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Photo-real render of a taupe dressing suite under a loft ceiling

The Rooms27 August 20263 minWalk-in wardrobe layouts: what fits in what spaceEvery walk-in wardrobe is one sum: 600mm for the storage, 900mm for the human, repeated for each side you want. Run the sum before you fall in love with a photograph. Here is what honestly fits at each room size, from the box room to the island, and the point below which a walk-in is the wrong answer.Read the guide

Photo-real render of classic fitted cabinetry in a period-style bedroom

The Rooms27 Aug 20264 minVictorian alcoves: fitting wardrobes to period wallsA Victorian bedroom hands you two alcoves either side of a chimney breast and dares you to fill them. Modular furniture cannot, because no two alcoves in Britain are the same shape, and neither side of the same chimney matches the other. This is what fitting furniture to hundred-year-old walls actually involves.

Fitted wardrobes wrapping a window with a window seat and drawers beneath, real installation

The Rooms27 Aug 20264 minSmall bedroom, full wardrobe: layouts that actually workA small bedroom does not need less wardrobe. It needs the wardrobe drawn around three fixed enemies: the door swing, the bed, and the window. Here are the layouts that beat each one, with the millimetre logic behind them, from rooms we have actually drawn.

Loft wardrobes under a slanted ceiling with lit interiors, second angle

The Rooms27 Aug 20263 minWardrobes for sloped ceilings and loft roomsSloped ceilings defeat modular wardrobes because catalogues don’t come cut to your roof pitch. Drawn properly, the angle becomes the best storage in the house. Here’s how the eaves actually get used.

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