Building Your Ideal Wardrobe for the New Year: Our Top Tips

If you are looking to make 2023 the year when you finally have the beautiful, fitted wardrobe of your dreams, complete with just the right storage space for all of the clothes and shoes you love, then here are some tips to help you through the stages of planning it, designing it, and getting it installed in your home:

Planning the Space

A fitted wardrobe makes a big difference to the room, and your design will need to fit perfectly with your walls, and if it reaches the ceiling, also account for any slopes or other features there. The first step in planning and designing a new wardrobe then, is to decide exactly where you want it to go and consider things like alcoves that will end up being in the wardrobe’s interior. You’ll need to take very accurate measurements of things like the angles of corners in your room - not everything that looks like a perfect right angle actually is, and this will affect the carpentry and design of the wardrobe. This may also be a good time to look for good handymen London who can help with the planning and eventually do the installation when you’re ready - you can find the people you need at MyBuilder.com.   

Consider the Style of Doors Early in the Design Phase

The doors are the next thing to consider. You can either go for sliding doors or doors that open outwards. The amount of space you have in your room is important to consider here. Wardrobes that open outwards will require more free space to give you access to fully open them. Sliding doors therefore make a better choice if the wardrobe will be, for instance, fairly close to the foot of your bed.

The type of doors is not the only consideration to make at this stage though - you should also consider things like whether you want mirrors. Mirrors on the outside of sliding doors can make the room look bigger, but some people are not comfortable with having big, full-length mirrors that are always visible in their bedroom, so prefer the option of no mirrors on the doors, or mirrors on the inside of doors that open outwards. Glass or frosted glass sliding doors can also create the effect of more light and space in the room; however, they can lead to a less minimalist look, as you’ll be able to make out the colours and shapes of the things inside the wardrobe. The look you are going for therefore plays a big part in what type of doors you should choose.

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Consider Your Room’s Aesthetics Both Now, and in the Future

Naturally, you’ll want to design a wardrobe that fits with your room’s decor. However, it is worth considering that a fitted wardrobe is a permanent fixture that will probably be in place for many redecorations to come. If you want to sell your home at any time in the future, you also want to consider whether the wardrobe will be easy to integrate with someone else’s taste. This means that if you have an especially bold aesthetic in your room, it may still be best to pick a wardrobe that isn’t too ornate or too tied in to the current style you’ve chosen for the room’s decor.

A classic mirrored wardrobe can be a good choice for this reason, too, because it will go well with any style choices you make in the future as well as literally reflecting your current colour scheme and style. If you don’t want mirrors, plain wood or neutral styles like white doors can be a good choice, or you could opt for a wardrobe where the outer features would be easy and inexpensive to change in the future, for instance by painting the doors or replacing the door handles with a different style.

Design the Internal Storage Space

When it comes to designing the interior of your wardrobe, there are lots of different types of storage you can include, so you want to think about how to make the best use of the size of space you have to keep your clothes and shoes easy to access and neatly stored. You’ll almost certainly want rails, but as well as these, consider that you can have drawers, shelves, and shoe racks inside your wardrobe to make better use of the space.

Prepare the Room for the Installation Work

When you’re ready to have the wardrobe installed, first plan how you’ll move things around to make the room accessible for the installation to take place. You may need to move your bed out of the room, for example, so that the pieces of the new wardrobe can be brought in and there is enough space to work.

These are some things to consider throughout the stages of planning and getting your great new fitted wardrobe!