Fitted Wardrobes Holme Pierrepont
Holme Pierrepont is a small estate village beside the National Water Sports Centre, with period estate housing and a couple of hundred residents. We cover it alongside Radcliffe on Trent, Gamston, West Bridgford and the Trent-side villages.
Estate property of this age is exactly the kind of housing fitted furniture exists for.
Why fitted, in this housing
Freestanding wardrobes assume a flat wall, a level floor and a square corner. Period estate property offers none of those.
Fitted units are scribed to what the wall actually does, so the joint closes tight along its whole length. A shop-bought wardrobe in the same position sits proud at one end, and the gap never stops being visible.
Ceiling heights in these buildings are frequently generous, and that is the opportunity. A freestanding wardrobe stops at about two metres and leaves the rest of the wall doing nothing — often close to a metre. Taking units to the ceiling recovers it as a full extra shelf.
Sloping ceilings and eaves
Where a bedroom sits partly under the roof, the sloping section is useless for anything standing and genuinely good for built-in storage. Drawers or low hanging under the slope, where the height is too low to stand but perfectly adequate for folded clothes.
It is the strongest single argument for building to the room, and it is common in this housing.
Sliding or hinged
Sliding needs no clearance in front, at a cost of roughly 100mm of depth to the track. The practical caveat in period property is that the track fixes to both the floor and the ceiling and wants both reasonably true — in a building that has settled over a century or two, that is worth checking at survey rather than assuming.
Hinged is more forgiving in an irregular room, gives you the full opening and the full depth, and needs around 600mm of swing.
Depth either way: a coat hanger is about 450mm across the shoulders, so roughly 550mm of internal depth is needed for a door to close without pressing on clothes — 600mm with the carcass.
Period estate housing and a small number of substantial properties. The cottages have small bedrooms with irregular walls; the larger houses have room to spare.
Given the Hall and estate context, listed status is a real possibility. Fixings into historic fabric, and anything affecting the building's character, may need consent.
Where a property is protected, a run that fixes back minimally and can be removed without damage is the appropriate approach.
Fitted Wardrobes Holme Pierrepont
Doors
Coloured glass sliding doors including yellow, aqua and green, plus framed and mirrored. Framed suits period property better than a flat unbroken slab against original joinery.
Estate cottage bedrooms tend to be modest with a chimney breast taking up one wall. Building into both alcoves and running fronts flush across the breast is the way to get a full wall of storage out of that shape.
Depth can drop to 450mm where 600mm would make the room unusable — it still takes folded clothes and short hang.
In older buildings where openings are rarely square, hinged doors are more forgiving than sliders, which need a true track to run properly.
They also suit the character of estate property better than a large flat sliding panel.
Round to Derby Road, Stapleford, under Rushcliffe Borough Council.
Walk In Wardrobes Holme Pierrepont
Fitted Bedrooms & Wardrobes Holme Pierrepont
You can also explore our supplier website, and if something takes your fancy, let us know and we can order it on your behalf.
Twenty-four minutes out
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Parking on site.
Call 0115 877 7595 or come and open the doors.
