Where people start
- The ceiling slopes, the skirting is deep, and nothing off the shelf fits.
- You have seen the national firms' prices and want to know what it should actually cost.
- You have been quoted for a wardrobe that stops 200mm short of the ceiling with a dust shelf on top.
- You want the inside laid out for what you own, not a rail and one shelf.
Where they end up
- Full height, wall to wall, with no dead space above or beside.
- Scribed to the skirting, the coving and the wall, so there is no gap to fill with sealant.
- An interior planned around what actually hangs in it: long hanging, double hanging, drawers, shoes.
- A price that holds, agreed in writing before the deposit.
What is behind the doors
The price is decided by the inside, not the front.
Two runs can look identical closed and differ by thousands open. Rails, drawer boxes, adjustable shelving and whether the space over the doors is used at all are what move the number.
How the job runs
Step by step, and nothing owed until step three.
- 01
The home visit
Free. Arshdeep measures the wall, checks how far out of plumb it runs, and asks what goes in the wardrobe. That last question changes the design more than the first two: a house of long coats and a house of folded knitwear want different insides.
- 02
The drawing
A drawing of the wall with the bays, the doors and the interior laid out on it. This is where you move things, and it is free to move them.
- 03
Making
Carcasses and doors are made to the sizes we measured, in the finish you chose. Nothing is cut down from a standard unit on site to make it fit.
- 04
The fit
Most wardrobes go in inside a day or two. Scribing to an uneven wall is what the time goes on, and it is the part that decides whether it looks fitted or looks placed.
What we work with
- Painted MDF, oak and walnut veneer, matt and gloss laminate
- Handleless, shaker, panelled, fluted and flat door styles
- Soft-close hinges and drawer runners throughout
- Brass, matt black, chrome and leather-pull ironmongery
- Integrated LED strip lighting where you want it
The guarantee
If anything goes wrong within 12 months of the job finishing, we come back and put it right.
Insurance
Fully covered by public liability insurance.
What you are actually paying for
Two wardrobes with the same doors can be a thousand pounds apart, and it is almost never the doors. It is the carcass material, whether the interior is planned or generic, and how much scribing the wall needs. The fitted wardrobe prices page sets out the ranges from real jobs and what sits at each end of them.
A wall that is 15mm out of plumb over two and a half metres, which is most walls in a Victorian house, takes real time to fit to. The alternative is a gap and a bead of sealant, which is what you are looking at when a wardrobe looks almost right.
Getting the inside right
The outside is what visitors see. The inside is what you use twice a day.
Before drawing anything, Arshdeep asks what is going in: how many long items, how much folded, whether shoes live in there, whether there is a suitcase problem. Long hanging needs about 1,400mm, double hanging about 1,000mm a rail, and drawers are worth more than shelves for almost everything except jumpers.
Getting that split right is free at the drawing stage and impossible afterwards.
Fluted doors and a mirrored centre, one recent job
The photograph above is a full wall of fitted wardrobes in a deep sage green, floor to ceiling either side of the bed. The two outer doors on each side carry a fluted, reeded finish, and the middle section breaks the run with a full-height mirror framed the same colour, backlit along the top edge, sitting over a bank of eight drawers. Reeded and fluted doors are one of the pricier finishes we offer, because each groove is machined rather than moulded, and they read best used sparingly, as here, rather than across every door in the room.
Common questions
Asked often enough to answer here.
How much do fitted wardrobes cost?
Most of ours land between £2,000 and £5,000. A single alcove in a painted finish is at the bottom end. A full wall with mirrored sliding doors, internal lighting and a drawer bank is at the top. The full ranges are on the fitted wardrobes cost page.
How long does it take?
Two to four weeks from the drawing being signed off to the fit, because everything is made to your sizes. The fitting itself is usually one to three days.
Can you fit around a sloping ceiling or a chimney breast?
That is most of what we do. Sloping ceilings, chimney breasts, boxed-in pipes and bulkheads are the reason people want fitted rather than freestanding, and the doors get cut to the rake rather than stopped short of it.
Do the doors slide or open outwards?
Whichever suits the room. Hinged doors give you the full opening and cost less. Sliding doors need no clearance in front, which matters in a small bedroom, and there is a separate page on them.
Will it look like part of the house or like furniture?
Part of the house, if it is done properly. That means scribed to the skirting and the wall, painted to match or deliberately contrast, and taken to the ceiling rather than stopped below it.
Do I have to clear the room?
The wall the wardrobe goes on needs to be clear, and the bed usually needs pulling out. Everything else can stay. We put dust sheets down and clear up at the end of each day.
Can you do just one alcove?
Yes. Single alcoves are one of the most common jobs we do and one of the best value ones, because you are using a space that was doing nothing.
Where we fit them
Fitted Wardrobes across West London and the Home Counties.
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