attic

Artbox London, a local charity, held an extremely successful open exhibition last week. The hosts, local business Attic Self Storage, have also agreed to maintain a permanent exhibition for the Islington based charity going forward. Artbox is a local charity, founded in 2011 by Madeline Alterman. Artbox helps people with learning disabilities to access the […]

Need a Wardrobe Declutter?

Spring cleaning tips to save you time Clothes piling up in your wardrobe? Feel like your furniture surfaces are now storage areas? Then you’ve come to the right page. Decluttering your wardrobe for warmer months is without doubt something we all have to go through, and is best given a full afternoon rather than a […]

Hemmingway Design and Vintage Festival

Present classic car boot sale at Kings Cross Self Storage and Car Boot Sales go together like bubble wrap and boxes. Which is why we’re so pleased that this weekend, Saturday 22nd – Sunday 23rd April, the area around the Attic Self Storage Kings Cross store is about to come to life with the sound […]

Ingenious Garage Storage

We’re well and truly into spring now and it’s the time of year when we start to think about clearing out our garages so we can start using them again for the summer. Whether your garage is used purely for storage, a workshop or even as part of your summer living space, we’ve got some […]

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 […]

What’s the Best Way to Store Furniture?

Some of the bulkiest and space-consuming items in a home are the most expensive ones too. Beds, sofas, wardrobes, armchairs, chests of drawers, TV sets. So when it come to storing furniture it’s best to make sure you do it properly. A clean start For starters you need to thoroughly clean those items that you […]

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 […]

The Attic Guide to Storage for Moving House

Moving house is something we all do, something most of us don’t look forward to, and something that we could all do with being as simple as possible. When you’re moving home, it’s the perfect time to take stock of what you own and if necessary, have a big clear out. The question is, what […]

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, […]

How do I work out self storage prices?

Self storage is incredibly useful when it comes to moving house, redecorating, or simply want to free up some space at home. But working out how much storage you need, and therefore how much it costs is not always easy. We’ve put together a guide for how much you can expect to pay for self-storage. […]

Keep your valuables safe with our packing hacks & tips

Whether you’re moving house, having a clear out or simply want to free up some space, it’s likely that you’re going to have to start storing some of your valuables. How you do it depends on whether you’re planning on short term or long term storage; luckily, we’ve covered both… The basics of packing valuables […]

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 […]

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