Fitted Wardrobes Bingham
Bingham has roughly tripled in size, and the bedrooms reflect it. Period property around the market place with high ceilings and irregular walls, and thirty years of estate housing with regular rooms and level floors.
We build wardrobes to the room across both from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, sixteen miles west, about thirty-two minutes.
The older property
Ceiling height is the opportunity. A freestanding wardrobe stops at about two metres and leaves the rest of the wall doing nothing, which in a period bedroom is often close to a metre of wasted height. Floor-to-ceiling units recover it as a full extra shelf.
Walls in this housing are rarely straight and floors have settled. Fitted units are scribed to what the wall actually does so the joint closes tight down its whole length — the one thing freestanding furniture can never do.
Chimney breasts are almost universal, with an alcove either side of a different width. Two made-to-measure units make both properly usable.
One practical point: sliding doors run on tracks fixed to the floor and the ceiling and want both reasonably level. In older property that is worth checking at survey rather than assuming.
The estates
Regular rooms, straight walls, level floors. Simpler and quicker to fit — less scribing and fewer specials — and master bedrooms usually have room for hinged doors, which give the full opening and full depth rather than showing half the interior at a time.
Loft conversions are common in this housing, and the eaves are the strongest single argument for building to the room. Standing height exists only in the middle, so built-in storage along the low walls is the only way the rest is usable at all.
Sliding or hinged
Sliding needs no clearance in front, at a cost of roughly 100mm of depth to the track assembly. Hinged needs around 600mm of swing and gives you everything.
Depth either way: a coat hanger is about 450mm across the shoulders, so around 550mm internal is needed for a door to close without pressing on the clothes — 600mm with the carcass.
Around the market place the bedrooms are period, irregular walls, low ceilings, chimney breasts. On the estates that have grown the town since the seventies they are square and level. The first needs scribing at every junction; the second takes a standard run cleanly.
A slider needs no clearance in front, which matters where a bed sits close to the wardrobe. It takes around 100mm of internal depth for the track, and only one section is open at a time.
Sliding fronts come in mirrored and coloured glass, including yellow, aqua and green, as well as framed panels. Mirror on a wardrobe door is the cheapest way to make a modest bedroom read larger.
Fitted Wardrobes Bingham
Doors
Coloured glass sliding doors including yellow, aqua and green, plus framed and mirrored options. Framed suits the period housing better than a flat unbroken slab against original joinery.
Mirrored works well in smaller north-facing rooms, with the honest caveat that a wall of mirror shows every mark.
The gap above a freestanding wardrobe is wasted storage, and in a period house with good ceiling height it can be a substantial amount of it.
A fitted run goes to the ceiling, with the top section taking seasonal and rarely-used items. Where there is original coving worth keeping, we stop the run just below it rather than cutting through.
Most older bedrooms here have a breast with two alcoves, and those alcoves are almost never equal widths. Freestanding furniture cannot use them; a made-to-measure run fills both and carries the fronts flush across the breast.
That turns the most awkward wall in the room into the most useful one.
The practical gain is floor space. Removing two or three freestanding pieces and replacing them with one run against a single wall frees the middle of the room, which is what actually makes a bedroom feel bigger.
Walk In Wardrobes Bingham
Fitted Bedrooms & Wardrobes Bingham
You can also explore our supplier website, and if something takes your fancy, let us know and we can order it on your behalf.
Half an hour down the A52
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Parking on site.
Come and open the doors — drawer runners, rail mountings and whether the shelves hold their line are what decide how wardrobes feel in five years, and none of it photographs.
Call 0115 877 7595.
