Fitted wardrobes, ideas for nice storage wanted

[feejee]

I'm finally getting a fitted wardrobe on 17 December (after 3 years hanging my clothes on a wonky rail in the corner of the room). It's terribly exciting!

Any tips or ideas on how to make it even better? Great storage solutions for winter/summer bedding - boxes up on the shelf? Is it worth investing in wooden hangers and getting rid of the plastic? Any other nice to haves? Shoe storage? The interior has a shelf going all along the 2m length, then 50cm is full length hanging, 50cm is 6 built in shelves, and the other half has 2 hanging rails inside.

Where is the long shelf? High or low? High won’t be accessed often at all.
Yes to shoe storage but dedicated shelf space can be fine. A couple of accessible small shelves for random stuff like handbags, summer hats, clothes steamers etc are a must.
For the second set of hanging space do you mean double hanging? Make sure it takes men’s shirts on both rails otherwise it’s not helpful. Have you considered 50cm of double hanging and then 50cm of 75% hanging for knee length dresses with maybe some shelves for shoes underneath?
Wooden hangers yes... from IKEA!

The long shelf is high, so I was thinking some nice boxes to alternately store the winter/summer stuff (rather than it going in the loft). I'll need steps to reach it. We'll keep our tall boy, so my husband can keep his mountains of t-shirts out the way, but will lose the other wide set of drawers.

I love my wooden hangers and they help me keep my wardrobe quite minimal, as I’d rather have wooden hangers than squash more in! Velvet hangers are a bit more practical but my heart wants wood.