Fitted Bedrooms Wollaton
Wollaton has some of the best bedrooms in the city for fitted furniture — particularly the larger 1930s houses near the park, which were built with proportions that later housing never matched.
We build across the suburb from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, four miles west, about eleven minutes.
The 1930s houses near the park
Generous rooms, good ceiling height, a bay window in the front bedroom and a chimney breast on one wall with an alcove either side.
The bay is the feature people most often want to keep visible rather than build across. The usual answer is a run either side of it and a low unit — seat height, with drawers or a lift-up lid — beneath the window itself. That turns it into storage and a window seat at once rather than an awkward gap between two wardrobes.
The alcoves either side of the chimney breast are frequently deep enough for full 600mm hanging, which is not true everywhere. Where they are, you can put the wardrobes in the alcoves and use the chimney breast face for a dressing area or a run of drawers — which keeps the room feeling open in a way one long wardrobe wall does not.
Dressing areas
There is usually room for a proper one here. A worktop with knee space, a socket at the right height, and light from the front rather than above — downlights directly overhead put your own face in shadow, which is the most common complaint about bedroom lighting and the easiest thing to design out.
Loft conversions
Common in this housing, and the eaves are the entire argument for building to the room. Standing height exists only in the middle, so built-in drawers or low hanging along the low walls is the only way that space becomes usable at all. Nothing off a shelf reaches it.
Bespoke
Fitted Bedrooms
The older property in the village
Period stone near the old village core, with walls that are not straight and floors that have settled. Fitted units are scribed to what the wall actually does so the joint closes along its whole length.
Wardrobes
Hinged doors need about 600mm of swing and give the full opening and full depth, which these rooms generally have space for. Sliding needs no clearance in front and costs roughly 100mm of depth to the track.
A coat hanger is about 450mm across the shoulders, so 600mm of total depth lets a door close cleanly.
Coloured glass sliding doors, framed and mirrored options available. Framed suits the period housing better than a flat unbroken slab against original skirting.
Wollaton has interwar and postwar detached and semi-detached housing, with larger 1930s properties near the park and some period stone in the old village.
The 1930s houses typically have a generous principal bedroom, a decent second bedroom and a small third — three quite different fitted furniture problems in one house.
The box room is where fitted furniture earns most. A shallow run at 450mm rather than a full 600mm depth still takes folded clothes, shelving and short hang, and it leaves floor space that a standard wardrobe would consume entirely.
Where the room has to work as a study too, the same run can carry a desk return.
A short run to Derby Road, Stapleford. Wollaton falls within Nottingham City Council.
Fitted Wardrobes Gallery
Eleven minutes out
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. There is a fitted bedroom on display.
Call 0115 877 7595 or come and look.
