Building a wardrobe to fit a space - anyone done it?

[CoolHands]

I want to build a wardrobe to hang clothes in the space below. To fit between the wall and the lightswitch, and go into the corner. I am think perhaps sliding doors? Because of the room layout not shown, there is nowhere else at all to put a wardrobe or any other furniture (other than bed).

I realise the left side will not be accessible where it will sit behind the chest of drawers - does anyone know if there are fancy swing out rails or anything like you can get for kitchen units these days? Does anyone know of / used any decent suppliers of sliding doors, sliders, rail units etc or any other advice. I might pop in to ikea to have a look, I'm not averse to them but obviously I have a limited size to play with (107cm from corner to lightswitch, 48cm from wall to edge of chest of drawers, ceiling 202cm high). I am fairly competent with a saw

cheers

[jamesc_1729]

Hey

I've built a built-in wardrobe in my bedroom. I used 3x2 studwork which I then plasterboarded and had a plasterer skim. I then hung some wickes louvred doors with architrave around the reveal.

With reference to your picture I don't think the space you are envisaging is ideal, given leaving the chest of drawers in the same space enforces some dead space in the wardrobe, but it is your prerogative.

I'm not sure what I would do with that space myself.

James

[CoolHands]

yeah cheers. In that case do (you or) anyone have any ideas about if I got rid of the chest of drawers, what could I do with that space to combine both wardrobe plus some drawers in a more useable format? That is the only space available which is annoying, but nothing I can do. I have constantly had this problem but it's a small flat.

[mattdaniels]

Would the chest of drawers fit along the light switch wall and leave space at the end ? I'm thinking along the lines of the wardrobe being a narrow box containing a clothes rail on castors that could slide out in to the room.

[paulrockliffe]

L-shaped wardrobe with drawers at the bottom?

[MajorProblem]

Can't you just box that corner off? Move the lightswitch to the new wall and place doors on the same face as the rad?

Might be dark in there though...

[smashie]

Ditch the drawers, build a full height wardrobe and put some drawers in the bottom of it.

[Gaspode]

You could cut the check of drawers down a bit, maybe lose one of the drawers, and build a wardrobe on top of/around it? You could go the full width of the left wall and put in a couple of shelves for shoes and stuff to the right of the chest.

[jamesc_1729]

Agree the best thing would probably to ditch the drawers and do an l-shaped build-in , with a clever way of utilising the corner space like you see in kitchen units. Obviously you would have halve drawers halve rails inside the new scheme.

[Renovation]

I used to use stud and plasterboard but I find MDF when painted with a roller looks identical so I use that.

I get sliding doors from Ikea or B&Q (they have several ranges)

I use the ikea sliding drawers etc too

[CoolHands]

ok cheers. Might go to ikea later for some inspiration. On a Saturday too! Arrgghh

[Renovation]

CoolHands said:

ok cheers. Might go to ikea later for some inspiration. On a Saturday too! Arrgghh

I can never find anything in there - I tend to research online, then go in and buy.

IIRC it's their PAX system and the bits that go with it.

You save a fortune by not using their chipboard and get it the size you want.

[Alex L]

We had the wardrobes in our dressing room custom built by a narrow boat builder. Finished in American Walnut and massively over engineered, difficult to gauge scale but they're over 8 feet tall and also had to build them around a light switch. Have the same number of wardrobes on the other wall and they all accommodate double hanging plus a shelf around the top and bottom.

You might be surprised how reasonably priced it is to have built to your spec

Edited by Alex L on Saturday 30th August 15:58

[Renovation]

Alex L said:

You might be surprised how reasonably priced it is to have built to your spec

Surprise us - how much ?

[CoolHands]

well back from ikea & basically as both walls are quite short (from corner to light switch 107cm, or from corner to err... exterior corner 128cm) it's going to have to be a bog standard two-door 1 meter wide wardrobe. The do quite good drawer units which fit inside the lower portion of the wardrobe so combines all you need really. Cheers all. this sort of thing but might get mirrored doors



using a planner:

Edited by CoolHands on Saturday 30th August 20:46

[Alex L]

Renovation said:

Surprise us - how much ?

3x as many as you can see for just over £3k. We had Sharps quote us £9k after discount

[CoolHands]

just to finish this thread if anyones interested, I ended up using a wardrobe from IKEA that was the right height and 1 metre wide. It ended up being the best solution, inside it has drawers for the lower section. It fitted in either orientation but this one was the best in the end