Fitted Wardrobes Radcliffe on Trent
The Victorian and Edwardian villas in Radcliffe have the best bedrooms we work in for fitted furniture, for one reason: ceiling height.
A freestanding wardrobe stops at about two metres. In a villa bedroom with a ten-foot ceiling that leaves the best part of a metre of wall doing absolutely nothing. Taking units to the ceiling recovers it as a full extra shelf — the one that ends up holding suitcases, spare bedding and whatever is currently in the loft.
We build wardrobes to the room across the village from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, eleven miles west, about twenty-six minutes.
The villas
High ceilings, generous rooms, and almost always a chimney breast with an alcove either side of a slightly different width. Where those alcoves are deep enough for full 600mm hanging — and in this housing they often are — you can put the wardrobes in them and use the chimney breast face for drawers or a dressing table, which keeps the room feeling open in a way a single long wardrobe wall does not.
The period caveats apply. Walls in these houses are rarely straight and floors have settled, so units are scribed to what is actually there rather than set against a nominal line. That is exactly what freestanding furniture cannot do.
Converted attics
Radcliffe has a good number of attic conversions, and the eaves are the strongest case for fitted furniture there is. Standing height exists only in the middle of the room, so drawers or low hanging built in along the low walls is the only way to use the rest at all. Nothing off a shelf reaches it.
Interwar, postwar and the estates
More regular rooms, lower ceilings, straighter walls and level floors. Simpler to fit, and the front bedrooms in the interwar stock usually have a bay window — a run either side with a low unit beneath the window turns it into storage and a window seat rather than a gap between two wardrobes.
Radcliffe runs from Victorian and Edwardian villas near the centre through interwar and postwar housing to modern estates — three different sets of bedroom proportions.
The period villas have ceiling height most houses do not, and a full-height run turns that into real storage rather than dead air.
In the modern housing the walls are true and the floors level, so sliding doors run properly and a standard run installs cleanly.
Fitted Wardrobes Radcliffe on Trent
Sliding or hinged
Sliding needs no clearance in front and costs about 100mm of depth to the track. Hinged gives the full opening and full depth and needs around 600mm of swing, which these rooms generally have.
Depth is the constant: a coat hanger is roughly 450mm across the shoulders, so around 550mm internal is needed for the door to close without pressing on the clothes — 600mm with the carcass.
Doors
Coloured glass sliding doors including yellow, aqua and green, plus framed and mirrored. Framed suits the period housing better than a flat unbroken slab, which can sit awkwardly against original skirting and picture rails.
Several of the villas and interwar houses have a bay to the principal bedroom. A low run following the bay, or a window seat with drawers beneath, uses a space that otherwise holds a chair nobody sits in.
It also keeps the wardrobe run off the window wall, where it would block light.
Coving, picture rails and deep skirtings are part of what these houses are. A run can stop below a picture rail and scribe over a skirting rather than cutting through either.
It costs a little more fitting time and it keeps the room intact.
Over to Derby Road, Stapleford, under Rushcliffe.
Walk In Wardrobes Radcliffe on Trent
Fitted Bedrooms & Wardrobes Radcliffe on Trent
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Twenty-six minutes out
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Parking on site.
Call 0115 877 7595 or come and open the doors.
