Built in wardrobes, what are the options?

[Mark300zx]

Moving into my flat soon and want to install some built in wardrobes, have had Ikea recommended to me twice and wondered what the other options are?

TIA

[RATATTAK]

B&Q do some fairly nice stuff if you're a DIYer

[Evolved]

I did the ikea route on our previous refurb. Built out the opening to give them a ‘fitted’ look. Well chuffed with the results as they were a quarter of the price of actual fitted robes.

[Harry Flashman]

I've been looking at this after getting some frankly hilarious quotes for a fitted dressing room in our house. Going to base it around 2 x 3m wardrobe runs, and have other units custom made to fit the gaps around these.

Using cabinets from DIYkitchens.com and adapting them would be around £1800 for each 3m run. Hmmm.

IKEA's dedicated stuff, the same length, about £750 per run.

So we will be doing the latter, and having some other stuff made up around these,

[Evolved]

Also did a run of smaller cupboards which were admittedly much higher quality than Ikea, but dearer from diywardrobes.co.uk. These were proper 18mm carcasses with solid doors and all fixtures etc. If you can stretch, I’d look there too.

Can’t find any pics of that install I’m afraid.

[Harry Flashman]

Evolved said:

Also did a run of smaller cupboards which were admittedly much higher quality than Ikea, but dearer from diywardrobes.co.uk. These were proper 18mm carcasses with solid doors and all fixtures etc. If you can stretch, I’d look there too.

Can’t find any pics of that install I’m afraid.

Thanks for the tip, and hope the OP can use it too. I'll have a look...

[Evolved]

No problem. The reason I used them in the loft was the custom template and build service. They will literally make to your spec, probably ideal for your situation.

[Mark300zx]

One complication is I want mirrored doors as the bedroom is small, ikea don't seem to offer this!

[Evolved]

Mark300zx said:

One complication is I want mirrored doors as the bedroom is small, ikea don't seem to offer this!

Sure, coz the room is small

Check the other link out, can’t remember their range of doors now.

[mattfuey]

Ikea do, or definitely did, mirrored doors on their stuff.

Used it when I moved in to my old flat about 4 years ago.

[Mark300zx]

mattfuey said:

Ikea do, or definitely did, mirrored doors on their stuff.

Used it when I moved in to my old flat about 4 years ago.

Thanks you're right, but I am after 80cm wide which they don't

[mikeiow]

I hate the space wasted in wardrobes....we ripped out ancient run out a few weeks back, & I used galvanised metal & some ikea units to build a simple run with a few feet more space than we could have got in wardrobes.
Then got a run of nice mirrored doors from a local outfit.
Total cost: around £1,100 for about 3.4m

[mattfuey]

Mark300zx said:

Thanks you're right, but I am after 80cm wide which they don't

Ah I see, makes sense.

What about finding some 800 wide blank doors, get some mirror cut by a glazier and stick with adhesive?

[triggerh4ppy]

Ive just done this in my house

I used internals from B and q darwin to create exactly what I wanted (had to cut them at the top to get a perfect fit.

and then bought some sliding doors online (sliding doors direct). Think it looks great and was less than half the price anyone else quoted.

Edited by triggerh4ppy on Friday 10th May 07:47

[Mark300zx]

mattfuey said:

Ah I see, makes sense.

What about finding some 800 wide blank doors, get some mirror cut by a glazier and stick with adhesive?

Thanks, I have done that with a wardrobe in my current flat, that was custom and we had concerns with the weight and got some specific hinges, my only concern with the prebuilt stuff is again getting the right hinges and if they are premade adapting them to the correct hinges!

[V8RX7]

MDF to paint into wall colour, with standard internal doors or ikea doors

Big cheap sliders from ikea come with the rail and can't be beaten IMO then make your own internal with mdf or conti board

Or I've just bought circa £1k sliders from ebay for £100ish - I did this for all 5 bedrooms in my house - savings really add up

Here's my bedroom

Edited by V8RX7 on Friday 10th May 09:23

[Mark300zx]

Thanks for the slider suggestion but having had them in the past I get a touch frustrated with not being able to view the entire wardrobe at once and then getting into a Closeau/Kato type battle with the sliders to find what I want

[mandos_01]

Evolved said:

Sure, coz the room is small

Check the other link out, can’t remember their range of doors now.

[Evolved]

mandos_01 said:

Evolved said:

Sure, coz the room is small

Check the other link out, can’t remember their range of doors now.

Glad someone got my humour

[V8RX7]

Mark300zx said:

Thanks for the slider suggestion but having had them in the past I get a touch frustrated with not being able to view the entire wardrobe at once and then getting into a Closeau/Kato type battle with the sliders to find what I want

Ah, mirrored, hinged doors - I did that at my first house - I built the cupboard frame in cls and mdf and used standard internal doors, then stuck a mirror on them and placed a bead around it to make it look factory fitted. MDF painted wall colour.

The doors were approx £20ea mirrors £10ea and they are far more substantial than the ones usually supplied.

Edited by V8RX7 on Saturday 11th May 09:30