Where people start
- The wardrobes are one colour and everything else in the room is another.
- The wall above the bed is dead space and the room has nowhere left for storage.
- You want a dressing table but there is no wall left to put one against.
- The room is small and every freestanding piece makes it feel smaller.
Where they end up
- One finish, one set of handles, one hand across the whole room.
- The wall above the bed used for bridging units instead of a picture.
- Floating bedsides with reading lights and sockets built in, so nothing sits on the floor.
- A dressing table integrated into the run rather than pushed into a corner.
How the job runs
Step by step, and nothing owed until step three.
- 01
Planning the whole room
Arshdeep measures the room, not just the wardrobe wall, and works out what the other three walls can carry. Over-bed bridging, floating bedsides and a dressing niche usually come out of walls people had written off.
- 02
One drawing, four elevations
You see each wall drawn, so you can judge the room as a whole rather than approve a wardrobe and hope the rest follows.
- 03
Making
Everything is made together, in the same finish, from the same batch. That is the practical reason a fitted bedroom matches and a room assembled over three years does not.
- 04
Fitting
Wardrobes first, then bridging, then bedsides and any dressing table. Sockets and reading lights get positioned before the units go on the wall, which is the bit that has to be decided early.
What we work with
- Painted MDF, oak, walnut and laminate, matched across every piece
- Over-bed bridging units and headboard panelling
- Floating bedside cabinets with integrated lighting and USB sockets
- Built-in dressing tables with backlit mirrors
- Smoked-mirror inlays and black-framed door profiles
- Soft-close hinges and drawer runners throughout
The guarantee
12 months on everything we make and fit.
Insurance
Fully covered by public liability insurance.
The wall everybody forgets
The wall above the bed is usually the largest unused surface in a bedroom. Bridging units across it, joining the wardrobes on either side, add a lot of storage without taking a single square inch of floor.
It only works if it is planned with the wardrobes rather than added afterwards, because the heights have to line through.
Matching, honestly
A painted finish can be matched again in a few years’ time, near enough, if you have the colour reference. A timber veneer often cannot: grain and tone vary batch to batch.
If you know the room will be done in stages and you want it to match, choose paint. If you want the veneer, do it in one go. Either way, the wardrobes are usually the largest part of the bill, so it is worth knowing what fitted wardrobes cost before deciding how much of the room to do at once.
A wardrobe wall in St Albans
The photograph above is a recent job in St Albans: six full-height doors across one wall, in a pale grey finish with a woven, linen-like texture. Each door is outlined in a thin black frame, and a band of smoked mirror runs across all six at the same height, so the eye reads one continuous line instead of six separate doors. It was taken on the day of the fit, before the new floor went down, which is why the mirror is catching the room still full of tools.
A detail like that band only lines up if every door is made to the same measured height, and it is the kind of thing that carries on to the rest of the room: the same frame and the same mirror on the bedsides or a dressing table is what makes a bedroom look planned rather than bought.
Common questions
Asked often enough to answer here.
What does a fitted bedroom cost?
A full room with wardrobes, bridging, bedsides and a dressing table usually sits in the £3,500 to £5,000 range, at the upper end of our wardrobe pricing. Doing it in one go is cheaper than doing it in three visits, because it is made and delivered once.
Can I do it in stages?
You can, and plenty of people do wardrobes first. Tell us at the drawing stage so the later pieces are designed in, and keep a note of the exact finish. Matching a paint or a veneer batch two years later is not always possible.
Will bridging units over the bed make the room feel closed in?
Done shallow, no. Bridging is usually 300mm deep against 600mm for the wardrobes, so it sits well above head height and reads as a shelf line rather than a low ceiling.
Can you build in the reading lights and sockets?
Yes, and it is worth doing. Floating bedsides with a light and a USB socket built in mean nothing trails on the floor. The positions have to be agreed before fitting because the cable runs go in first.
Do you do headboard panelling?
Yes, in the same finish as the rest, fluted or flat. It is one of the cheapest things on the list and it does a lot of the work in making a bedroom look finished.
Is fitted furniture worth it in a small bedroom?
It is worth more in a small bedroom than a large one. Freestanding furniture wastes the gaps around it, and in a small room the gaps are the room.
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