fitted wardrobe suggestions

utajoker

utajoker

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Hi

Looking for a fitted wardrobe place recommendation.

Moving into a new house soon and am thinking of getting fitted wardrobes on one wall rather than a couple of free standing ones.

I've seen sharps online but reviews seem to say they are overpriced.

Can anyone recommend anywhere to have a look at?

We are in Bolton in North West.

Also anyone who has had done, what kinds of prices am i looking at?

The room will be 3.09m x 4.25m and would look to cover most of the 4m leaving enough space for door to en suite to open fully on the joining wall.

Hopefully the room would be wide enough with a king size bed on the opposite wall.

Thanks,
 
Another option would be to consider the Ikea Pax range, very well made/sturdy and enough options to cater for most configuration requirements assuming you don't need to build around too complex of a room shape. If you half handy at DIY you could save yourself a fortune opposed to using a 'fitted wardrobe/designer firm'.
 
utajoker said:
The room will be 3.09m x 4.25m and would look to cover most of the 4m leaving enough space for door to en suite to open fully on the joining wall.

Hopefully the room would be wide enough with a king size bed on the opposite wall.

Thanks,
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I think you'll be struggling a bit - presumably without the wardrobe you only have an ~1m gap between the foot of the bed and the wall? By the time you put a wardrobe in that's deep enough to hang anything you're going to be looking at a pretty narrow gap.
 
I'm also looking at fitted cupboards for my new house. I've visited a local firm and they said it'll approximately cost £1k for 1m in length as a rough guide. I've also call a local builder to compare prices. Given the lack of space in the room, I'm opting to get the Volante mirrored sliding doors.
 
I got some eye watering prices.

Mine were a similar size (I think) at 3.7m, three door slider for £3.4k. That was a local firm.

Ended up going to one of the big bedroom retail units and getting an off the shelf option instead as I just couldn't bring myself to spend that.

Spent £1.3k at Dreams for the same size (and drawrs and 2x bedside tables) and due to new build low ceilings it's as good as fitted with just 1cm of clearance at the top.
 
1k per meter! thats ridiculous.

How sturdy are Pax wardrobes from ikea?

i really don't want wardrobes that start creaking and rocking after 12 months and have this card backs that start to bow. i really hate draws with the card bottoms that just sag after 6 months and then the draws never shut properly again.
 
Very sturdy, especially the those with sliding doors (and assuming you secure to the wall). I put in a 3m run into my daughters room, been in 3 and half years now and as good as new. That happy with them that I've just finished redoing our own bedroom and have gone for PAX in there also.
 
utajoker said:
How sturdy are Pax wardrobes from ikea?
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Very, providing you don't store very heavy objects on shelves that span wide gaps/on top of the units themselves.

If you have the right space for Pax, you can get 90% of the look of fitted for a third of the cost. I got quoted £2.4k for a 2m run and I can (and will) do the same in Pax for £800.

I totally get fitted wardrobes if you want something special, but for anyone wanting sliding doors and a basic yet functional interior; Pax does pretty nicely.
 
utajoker said:
How sturdy are Pax wardrobes from ikea?

i really don't want wardrobes that start creaking and rocking after 12 months and have this card backs that start to bow. i really hate draws with the card bottoms that just sag after 6 months and then the draws never shut properly again.
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Solid wardrobes, cant go wrong with them. If you were planning on built in anyway you can go that final step and anchor them to the wall, very little extra effort, although they don't need.

The draw bottoms are not card and they seem to be scaled to a point where you are not going to load them up to heavily that they will sag, no signs of sag in ours yet and coming up to a year old.

We filled a 2.75m gap with pax for £675.
 
+1 for Ikea Pax. If your space is the correct dimensions they look totally seamless. They’re also enormous with lots of clever internal ideas. They don’t take kindly to being disassembled and moved though! We have some with large sliding doors and they’re excellent and have been for about 4 years now despite being moved a couple of times.
 
Just to add I did the Pax route above. I covered a span of just under 3m using 3 of the 75cm and one 50 cm. I tied them to the wall and raised them slightly so the new carpet fitted under the front. Then built a simple frame around them so the sides are finished with melamine and the top is painted mdf. It has left a great finish and all in costed less than 700 even with all the doors / interiors.
 
Pax are a good shout, just treat them like bespoke fitted wardrobes as in you won't take them with you when/if you move.

They are also very easy to build and fit.

It's worth either cutting the bottoms to fit around your skirting so they fit flat to wall or fitting a rear wooden batton across the top between the wall and wardrobe to get a perfect flush support from the wall to back of wardrobe, if they are proud of the wall due to the skirting. Depending on your skirting gap a simple pine batton from b&q may be fine otherwise mdf board cut to batton size. Then you can use framing bolts to secure.

Good quality too esp for the money.

Otherwise top quality bespoke will be £700-£1200 per metre
 
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