Custom Wardrobes
A wardrobe is the cheapest square metre of storage in a house, provided it is built to the wall you actually have. We measure the opening, the ceiling height and the way the room is used, draw it in 3D, then machine the carcasses, the doors and the internals at our Huskisson workshop. Built in, walk in, sliding or hinged, with the internals set out around what is going in rather than around a standard shelf height. Where the wardrobe is going into a unit or a townhouse, access decides the module sizes, so we measure the lift and the corridor on the first visit too.
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A built in robe is fixed joinery, so it answers to the room rather than sitting in it. We set the depth from what is hanging in it, six hundred millimetres for a coat and less for a child bedroom, then run the carcass wall to wall and scribe it in. Doors can be hinged, sliding or a mix, and the face can finish flush with the wall lining so the robe reads as part of the room instead of standing proud of it.
A walk in only works if the walkway is real. Six hundred millimetres of clear floor between hanging on both sides is the difference between a dressing room and a corridor you have to turn sideways in. We set the walkway first, then fit the hanging, the shelving and the drawers around what is left, and plan the lighting and the power while it is still a drawing rather than after the joinery is in.
A hinged robe door needs most of a metre of clear floor to open, which in a small bedroom is the walking space. Sliders take none of it, at the cost of only ever having half the opening available at once. We would rather work that trade off out with a tape measure in the room than after it is built, and where sliders are right we set the tracks into the carcass so the doors sit flush with the face.
Ashbrook is owned and run by a qualified builder with 15+ years on site, which on a wardrobe mostly shows up as knowing what can move. Whether a robe wall is structural, whether a bulkhead can be cut back to gain the last three hundred millimetres of height, and what a strata scheme is going to say about it are all questions we would rather answer at the measure than halfway through.
Our wardrobes page covers the same work across the Shoalhaven. If there is more than one room to sort out, start from our Wollongong joinery and cabinetry page.
Access is worked out before the design, not on the day the truck arrives.