Is this a rubbish idea? Bedroom related ...

[Tia4]

Feel free to be honest about this - when my new wall to wall wardrobes are installed this week they will only have a full width top shelf and full width hanging rails BUT - the bedroom drawers we already have will fit easily inside. It seems to me that it might be a good idea to leave them there (2 sets of them) rather than add wire pull-out drawers. The opening of the wardrobe doors will be sufficient as is the bottom clearance for opening them. What do you think? They are in good condition and very strong (good metal runners etc) and we would only have to get rid of them one way or another. I need to decide before Wednesday though!

Would you still be able to open the bottom drawer?

It has occurred to me to do this.

That's what my husband did in his side of the wardrobes and it works really well. I wish I'd opted for this instead of shelves on my side. We didn't have any already but bought some basic white Ikea ones. Go for it and spend the money on something else.

I did this in my daughters room as her drawers didn't fit in her room anywhere. But as she only needs shallow hanging space (as opposed to the full height of the wardrobe) we popped the drawers in the fitted wardrobe.

As someone already mentioned, you need to ensure that there is enough room for the bottom drawer to pull out, otherwise see if there is a way of raising the drawer unit in plinths or something.

Bonus is that you get an added shelf in the wardrobe!

Oh wow - thank you all so much! Just what I'd hoped to hear :) The doors will run on track almost flat to the floor so bottom drawer will be fine but thanks for reminding me. Shelf created by drawers - hadn't thought of that bit either - great! I will lose 18" of the whole width below hanging rail as we are also standing the rowing machine up in there and lowering it through open door to use it. We use it every day but it's too big and ugly to leave lying out as we do now. I've checked and it will fit with 1" to spare!

Thanks again everyone - getting excited about storage now ha ha!