The Journal

Wardrobes, rooms
and what they cost.

Costs, materials, layouts and comparisons. Written in the studio and the workshop in Birmingham.

New measured planning guideWardrobe over a stair bulkhead: measure the awkward part properly.Seven dimensions, four workable layouts and the stair-safety check to make before any cabinetry is drawn.Read the guide

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Cream fitted bedroom with wardrobes and soft furnishings

The Investment27 August 20264 minHow much do fitted wardrobes cost? An honest UK guideBespoke fitted wardrobes typically cost £1,500 to £10,000+ in the UK, depending on size, construction and finish. Here is the published market data, what actually moves the number, and how to read any quote. Including ours.Read the guide

Fitted wardrobes wrapping a window with a window seat and drawers beneath, real installation

Straight Answers27 Aug 20266 minMould behind a wardrobe: the cause, the fix and the detail to design inMould behind a wardrobe is usually a cold-wall and still-air problem, but not always. Move the furniture before you clean it, look for the moisture pattern, fix the source, then design the replacement so air can keep moving. Painting over the patch is not a repair.

Photo-real render of a taupe dressing suite under a loft ceiling

The Rooms27 Aug 20263 minWalk-in wardrobe layouts: what fits in what spaceEvery walk-in wardrobe is one sum: 600mm for the storage, 900mm for the human, repeated for each side you want. Run the sum before you fall in love with a photograph. Here is what honestly fits at each room size, from the box room to the island, and the point below which a walk-in is the wrong answer.

Photo-real render of classic fitted cabinetry in a period-style bedroom

The Rooms27 Aug 20264 minVictorian alcoves: fitting wardrobes to period wallsA Victorian bedroom hands you two alcoves either side of a chimney breast and dares you to fill them. Modular furniture cannot, because no two alcoves in Britain are the same shape, and neither side of the same chimney matches the other. This is what fitting furniture to hundred-year-old walls actually involves.

The Rooms27 Aug 20264 minSmall bedroom, full wardrobe: layouts that actually workA small bedroom does not need less wardrobe. It needs the wardrobe drawn around three fixed enemies: the door swing, the bed, and the window. Here are the layouts that beat each one, with the millimetre logic behind them, from rooms we have actually drawn.

Pale freestanding chest of drawers made in our workshop

Straight Answers27 Aug 20263 minFitted or freestanding? Which wardrobe your room is asking forFitted storage uses every millimetre to the ceiling and becomes part of the house. Freestanding furniture moves house when you do. We make both, so this is the rare version of the comparison with no thumb on the scale: where each wins, what the listing data actually says, and the hybrid most bedrooms secretly want.

Carcass construction mid-fit on site, before the doors go on

The Workshop27 Aug 20263 minAnatomy of a wardrobe that lasts thirty yearsWardrobes do not fail all at once. They fail at six parts, in a known order: hinges, runners, rails, backs, edges, and the join to the wall. Here is each one, what quality looks like there, and why everything that decides a wardrobe’s lifespan is invisible on the day it is fitted.

Run of grey fitted wardrobe doors with brass handles, real installation

The Workshop27 Aug 20263 minWhy we spray every finish (and what “hand-painted” hides)A sprayed finish is paint applied as an even mist in a controlled workshop, coat after flatted coat. Hand-painted is a brush, on site, in whatever conditions the day brings. One of these is a romantic phrase and the other is how furniture gets a surface that lasts. Here is the difference, told by people who own the spray guns.

Navy fitted wardrobes in a panelled bedroom, real installation

The Investment27 Aug 20263 minDo fitted wardrobes add value to a house? An honest read of the numbersThe most quoted study says homes listed with walk-in wardrobes carry a £103,798 premium. It is a real study, and almost everyone quotes it wrong. Here is what the data actually shows, what reliably sells houses, and the honest answer to whether storage pays you back.

Bespoke grey drawer boxes in a fitted wardrobe interior, detail of our making

The Investment27 Aug 20263 minThe five levers that move the price of a bespoke roomTwo bespoke wardrobes can look identical in a photograph and sit £10,000 apart on paper. The difference lives in five decisions: footprint, construction, finish, interior, and the house itself. Here is each lever, which way it moves, and the order to decide them in.

Dark wood dressing corner with LED-lit mirror and shelves, real installation

The Investment27 Aug 20264 minWhat a walk-in wardrobe really costsA walk-in wardrobe fit-out costs £5,600 to £11,500 plus VAT in the UK, £8,550 on average, per Checkatrade’s guide. Our own bedroom and dressing room schemes land between £20k and £40k. The full picture, with sources.

Matt grey fitted wardrobes with lit marble-backed display niches and oak floor, real installation

Straight Answers27 Aug 20264 minSharps vs Hammonds vs a bespoke manufacturerThe two biggest names in British fitted furniture, compared honestly with the bespoke alternative, by one of the bespoke makers. Where the nationals genuinely win, where bespoke does, and the questions that decide it whoever you choose.

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The Look Book

Rooms, up close.

Finished projects, the finishes in detail, and what each one involved. A designer sends it with a note.

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