Fitted Bedrooms Bramcote
Two miles from our showroom — near enough that a survey happens the same week and the workshop is ten minutes away if anything needs adjusting on fitting day.
Bramcote is largely interwar and postwar detached and semi-detached housing, a good proportion of it built in the 1960s and 70s, with some older stone property around the old village. The bedrooms are generally better proportioned than in the terraced towns nearby.
What a fitted bedroom includes
Hanging, drawers, a dressing area and the bedside, designed as one piece rather than four things bought separately and pushed against whichever wall is free.
Drawers are the part people consistently under-order. Deep ones for bedding and jumpers, shallow ones for everything that otherwise ends up on a chair.
A dressing area needs less width than expected — around 900mm — but it needs a socket at the right height and light from the front rather than directly overhead, because downlights above a mirror put your own face in shadow. It is the most common complaint about bedroom lighting and it costs nothing to avoid at the design stage.
The 1960s and 70s housing
Regular rooms, straight walls, level floors, and usually a chimney breast with an alcove either side of a different width. Two made-to-measure units make both properly usable; two freestanding wardrobes leave a strip down each side that nothing goes in.
Ceiling heights in this stock are lower than in Victorian housing, so floor-to-ceiling units gain less than they would elsewhere. Still worth doing — it removes the dust shelf and adds a usable shelf — but worth being realistic about rather than specifying out of habit.
These houses are straightforward to fit: less scribing, fewer specials, and master bedrooms usually have the swing room for hinged doors.
The older property near the old village
Stone and period brick, with walls that are nowhere near straight and floors that have settled. Fitted units scribed to what the wall actually does — precisely what freestanding furniture cannot manage.
Bespoke
Fitted Bedrooms
Wardrobes
Sliding doors need no clearance in front and cost about 100mm of depth to the track. Hinged need roughly 600mm of swing and give the full opening and full depth.
A coat hanger is about 450mm across the shoulders, so you want around 600mm of total depth for a door to close cleanly.
Coloured glass sliding doors, framed and mirrored options all available.
Bramcote's 1960s and 70s detached housing has generously proportioned bedrooms with square corners and level floors, which makes a full-width fitted run straightforward.
The older stone properties near the old village are the opposite, irregular walls that need scribing at every junction.
Sliding doors need no clearance in front, which matters in a room where the bed is close to the wardrobe. They cost around 100mm of internal depth for the track, and only one section is ever open at a time.
Hinged doors give you the full depth and full access, but need roughly 600mm of swing. In a large Bramcote bedroom that is usually available; in a smaller room it rarely is.
The closest suburb to the showroom on Derby Road. Easy to come and slide a door before choosing one.
Fitted Wardrobes Gallery
Six minutes away
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. There is a fitted bedroom on display.
Call 0115 877 7595 or just call in.
