Our DIY wardrobe planner offers you the chance to design the wardrobe of your dreams. You can build it with all the features and dimensions you want, instead of having to choose from whatever you can find in the shops.
The best feature of this online tool is that you can work away to your heart’s content designing every specification, including height, width, the colour scheme, the materials and all the inside features.
Although there are some materials and accessories we do not do, the range of what we can offer is wide and, used smartly, it can take your wardrobe to the next level, ensuring it meets every single need that you have, something freestanding wardrobes could never do.
How Many Clothes Does The Average Wardrobe Need To Store?
Of course, the first requirement is to have enough space to put all your clothes in. According to Calendar.co.uk:
- The average UK household has 118 items in their wardrobe
- Most people have between 77 and 155 items in their wardrobe
- A small minority have more than 300 items in their wardrobe
Clearly, therefore, the size requirements may vary depending on how many garments are in the house.
Secondly, the type of garments will shape how your wardrobe is organised. For example, a lot of long, flowing dresses will require copious hanging space, whereas a lot of items like T-shirts or short skirts may benefit from extra drawers.
These elements are all important, but there are more details to consider, which our range of accessories can help you to fine-tune, ensuring that every element of the design fits your needs as well as being aesthetically pleasing.
What Accessories Do We Offer?
Among the accessories we offer are:
- A sample pack of colours and textures, so you can take a closer look and decide what is best for you
- A cornice that can be placed on top of the wardrobe, provided the ceiling is over 2,700 mm high
- A 160 mm pull-out wire basket for clothes or shoes
- A pull-out wire shoe rack
- A trouser rack
- A pull-out jewellery tray
- A hanging rail
- A deluxe centre bracket
- A deluxe end bracket
- A deluxe end socket
What Storage Accessories Can Help You Keep Shoes Or Clothes Looking Immaculate?
Some of these may be particularly useful in enabling you to make the very most of your wardrobe space.
For example, the 160 mm pull-out wire basket for clothes or shoes may provide that extra bit of storage space you need, with the flexibility for it to be used for more than one type of item, which is useful if that need may change from time to time.
It can be particularly useful for shoes. These are items which, if they do not go annoyingly missing, are prone to becoming trip hazards when left around and, if you have a dog, may be prone to being chewed.
Moreover, this can be a useful safe space for keeping your very best shoes immaculate and sparkling clean.
The pull-out wire shoe rack is a thinner item and is designed just for shoes, so this can be used as a specific dedicated place to store them, especially delicate ladies’ footwear with heels.
Our trouser rack is another extremely handy accessory, ideal for not just keeping your trousers together so that you can find the pair you need easily, but also ensuring they stay very neat and don’t need ironing when you are in a hurry to go out.
It has movable magnetic rods to ensure it suits all sizes, while grooved aluminium rods help prevent slippage, so they don’t end up on the floor.
How Can You Keep Jewellery Safe And Organised?
Perhaps the most compelling addition that some could have is the pull-out jewellery tray. This shallow drawer has a large number of small compartments, into which you can place earrings, rings, brooches, necklaces, watches, ties, belts and much else besides.
Anyone who has been searching for the right jewellery to put on before a night out will testify to how stressful it can be trying to find it. And if any is lost, it can be almost impossible to find, unless of course it has a sharp part, in which case you will ‘locate’ it in bare feet.
This accessory, however, offers a wonderful chance to dismiss such worries and keep your jewellery stored not only safely, but very well organised, so even if you have a jewellery box that keeps items safe, you won’t have to spend time rummaging to find what you need.
It also comes with velvet-lined compartments and a lifetime warranty.
The above items are all extremely useful storage items and each of them comes in a mink (light oatmeal) hue.
What Homes Would Suit A Wardrobe With A Cornice At The Top?
Other items may be practical, such as the hanging rail, brackets and sockets, or aesthetic, which is definitely the category that the cornice falls into.
This provides a decorative border along the top of the wardrobe and, in doing so, introduces a design feature that would match with other cornices if your house has them.
Indeed, if you live in a Georgian, Regency or Victorian building, you may be delighted to match these period features with your modern wardrobe.
The aesthetics of your wardrobe are not the first issue you will tackle as you use the design tool, but once you have the basic shape, these extra elements can start to be added in as you put the flesh on the bones of your design.
This means you can then start to select from our wide range of door designs and colours, as well as adding on various handles and knobs.
These include choices like a clear faceted knob, a Victorian cupboard knob and knurled door handles. You can consider these alongside the other features of the wardrobe you have chosen and seek a stylistic match, such as a Victorian cupboard knob with the cornice.
Putting together the right combination of accessories and details may take a little time, but it will be time and effort well spent. The great joy of being able to design your own wardrobe is that you don’t have to rush.
That means you can carefully build up the picture of the wardrobe you want and make sure it is exactly what you require before sending us the blueprint. Then, our skilled craftsmanship will transform it into reality.
At the end of this process, you will have a wardrobe that is practical, beautiful and tailor-made for your home, reflecting both your own design efforts and our high-quality materials and manufacturing skill.
