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Designing your Fitted Bedroom : The Decision Making Process

When designing your DIY assembly Fitted Bedroom, there are a number of points you should take into consideration:

Construction: Full Carcass or Front Frame
The two options for the construction of your wardrobes are discussed in details below.
Styles, Colours and Finishes:
We offer a vast selection of Fitted Wardrobe Designs and Styles. Browse our Galleries or shop by price or style.
What storage and how much?:
Consider factors such as hanging space, drawers and low-level storage. We also provide Wardrobe Interiors and Storage Solutions to complement your chosen design. Consider the Combination Robe; offering both wardrobe and drawer storage space in a single compact 900mm unit.
Design and plan your space online:
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We will deliver to your door, ready for DIY assembly by you or your handyman.

A bedroom may be designed with wardrobes only, or the design could include other furniture such as bedside cabinets, drawers, tall boys, and dressing tables. Certain components are usually included in a standard bedroom layout:

Wardrobes with shelves and hanging rails
Fillers to walls and ceiling

Various optional items can be added, if required:

Cornice
Plinth
Extra hanging rails
Internal accessories (mirrors, drawers, wirework, etc).
Drawer packs
Floor cupboards
Shelving
Lighting

This guide includes information on standard wardrobes, low level furniture, accessories, and basic design.

Full Carcass or Front Frame?

Full Carcass

Full Carcase wardrobes includes door fronts and carcass backs, sides, top, middle shelf, base and hanging rail. Benefits and drawbacks include:

Completely freestanding;
Shelf and Hanging bar included;
Includes base, back and top panels - you can't see your floor and walls when you open the wardrobe doors.

See detailed Full Carcass Fitted Wardrobe information.

Front Frame

No internal panels - Lower cost, but you will see your walls when you open the doors;
Good for dealing with bedroom obstacles such as chimney breasts, but you will see your back wall inside the wardrobe;
Installation requires a little more sizing and cutting of filler panels.

See detailed Front Frame Fitted Wardrobe information.

Full Carcass AND Front Frame

The two can be combined when building around chimney breasts, for example.

Wardrobe Sizes and Specifications

All standard robes are available as Full Robes, or as Add On Robes (for both Full Carcass and Front Frame);
Single robes come in three possible door widths: 400mm, 450mm or 500mm;
Double robes come in three possible widths: 800mm, 900mm or 1000mm;
All wardrobe internals are Pear in colour;
External finish is available in Pear, White, Ivory, Walnut, Dark Walnut or Oak;
Choose from a range of handles at no extra cost.

Choosing Floor Level Units

Low and High Level floor units are available in all standard ranges;
Units are available in four standard widths: 300mm, 400mm, 500mm or 800mm;
Double robes come in three possible widths: 800mm, 900mm or 1000mm;
All wardrobe internals are Pear in colour;
External finish is available in Pear, White, Ivory, Walnut, Dark Walnut or Oak;
Choose from a range of handles at no extra cost.

Click here for detailed information about Chests and Cupboards.

Plinth, Cornice and Pelmet

Decorative Plinth (at floor level - for robes and low and high level furniture), Cornice (at ceiling level - for full height robes and bridging units) and Pelmet (under bridging units) can be ordered as an optional extra to cover the joins where units meet. The rewuired length for thse items is automatcially calculated for you by the online Design Tool. These items can also be ordered directly from our online Fitted Bedroom Furniture store.

Counter Tops

All of our chests and cupboards (except finished furniture packs), are supplied WITHOUT worktops by default. This is to allow you to place 2 or 3 next to each other, and then add one long top over ALL of the units, leaving you with no visible gaps (a truly fitted product).

Countertops are supplied with coordinating edging tape, so if you need to cut, they can be finished afterward. Supplied in a number of lengths depending on your requirements.

Our design tool will automatically calculate the amount of worktop you require (with as few joins as possible) when you add your bedroom design to the basket.

Full Carcass Wardrobes: Detailed

A full carcase wardrobe contains all the items required to create a 'freestanding' wardrobe: a top panel, shelf, base panel, back panel, and hanging rail. It is like a freestanding wardrobe that you would buy from a furniture shop. Handles are included 'free of charge', but must be ordered separately as you can have any handle you choose.

A	Universal End Panels
B	Top and Bottom Rails
C	Back Panel
D	Top, Bottom and Shelf Panels
E	Back Rails
F	Doors
G	Hanging Rail

Full carcase wardrobes are more expensive than front frame wardrobes, because they contain more material.

Front Frame Wardrobes: Detailed

A front frame wardrobe only includes door supports (A,B,C) and doors (D). The rest of the components, including hanging rails and end panels, must be ordered separately. Usually, the wall and floor will be exposed inside the wardrobe. The front frame is attached to the centre shelf, and then to the wall and / or end panel.

A	Uprights
B	Top and Bottom Rails
C	Floor and Top Filler
D	Doors
E	Base shelf and supports (optional)
F	Wall shelf with L shaped support
G	Shelf support panel
H	Top shelf with support (optional)
I	Top shelf support panel (optional)

Addon Wardrobes

When more than one robe is used in a run, add-on robes are recommended. Add-on robes are available for both full carcase and for front frame wardrobes.

If two full robes (full carcass or front-frame) are used side by side, then there would be two robe sides next to each other. The extra robe side / upright is unnecessary and wasteful, and will result in a large unsightly gap between the doors.
As an alternative to this waste situation, instead of full carcase robes or front frame robes, we can supply add-on robes, which only contain one internal robe side / upright. The external sides / uprights from the original robe is moved from the original robe to the end of the run.

Chest and Cupboard Units: Detailed

Floor cupboards and drawers are available with various combinations of doors and drawers, in three heights:

Low Level Unit

High Level Unit

Tallboy Unit

Countertops and handles must be ordered separately.
Generally, the high level units are used as bedside cabinets or to construct desks or vanity units.
Low level units are often as bedside units or to create window seats.
Decorative plinth to match that used in conjunction with robes.

Alternatively, bedroom furniture packs are available, which combine units with countertops and panels to create complete units and dressing tables. Please note: Handles are free-of-charge, but must still be ordered separately, even when using furniture sets; the online design tool calculates the correct number of handles for you and adds them to your order.

Bridging Units

Briding units are generally used to bridge between robes, either above a bed or over a dressing table. The cupboard is hung from the wall using brackets.

Full-depth bridging units require a Bridging Cupboard Top Rail for support. Our online design tool calculates the length required and adds it to your order. Reduced depth units do not require the top rail.
Optionally, order a 592mm deep filler panel to cover joins on the underside of the units.
Optionally, choose a Pelmet if required.
Handles are free-of-charge, but must be ordered separately. If you use our online design tool, all handles will be added to your order automatically.

Bedroom Design: Key Points

Full carcass and Front Frame can be combined in one run, to avoid cutting wardrobes around obstacles like chimney breasts and soil stacks.
Add-on units are always 18mm shorter in length than a full robe (because they only have one panel).
If a run of units is between two walls, you will need to allow for an Pelmet Robe Infill Panel (minimum of 50mm) at each end of the run.
If a run of units is between one wall and an end panel, you need to allow for a single Pelmet Robe Infill Panel, at the wall end of the run.
If a run of front frame units in longer than 2000mm, you will require an additional internal panel every 2000mm.
If the floor to ceiling height is lower than the standard 2280mm, a maximum of 50mm can be removed from the top and bottom of the carcass. In this instance, the door will reach from floor to ceiling and it will not be possible to fit Cornice or Plinth.
In the event the floor to ceiling height is greater than 2280mm, you can build up to ceiling height using Pelmet Robe Infill Panel which are supplied in 50mm, 75mm, 150mm, 300mm and 592mm widths by 2750mm length.

Fitted Bedroom Interiors and Accessories

A wide range of internals and accessories are available for bedrooms, including wirework, mirrors, stools, and lighting.

We can supply extra shelves and hanging rails to break up the space within a wardrobe and increase the storage options. If you need extra internal dividers, use Pelmet Robe Infill Panel or Internal Divider.

A soft close storage system, consisting of clip on storage accessories on a soft close frame, is available for use in full carcase robes.

Low energy lighting is available for use inside and outside furniture. Refer to the spec book and separate design buster for details.

Countertops are available in different finishes to suit the range. Refer to the spec book for more information.

Corner Situations


Stable Robe	Corner Robe	Diagonal Robe
A stable robe is used to turn the corner when low level furniture is required. The robe includes a 696mm low level corner post. The corner post can be cut down to 573mm if required.	A corner robe is used to turn the corner in a continuous run of robes. A full height corner post is included. It is not possible to hang a door from a cornerpost, so the robe butting up to the corner post must be a full robe (not an add-on).	A diagonal robe is another option for continuing a run of robes round a corner. Diagonal robes are available as full robes, which fill the corner and have a panel between the corner and the next unit, or as front frame, so the space behind the doors is continuous. The robes butting up to the corner must be full robes (not add-ons).