Where people start
- You have a third bedroom too small to be a bedroom and too big to waste.
- Two people are sharing one wardrobe and it is not working.
- You want open storage but not a room that looks permanently untidy.
- You are not sure whether it will cost you value when you come to sell.
Where they end up
- Every wall used, corner to corner, including above the door.
- Hanging, drawers, shoes and folded storage split for what you actually own.
- Lighting that works when you are getting dressed at six in the morning.
- A room that looks ordered rather than exposed, because it was laid out first.
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
Working out if the room takes it
A walk-in needs about 900mm of clear floor to stand and turn in, plus 600mm of depth for hanging on each wall it uses. Arshdeep measures and tells you straight whether the room takes bays on one side, two sides or three.
- 02
Counting what goes in
This is the part people skip and regret. Metres of long hanging, metres of short, how many drawers, how many pairs of shoes. The count decides the layout, and the layout decides whether it works.
- 03
The drawing
Elevations for each wall so you can see the bays, the rails and the drawer banks before anything is made.
- 04
Building
Carcasses, bays, rails, drawers and lighting. If a stud wall or a door move is needed, that happens first.
What we work with
- Oak, walnut and painted carcasses, open or with doors
- Brass, black and chrome hanging rails
- Soft-close drawer boxes with optional velvet-lined inserts
- Pull-out shoe racks, trouser racks and valet rails
- LED strip and sensor-triggered lighting
The guarantee
12 months on everything we make and fit, including the running gear and the lighting we install.
Insurance
Fully covered by public liability insurance.
The count that decides everything
Before any drawing, Arshdeep asks for four numbers: metres of long hanging, metres of short hanging, number of drawers, pairs of shoes.
People underestimate all four, usually by about a third. A wardrobe designed off the underestimate is full on the day it goes in and overflowing within a year, which is how you end up back where you started with a chair covered in clothes.
Three ways to get one
The box room. Smallest bedroom, wall to wall bays, a mirror on the end wall. The most common and usually the best value.
The partition. A stud wall across the end of a long bedroom, with a door or an opening into the dressing space behind.
The en-suite trade. Occasionally the honest answer is that the space would serve you better as an en-suite, and we will say so.
Common questions
Asked often enough to answer here.
How small a room can become a walk-in wardrobe?
About 1.8m by 2m will take bays down one long wall and the end wall, with room to stand. Below that you are better off with a wall of fitted wardrobes in the bedroom itself, and we will say so rather than sell you a corridor.
What does a walk-in wardrobe cost?
Most land between £3,000 and £5,000, which is the top of our wardrobe range, because there is simply more carcass and more interior than a wall of doors. A small single-wall conversion can come in nearer £2,000.
Open shelving or doors?
Open is cheaper, looks better in photographs and needs you to be tidy. Doors cost more and forgive everything. A lot of rooms end up mixed: open hanging, drawers behind fronts.
Does turning a bedroom into a dressing room hurt the resale value?
It can, if it is the third bedroom in a three-bedroom house and the change is not reversible. We build so it can be taken out and the room put back, and it is worth thinking about before you start.
Can you build the stud wall as well?
Yes. Partitioning off the end of a long bedroom is one of the most common ways we make a dressing room, and doing the wall and the joinery together means the bays land exactly where the wall wants them.
What lighting do you recommend?
LED strip under each shelf, on a sensor if you are getting dressed while somebody is asleep next door. Overhead light alone puts your own shadow into the bays, which is why so many wardrobes feel dark inside.
The next step