Fitted Wardrobes cost the earth?

[Samara26]

I've bought a house with sloping ceilings in all the bedrooms upstairs and wondered if there's a cheap solution to get some fitted? The seller said you can get a kitchen fitted or joiner to do it cheaper but will it be that much cheaper? I didn't really want to spend 5k on wardrobes but I have a lot of clothes. From IKEA I think a Pax 4-5 door wardrobe is around £500 - I was just going to get 2 of them but that's not really an option now :(

I'd try measuring for the pax shorter wardrobes and fitting the taller doors to them.

If you position them at the right distance from the wall you'll get a full length door and still get a functional wardrobe with sloping storage at the top.

The slope goes quite low at the corner to about waist height, so it cut too much space of the room if I was to place them further in until they meet the ceiling? I'd lose about a quarter to third of the room on both sides

Unfortunately I need quite a few of them, not just a double here and there :(

Similar to pp, you can cut pax units down. Tonnes of videos on YouTube about it. I picked up a few in- box but slightly damaged pax units for £15 each recently and plan to try it out.
My ceilings dont end quite as low as yours but I am planning to leave a gap behind for luggage and storage boxes I only need to access once or twice a year.

Thanks - it sounds like a big project. I've never done DIY before I'll definitely look into it though

We got a joiner to cut Pax down for under a sloping ceiling and make bespoke doors and filler panels. So Pax carcasses and innards but joiner outsides. Not cheap but cheaper than full on bespoke wardrobes.

I agree. You can get pax and get a joiner to cut and fit them to size. Obviously you need to liaise and contact joiner first before ordering.

Otherwise a carpenter to make bespoke. The likes of Sharp etc are really expensive so I would explore the other options first.

Try to find a local carpenter, we had a local carpenter do our built in wardrobes & they were a fifth of the price of sharps/ikea etc & were more specific to our needs top

there is a company called Fittingly that does custom wardrobes from a website. you measure up, they cut the components and send them flatpack with detailed instructions and you put it together like an IKEA wardrobe. But perfectly fitted to your space.

you need to measure v carefully and the order time is long, but they look good and work nicely. you can phone them for advice too.

Thanks. Sharps have a 65% off sale at the moment but it's probably still insanely expensive...

That sounds great! Could u give me an idea of what cost might be so I know what to expect t?

We used these people unflatpack.com/

They specifically work with pax and will tell you exactly what to buy to get them to fit and also make best use of space - they put filler panels in and cut to slope etc.

MUCH cheaper than Sharps and the like

Hiya, we paid around £1100 for a full wall of wardrobes, floor to ceiling, 5doors, two large hanging compartments, plus one shelfed section (inside the chimney bit) much much cheaper than sharps who quoted us over £6k

Depends what you want in terms of internal shelving etc, but the cheapest way to do it would be to put up a stud wall, add doors - wherever you liked - and put it a rail.

Not fitted wardrobes, but I needed fitted bookcases (lots). I googled local cabinet makers (not joiners) and found someone who did a great job for half the price of some of the bigger firms.