Talk to me about bedroom wardrobes

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Currently looking at remodeling bedroom after house move. Looking at fitted wardrobes along wall opposite bed. Do any of you have this, and if so what is the width of walkway between bed and wardrobe please? My other option is to have them along the side wall, but need to be mindful of the door. There is a huge bay window on the other wall

I think you'd want at least 3ft between the end of the bed and the wardrobes so you can get between comfortably. Ideally more so you can have the wardrobe doors open and not feel boxed in (or sliding doors).

Bear in mind a UK standard internal door width is 2'6".

Are either of the walls external? If so, I'd avoid those ones. When we moved into our current house, there was horrible mould behind the wardrobes as the air couldn't circulate due to them being fitted. The only place they will fit in our room is against the external wall so we replaced them with freestanding for now.

I think that's only likely to be an issue if you have solid brick walls or unfilled cavities. We had problems in a house with the former, no issues with it in our current house which has filled cavities

Ah maybe. Our house was built in 1910 so i presume either of those could be the case!

horrible mould behind the wardrobes as the air couldn't circulate due to them being fitted

Wouldn't a couple of batons (enough to lift the wardrobe back off the wall 5mm) solve this?

Our big run of wardrobes (Sharps, installed by previous owners) is on the party wall with our neighbours. They must have their heating turned up full blast because the wardrobes are warm inside. Brilliantly aired clothes. And the cat loves to sleep in there!

No, walk isn't external. Think I will have to go with sliding doors!

We have a relatively narrow gap but it's worked out fine.

Bed is on wall opposite chimney breast with the wardrobes in the two alcoves. So the narrow bit is between end of bed and the chimney breast. We have opening rather than sliding doors as that conversely gave us more space.

The other walls one is a bay window, the other to the left of the door as you enter and fitting wardrobes along there there would have been less storage space due to needing to leave clearance to get into the room with furniture.

We have fitted wardrobes with sliding doors at the end of our bed. There's not loads of room but it's fine, actually quite nice as you can sit down whilst you decide what to wear.

You won't regret it! Checking in if how'd you like your sliding wardrobe doors? They're convenient, no?