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- The JournalCosts, materials, layouts and comparisons. Written in the studio and the workshop in Birmingham.Journal
- Wardrobe over a stair bulkhead: a measured planning guideSeven dimensions, four workable layouts and the stair-safety check to make before any cabinetry is drawn.Journal
- Straight Answers: the whole strandComparisons and trade-offs with no thumb on the scale, including the ones that do not flatter us.Journal topic
- The Investment: the whole strandWhat things cost and why, with the market data cited and the studio numbers labelled as ours.Journal topic
- The Rooms: the whole strandLayouts, awkward spaces and the millimetres that decide what fits.Journal topic
- The Workshop: the whole strandHow the work is actually done, by the people who do it.Journal topic
- Anatomy 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,...The Workshop
- Do 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...The Investment
- Fitted 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...Straight Answers
- Hinged or sliding wardrobe doors? The honest trade-offsHinged doors show everything at once and seal better against dust; sliding doors win in tight rooms where a swing won’t fit. The honest answer depends on your floor space. Here are the...Straight Answers
- How 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...The Investment
- MDF, plywood, veneer or timber: an honest materials guideMost fitted wardrobes are MDF, most of the industry won’t say so, and for sprayed doors it is genuinely the right material. What matters is which board goes where, and what sits on top of...The Workshop
- Media walls: the complete cost and design guideA standard professionally built media wall costs £2,000 to £4,000 in the UK, supplied and installed, and a media wall with a fireplace runs £2,300 to £3,500. Full bespoke cabinetry walls are...The Investment
- Mould 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...Straight Answers
- Sharps 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...Straight Answers
- Small 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 Rooms
- The 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...The Investment
- Victorian 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...The Rooms
- Walk-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...The Rooms
- Wardrobes for sloped ceilings and loft roomsSloped ceilings defeat modular wardrobes because catalogues don’t come cut to your roof pitch. Drawn properly, the angle becomes the best storage in the house. Here’s how the eaves actually...The Rooms
- What 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...The Investment
- Why 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...The Workshop