If you want to make your own wardrobe instead of having to choose from different designs someone else has come up with, you might be concerned that you could budget for more than you can afford. However, our design tool is made to prevent that from happening.

Whether you have just moved home, will do soon, or simply want to give your bedroom a fresh look, wardrobes may be on your mind. If you want to design your own wardrobe and ditch the clunky old thing lurking in the corner, we have just the tool you need.

However, it is also sure to be the case that you will have a budget. Some people will have more to spend than others, of course, while the ambitions people have for a room will vary. 

How Does Our Design Tool Give You Flexibility?

Our design tool has been created with exactly the built-in flexibility that enables you to tailor your wardrobe ambitions to your own needs. This includes:

• Designing it to the exact size and shape to best fit the room it will go in
• Selecting the high-quality materials to be used, as well as the design of parts like doors.
• Choosing accessories such as handles and knobs.

The best part about this is that you can experiment a lot, looking at different designs and specifications. If you aren’t happy with your initial ideas, you can change them before you finally send us the design you want.

However, if you have a budget in mind, this may act as a constraint on what you can do. Nobody will be happy if they come up with a design they love but then get hit with a larger price tag than they expected.

However, our tool offers real-time pricing so you can avoid any shocks. This means that with every detail you add, every change you make, you can see the cost being adjusted in real time.

As you go through the design process, it tallies everything up so you can keep track easily.

What Is The Great Benefit Of Cost-Tracking Technology?

In an age when the cost of living is a perennial talking point, it makes sense that new technology is increasingly being used to help people keep track of their spending.

Indeed, this is even happening with things as simple as the weekly shop. Supermarket retailer Morrisons, for example, has just launched an AI-powered smart shopping trolley that can keep track of what shoppers are spending as they load each item into it.

Our design tool isn’t an AI device; if you want some extra intelligence, you can simply contact one of our designers and speak to them to refine your ideas or find a solution to a problem. However, it does offer the same principle that tracking your costs keeps you in control.

How Can Our Tool Help You Balance Cost And Design?

Of course, the pinch point can arrive where you find that a particular design with a certain set of characteristics and elements will exceed your budget. At this point, you will need to make some choices:

• Could you make the wardrobe a bit smaller?
• Could you change the materials involved?
• Would some different design features available at a lower cost still suit your purposes?

This may not be a query with an immediate and obvious answer, but by using the tool to experiment and look at different possibilities, you can compare costs and the other benefits so that you can weigh up your options before deciding.

A further benefit of doing this is that if you do have some flexibility with your budget, you can explore various design possibilities before establishing whether you might have a bit more money to spend, perhaps by cutting spending on other things.

In short, what you have is a large element of control. Although your budget might not be infinite, the tool does give you the options to explore what you could have, if you can find a way of stretching it, but also opportunities to discover different ways to trim costs.

How Much Are People Budgeting For Home Improvements?

Budgeting for home improvements is undoubtedly a big deal. Last year, a Hillary’s survey of UK home improvement trends (based on various pieces of research) revealed that:

• The average cost of fully renovating a three-bedroom home in the UK in 2024 was £76,690
• However, many people plan to spend far less, with a sixth of homeowners in an Aviva survey saying they planned to spend between £5,000 and £10,000.
• The most popular rooms for renovation were bathrooms and kitchens.
• The most expensive renovation of all was a loft conversion, at £45,000 on average.

What this reveals is that many of those renovating the bedroom are doing it alongside other rooms, with kitchens and bathrooms often taking priority. If this is you, it may be that spending on such items impacts your bedroom wardrobe budget.

In the case of loft conversions, however, many of these will be for the purpose of using the room as a bedroom.

Your budget may not be as big as £45,000, but a bespoke fitted wardrobe may be a key part of the scheme, not least as it can be tailored to the shape of a room not originally designed for that purpose, with common elements including a sloping ceiling under the roof.

Only you can decide what your priorities are for home improvements and DIY. Every home is different in a myriad of ways, while personal tastes and lifestyle considerations are also an important variable. After all, you want your bedroom to be an attractive space.

Designing a new bespoke wardrobe yourself offers a superb opportunity to combine style and taste with practical need. Finding a balance can sometimes be tricky and so can fitting it within the budget. However, you may end up pleasantly surprised at what you can do.

Ultimately, the control that the design tool gives you means that how you balance all these things is in your hands. You can work on your design as much as you like until you are ready to send it to us, after which our skilled makers will do the rest.