There may be many good reasons to design your own wardrobe. You might find that the models on sale in the furniture stores are uninspiring. It could be that you want to incorporate individual design features or materials not commonly found in the wardrobes that roll off factory production lines. Or it could be that your home has unusual requirements.

It may be that most modern homes are built in fairly standard ways, with lots of straight lines and plenty of space that could easily accommodate a standard wardrobe or even allow a walk-in version to be installed simply enough. However, more creativity may be needed when the home has some unusual dimensions.

This may be exactly what one buyer in London will soon be thinking. A property has made headlines after going on the market for an asking price of just £150,000, a figure worthy of a headline itself in the capital’s inflated market. However, there is a snag. The house is one of Britain’s thinnest.

Located on Exmouth Road in Walthamstow, the terraced property is just 6 ft 5 inches wide at the most, with the kitchen measuring just 5ft 6 inches, suggesting there wasn’t much room for anyone to toss a pancake on Shrove Tuesday.

It can only be imagined how cramped the bedroom must be, although for now a lot of imagination will be needed. Previously used as a ceramics workshop, it does not currently have planning permission to be used for residential purposes. However, that does not mean it cannot be. Any wardrobe will, however, need to be custom-designed to squeeze it in.

The same may be true of a few other very narrow homes. Despite the presence of this wafer-thin property in the capital, the Evening Standard recently published an article suggesting the prime candidate for the title of Britain’s narrowest house stands hundreds of miles from London, in Cornwall.

Known as the Doll’s House, the property in the fishing village of Porthleven has gone up for sale for £235,000. Described as being shaped like a knife, it is only just over three metres wide at most and less than a metre wide at its narrowest point.

Fortunately, the bedroom occupies the widest part of the building, but diagrams show the shape is far from being orthodox.

Designing a wardrobe for such a home would be an interesting challenge for any designer, with the one certainty being that anything ‘normal’ can be ruled out right away.

This will also apply in many other instances where the building as a whole has more familiar dimensions and most rooms are spacious, but there may still be an unusual room in one part of the house, perhaps converted from a different use, or located in a more enclosed space in the loft.

By designing something customised to the unusual and often constrained shape and size of the room, you can develop a built-in wardrobe with style and class, offering something that complements the unconventional dimensions, rather than clashing with them.