Fitted Wardrobes Cropwell Butler
Cropwell Butler is the smaller of the two Cropwells — a village of a few hundred people about a mile from Cropwell Bishop, and the two get mixed up constantly.
The housing is period brick and stone, farmhouses and cottages, with limited modern infill. The older stock has irregular layouts, lower ceilings than people expect, and walls that have never been straight.
We build wardrobes to the room across both villages and the Vale of Belvoir from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, thirteen miles west, about twenty-nine minutes.
Why fitted, in this housing especially
Freestanding wardrobes assume a flat wall, a level floor and a square corner. Cottage and farmhouse bedrooms offer none of the three.
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 spot sits proud at one end, and that gap is permanent — you look at it every morning.
Chimney breasts are near-universal in this housing, with an alcove either side of a different width and neither one a size anyone manufactures to. Two made-to-measure units make both into proper hanging and shelving.
Sloping ceilings
Bedrooms partly under the roof are common here. The sloping section is useless for anything standing and genuinely good for built-in storage — drawers or low hanging beneath 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.
Sliding doors in a settled building
Sliding needs no clearance in front, which matters in a small cottage bedroom. The catch is that the track fixes to both the floor and the ceiling and wants both reasonably true — and in a building that has moved over two centuries, that is worth establishing at survey rather than assuming.
Hinged doors are more forgiving in an irregular room, give you the full opening and the full depth, and need around 600mm of swing.
Period brick and stone, farmhouses, and irregular older layouts with low ceilings in the oldest stock. Very little here is a standard room size.
Narrow stairs and old door openings limit what can be carried up in one piece. Large sliding door panels in particular need a route, and we check it at survey.
Where access will not take a finished unit, the run is built and assembled in the room instead. It changes the method, not the result.
Fitted Wardrobes Cropwell Butler
Depth
A coat hanger is about 450mm across the shoulders, so a door needs roughly 550mm of internal depth to close without pressing on the clothes — 600mm including the carcass. Below that, sideways hanging with the rail front to back is the answer.
Doors
Coloured glass sliding doors including yellow, aqua and green, plus framed and mirrored options. Framed suits period property better than a flat unbroken slab against original joinery.
In the oldest stock the ceiling may be well under two and a half metres, which rules out some standard door heights entirely.
Made-to-measure fronts solve it. A run built to the actual height available looks intentional, where a standard unit with a filler panel above it never quite does.
Sliding doors need a true, square opening to run properly. In a cottage bedroom where nothing is square, hinged doors are frequently the more reliable choice as well as the more traditional one.
They also give the full internal depth, which matters when the room is small to begin with.
Across to Derby Road in Stapleford, with everything on display.
Walk In Wardrobes Cropwell Butler
Fitted Bedrooms & Wardrobes Cropwell Butler
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-nine minutes out
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Parking on site.
Call 0115 877 7595 or come and open the doors.
