Fitted Wardrobes Edwalton
Edwalton is one of the few places we cover where a walk-in wardrobe is a realistic request rather than an aspirational one.
The housing is mostly postwar detached and substantial recent estate development, with larger bedrooms, higher ceilings and regular walls. That changes the conversation from “how do we fit storage in” to “how should the storage be arranged”.
We build wardrobes to the room across Edwalton from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, nine miles west, about twenty-two minutes.
Walk-in and dressing areas
Where a master bedroom has the floor area, running wardrobes down two walls with a dressing area between them works better than one long run along a single wall. You get the same hanging length, better access, and somewhere to stand and get dressed that is not the end of the bed.
Where there is an adjoining box room — common in this housing — converting it into a dressing room is frequently a better use of it than leaving it as an under-sized fourth bedroom. That is worth thinking about before it is furnished as a bedroom by default.
Hinged doors work here
In most of the housing we cover, sliding doors are the pragmatic answer because the room is too tight for anything else. In Edwalton the bedrooms usually have the 600mm of swing space that hinged doors need — and where they do, hinged is the better choice.
You see the whole interior at once rather than half of it, and you keep the full carcass depth rather than losing about 100mm to a sliding track.
Sliding still has its place, particularly where a bed sits close to the wardrobe wall in a second or third bedroom.
Depth
A coat hanger is about 450mm across the shoulders. For a door to close without pressing on the clothes you need roughly 550mm of internal depth, which with the carcass lands at 600mm. Plan a walk-in at 600mm per side plus at least a metre of clear floor between, or it stops being walk-in.
Edwalton's postwar and modern detached housing, and the recent estate development, generally give bedrooms with real floor area and square corners.
With clearance in front of the wardrobe wall, hinged doors give full access and about 100mm more internal depth than sliders. In a smaller room that choice is not available.
Where a fourth bedroom or a large landing exists, converting it into a dressing room is a realistic option here in a way it is not in most of our patch.
Fitted Wardrobes Edwalton
Doors and finishes
Coloured glass sliding doors including yellow, aqua and green, plus framed and mirrored options.
Mirrored works well, though in a large bright bedroom it is less necessary than in the smaller north-facing rooms elsewhere — and a full wall of mirror shows every mark.
In a large bedroom the risk is a run that simply stretches without structure. Breaking it into hanging, drawers and a full-height section, with a mirrored or glazed panel to lift it, keeps a long wall from reading as a fence.
Where an en-suite adjoins, aligning the wardrobe run with the doorway keeps the sightline clean.
Two people sharing one run need the internals split deliberately rather than symmetrically: different hanging heights, and drawers weighted to whoever actually uses them.
It sounds obvious and it is routinely not done.
Across to Derby Road in Stapleford, under Rushcliffe. Walk in without booking.
Walk In Wardrobes Edwalton
Fitted Bedrooms & Wardrobes Edwalton
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-two minutes out
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.
Call 0115 877 7595.
