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Six-door handleless fitted wardrobes in a taupe finish against a deep blue wall, lit from above by downlights

Ealing, West London

Fitted wardrobes in Ealing

Ealing has the tallest rooms we regularly work in, and that changes the design. A wardrobe that stops at 2.1m in a room with a 3m ceiling looks like furniture. Taken all the way up, it looks like the house.

Area
Ealing, Greater London
Postcodes
W5, W13, W7, UB6
From us
About 5 miles from our Hayes base. Often the same-day visit.
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About Ealing

Why the joinery here is not the joinery two towns over.

Plan of a Victorian bedroom in Ealing Looking down on a late-Victorian or Edwardian bedroom. A deep chimney breast projects into the room with a narrow, deep alcove either side. The window is on the outside wall and the door opens against the opposite wall. The wardrobes fill both alcoves, deep enough to hang across the recess rather than along it. 1m deep Window Chimney breast Wardrobe, hung across Wardrobe, hung across
Plan, looking down Deeper chimney breast, narrower alcoves. The recess is often deep enough to hang across rather than along, which is what makes these rooms worth the money.

Ealing earned the name Queen of the Suburbs by being built well and early. Much of W5 and W13 is late Victorian and Edwardian, and the rooms are noticeably taller than anything in the interwar suburbs a few miles west. Two-nine and three metres are common, against about two-four in a 1930s semi.

That single fact changes every wardrobe here. A standard-height unit leaves nearly a metre of wall above it, so we take the carcasses to the ceiling and put the least-used storage in a top box, which is the only sensible use for that height.

Ealing houses also have deep Victorian skirting, picture rails and moulded architrave, all of which have to be scribed to or run across the front of a unit or the joinery will read as an afterthought. Parts of the borough sit in conservation areas. Brentham Garden Suburb in Pitshanger is the strictest, and it is worth checking before anything visible from the street changes, though internal joinery is generally not affected.

One more thing worth settling before a survey here. Original pine floorboards in these houses are rarely level, and the fall usually runs toward the bay, which is where the joists have moved most. A run set out from the floor shows that fall in the door gaps within a metre. We set out from a laser line and scribe the plinth to the floor instead.

  • Whether the floor falls toward the bay, and by how much
  • Cornice, picture rail and architrave the joinery has to scribe to or run past
  • Ceiling height, which here is usually generous enough for a bridging unit
  • Whether the property sits in a conservation area, Brentham especially

Also covering West Ealing · Northfields · Hanwell · Acton · Greenford · Perivale · Northolt

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Height is the Ealing decision

In a 1930s house you decide about doors. In an Ealing Edwardian you decide about height first, because it is the thing that makes the difference between joinery that belongs and joinery that was delivered.

Carcass to the ceiling, top box above the hanging, and the doors either full height or split with a horizontal line that picks up something else in the room: a picture rail, a window head.

Working with the mouldings

Deep skirting is a gift and a nuisance. It has to be either cut back cleanly and returned into the unit, or run whole across the front. The second reads better and costs a little more.

Either way it is a decision made on the visit, not on site with a saw in hand.

And in the living room

The same height question comes up downstairs with media walls: take the panelling to the ceiling, or stop it at the picture rail so the room keeps its proportions. It is decided on the visit, with the room in front of us.

Prices are the same in Ealing as everywhere else we work. For the ranges, taken from jobs actually done, see what fitted wardrobes cost.

Common questions

Asked often enough to answer here.

Which parts of Ealing do you cover?

W5, W13 and W7, which covers Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Northfields and Hanwell, plus UB6 for Greenford and Perivale. It is five miles from Hayes, so it is one of the areas we can usually get to for a visit the same week.

Our ceilings are three metres. Should wardrobes go all the way up?

Yes, in almost every case. A wardrobe stopped at standard height in an Ealing bedroom leaves a metre of dead wall and a shelf that collects dust. Taking it to the ceiling with a top box for suitcases and out-of-season clothes is more storage for very little extra cost.

Can you match our original skirting and picture rail?

Yes, and in a period Ealing house it is the detail that decides whether the joinery looks original or looks added. We match the profile and run it across the front of the unit rather than stopping it either side.

We are in a conservation area. Does that affect fitted wardrobes?

Internal joinery is generally not affected by conservation area status, which controls what is visible from outside. If a job touches a window reveal or anything external, we will say so and tell you to check with Ealing Council first.

Do you do kitchens in Ealing?

Yes, kitchens and bedrooms both, and Ealing period kitchens often benefit from the same trick: tall units to the ceiling instead of standard wall cupboards with a gap above.

How much do fitted wardrobes cost in Ealing?

Between £2,000 and £5,000 for most jobs. Ealing wardrobes tend to sit slightly higher within that range purely because the rooms are taller and there is more of everything.

What we build in Ealing

Everything below is fitted in Ealing homes, by the same man who measures it.

The next step

Arshdeep can be in Ealing to measure this week. None of it costs you anything.

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