Planning fitted wardrobes - help please

[Chipbutty67]

Hi,

I’ve just moved into a 1930s house. There is absolutely no built in storage. Also, both bedroom have a closed off chimney breast off centre to the room with narrow alcoves on either side.

We’ve found a local carpenter build shallow fitted wardrobes either side of the chimney breasts, to make the whole wall flush once the doors are closed. The doors will be push-to-open so no hardware sticking out.

Could anyone help me plan them? So far, I’ve thought of asking for a mounted full length mirror in one door and a door mounted ironing board in one.

I’m toying with the idea of asking for a space to be left inside for narrow laundry baskets (the house only has 1 small bathroom so we have a single small laundry basket for a family of 4) for delicates and dry cleaning.

I haven’t asked for pull out storage as the wardrobes will be relatively shallow.

Any advice from anyone who has designed fitted wardrobes would be very welcome!

Anyone?

I take it you're having hanging rails mounted back to front across the wardrobe rather than from side to side, due to the narrowness of the wardrobes? I've always bought & fitted myself a couple of tie/belt racks to mount in the wardrobe. Also, think whether or not you need lighting in there.

Try OnePlanOnHouzz she's the MN planning guru

You could look at the ikea pax wardrobes for inspiration? They have lots of great ideas.

I second Ikea pax for inspiration too. They have a planning tool that will give you an idea of what you could have in there as long as your sizes are similar to what they sell. Built in drawers and shelving are very handy!

As a pp said the wardrobes will not be deep enough for a normal side to side hanging rail (you need 60cm depth for that). You can buy lots of wardrobe organiser kit from Ikea or Hafele, however it tends to be made to fit a standard depth (60cm) wardrobe so if you go for shallower you may have to have more things made bespoke.

Pull out shelves or baskets are so much easier to use than normal shelves, and you can have them much closer together than fixed shelves, so you will fit more in.

If you do stick with shallow wardrobes then this might be handy.

I would definitely get some sort of shelves or racks at the bottom or perhaps on the back of one door for shoes.

I wouldn't have a stinky laundry basket in a wardrobe with clean clothes. Yuck.