Made to measure sliding wardrobes from £999 — free home design visit worth £499
Mirror, glass or solid doors, built to your room and fitted in a day. Here is how to work out which one you want.
From £999, made in our own workshop in Cilfynydd.
Before you get as far as choosing doors, it is worth deciding whether a fitted wardrobe is the right thing at all. Here is the honest version.
A hinged door needs around two feet of clear floor in front of it before it will open, and in most bedrooms that is the strip you walk down to get to the bed. A sliding door needs none. In a small room that is not a small difference, it is often the difference between being able to walk round the bed and having to shuffle past it.
No swing, no lost walking space
A freestanding wardrobe stops short of the ceiling and leaves a gap at one end. You paid for the floor area underneath it and you get none of that height. A fitted run goes to the ceiling and to the wall, so the space above your head that currently holds a suitcase and some dust becomes proper storage.
Full height, wall to wall
A flatpack wardrobe is cheaper on the day. It is also chipboard on a laminate floor, and most of them get replaced inside five or six years, usually because a door has dropped or the back has come away. Ours are built to stay where they are put. Whether that maths works for you depends on how long you are staying.
Bought once, not three times
Sloping ceilings, chimney breasts, alcoves, a floor that runs downhill at one end. You cannot buy anything in a shop that fits those, because everything in a shop is made to a standard size. Every run we build is measured to the room it is going in, which is why the awkward corners are usually where we find the most storage.
Built to the room you actually have
If you are renting, or you know you will be moving within a year or two, a freestanding wardrobe you can take with you is usually the smarter choice. If you are selling further down the line, a fitted wardrobe typically adds value to the house, so you are likely to get back what you paid. We would rather tell you that now than sell you something that does not fit your plans.
If you are staying put, a fitted run will change how the room works. If you are selling on, it can add back what it cost.
The doors are the decision that changes how the room feels. Everything behind them is the same quality whichever you pick.
The ones we are best known for. A wall of mirror throws light back across the room, which is why a small or north-facing bedroom feels noticeably bigger with them in. You also stop needing a separate mirror on the wall, which is one less thing taking up space. They show dust and fingerprints more than a solid door, so they suit people who do not mind a wipe down now and then.
See mirror sliding doors
Clear or frosted. Clear glass gives you a clean, modern look and you can see what is in there without opening anything, though it does mean the inside needs to stay reasonably tidy. Frosted softens everything behind it while still keeping the room light. Every glass door we make is safety-backed to British standards.
See glass sliding doors
Solid doors in a range of colours and finishes. These are the ones that disappear into a room, because you can match them to the walls or the existing furniture and the wardrobes stop announcing themselves. No reflections and nothing on show, so they suit a room that is already bright, or a bedroom where you would rather the storage was not the first thing you notice.
See solid panel doorsThe doors are the choice. The inside is not really a fourth option, it is the part everybody gets. Hanging rails, shelves, drawers, shoe racks, laid out around what you actually own rather than a standard configuration. We work it out with you at the design visit.
See internal storage
Every run measured, made and fitted by us.
The same three doors, compared honestly, row by row.
Mirror, almost always. It is the single biggest difference you can make to how big a small room feels.
Mirror or clear glass, to move what light there is around the room.
Any of the three. This is where solid doors come into their own, because you are not relying on them for light.
All three work. The doors matter less here than how the run is built, and that is what the design visit is for.
All our own jobs, fitted in homes across South Wales. There are more of them in the wardrobe gallery.
From £999
Sliding wardrobes start at £999, whichever doors you choose. What you pay comes down to the width of the run and how the inside is fitted out rather than which door you pick, so choose the one you actually want and we will work the price out from there.
We make everything ourselves at the workshop in Cilfynydd, so there is nobody in the middle adding a margin. That is how we start where we do, right across the areas of South Wales we cover.
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This month only.
£250 off any full wall of wardrobes
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Free internal storage upgrade worth £200
With any full-wall run.
Spread the cost from £62 a month
Finance is not currently offered, shown here as an illustration only.
To confirmThat is the reputation cheap sliding wardrobes gave the whole product, and it is a fair thing to ask. It comes down to the quality of the track and how carefully it is set, which is the part that gets rushed on a flatpack fit. We buy the runners ourselves and set them level on the day, and they are covered by the two-year warranty. [TO CONFIRM — track brand or specification, if the client wants to name it.]
No. They slide across each other rather than out into the room, so the whole run sits flat against the wall. That is the reason they work in rooms where a hinged door has nowhere to open.
To confirm[TO CONFIRM — whether mirror, glass and solid can be combined in one run, and any restrictions.]
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To confirm[TO CONFIRM — maximum width, and the point at which a run needs to be split.]
To confirmFloor to ceiling in most rooms, which is the point of having them fitted. [TO CONFIRM — maximum height and any limits.]
Yes, and it is one of the jobs we like most. An attic room or a bedroom in a converted loft usually has a run of low ceiling that nothing off the shelf will fit under. We build to the roofline, so the low end becomes drawers or shoe storage rather than dead space.
To confirm[TO CONFIRM — how the client handles skirting, coving and picture rails when fitting a run.]
To confirmYes. Chimney breasts and alcoves are normal in the houses round here and we build around them as a matter of course. Radiators and windows depend on where they sit, so it is one to raise at the design visit. [TO CONFIRM — how radiators are usually handled.]
To confirm[TO CONFIRM — whether they fit landings, home offices, box rooms and other spaces.]
Most people are not, and that is what the free design visit is for.
To confirmWe bring samples, measure the room, and you can see the difference between the doors in your own light before you decide anything.