Bespoke Wardrobe Ideas for Awkward Spaces

Standard flat-pack wardrobe units are designed for fitting in standard rooms and often do not make effective use of the space in the less-than-ideal areas of your home. This article outlines how to make best use of the unusual areas and create a functional fitted wardrobe in your home.

Sloping Ceilings

Low eaves walls don’t have to be a waste space in sloping ceiling rooms. By building the unit down to the pitch of the room, a low eaves wall can contain a run of drawers or even a section of the room for storing shoes. Above this, hang clothing in the taller section of the room. Instead of swinging open and requiring clearance, use sliding doors.

Alcoves

In corner alcoves use a full height wardrobe with a hanging area on top and shelves or drawer stacks below the hanging. Make sure that wardrobe goes to the full length of the alcove on both sides and touches the plasterwork to prevent a deep cavity from forming.

Chimney Breast Recesses

Two recesses sit either side of a chimney breast, almost always of different widths. They can be suited with open shelving or even a simple rail, hung with a curtain to create a very stylish section of a wardrobe. A useful reference for Bespoke Fitted Wardrobes is //lamco-design.co.uk/bespoke-fitted-wardrobes/.

Under-Stair Voids

Because of the changing depth of the under-stair void, pull-out drawers or even just a number of angled shelves will probably work better than fixed-width storage like rails. Even a single 30 cm wide section could be used to store folded jumpers.

Period Rooms with Non-Standard Angles

The walls of older buildings are rarely straight and normally crooked. This is where fitted wardrobes come in as the ideal solution. By having the wardrobes scribed to the walls of the room they will not have unsightly gaps between them and the walls. For those with listed buildings or in conservation areas of special historical interest, there are certain guidelines that must be adhered to when making alterations to the interior of a property.

Off-the-shelf wardrobe units for awkward shaped rooms are almost always going to have some form of gap left somewhere.