How to Design your Perfect Wardrobe
How To Design Your Perfect Wardrobe
Whether you’re planning to have a new wardrobe, upgrading your interior storage or changing an unused room into a glam new walk-in wardrobe, below we’ve outlined a few key considerations to help you design your perfect wardrobe.
- Practicality
The most important factor in designing your wardrobe is your lifestyle. Before you get down to the nitty-gritty of measuring up your space, you should consider the following factors;
- what are your preferences in clothes? Do you need full length hanging space for gowns and suits or would shelving work better?
- Do you collect a lot of shoes, bags or perhaps accessories? What about hats or scarfs?
- Would you prefer items on show or everything packed neatly away behind closed doors?
Once you start thinking about these questions you can start to get a feel for the type of design, you’ll need to keep everything nicely separated and well organised.
In addition, if you’ll be predominately keeping clothes in your wardrobe, do you prefer them hanging or neatly folded and kept on shelves?
Hanging rails are important but shelves offer multipurpose storage and are ideal for storing towels, boxes, bags or bedding.
Drawers are a great way to squeeze maximum storage out of every space. Best of all, drawers are convenient to access and allow you to group the smaller items in your wardrobe that often get lost or misplaced. They are also great for organising essential everyday things such as underwear, socks, stockings, scarves, or jewellery.
Deeper draws can hold those larger items such as sweaters that you may not want to over-stretch on hangers. But how many drawers will you need?
TOP TIP — when calculating always go for one or two more than you think you’ll need, you will always find something to put in them!
If you like to keep shoes in your wardrobe, consider pull out shelves to have easy access to lower and deeper sections of the wardrobe. Also using adjustable shelving will give you the flexibility to create spaces to suit your bigger belongings or boxes. Maximise space where you need it and reduce wasted space in those spots where you don’t need wide shelving.
For those smaller items such as belts and jewellery, opt for cleverly ready designed hangers, pull out organisers and jewellery drawers. Even a strategically placed hook or two can lead to improved storage of these smaller items.
If you like to keep your trousers neat, you can install trousers organisers.
Finally, to maximise your wardrobe space, where possible, build it right to the ceiling, and a good option is to have wider top shelves where you can store items you use infrequently such as guest pillows, duvets, blankets or suitcases.
2. Accessories and Lights
There is a wide range of lighting options for walk-in wardrobes that add both function and style.
Light up your wardrobe with sensor LED rail lights or build in the shelves LED spotlights — both lighting option will immediately light up the space without glare so that you will find what you’re looking for as soon you open the wardrobe door or walk in to your dressing room.
For an additional feature, install decorative external lighting to cast a soft glow over the beautiful doors or display of your shoes or your bag collection.
3. Style
Functionality is one thing, but you also want your walk-in wardrobe to look and feel stylish. Once you have decided on the internal storage, you can choose the right material finish and colour scheme to fit your room.
Designing your own wardrobe is the perfect opportunity to add a bit of personality and style to an important part of your bedroom.
If you find you’re stuck between the choice of two, three or more finishes, why not order some of our samples?
Keep the samples and match with your existing furniture or make a statement of your wardrobe by choosing contrasting colours.
Don’t forget about mirrors. Whether it will be a part of your door system or within the interior of a walk-in wardrobe, mirrors not only serve a very practical purpose, but they also help smaller wardrobe spaces and bedrooms appear less cluttered and bigger.
Mirrors can also be hidden on the inside of walk-in wardrobe doors too.
4. Consult a Wardrobe Design Professional
Bespoke wardrobes are gaining in popularity each year, with new styles suitable for homes and rooms of all shapes and sizes. When faced with designing your own wardrobe, it can feel like a huge undertaking or time challenge. There’s so much potential and you want to get it just right.
Your wardrobe will be one of the most utilised spaces within your home and plays a pivotal storage role. Quite simply, storage sells homes so speak with a wardrobe design professional to ensure that your wardrobe design maximises storage and is functional for your budget and lifestyle.
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