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To a certain extent, the physical architecture of your bedroom will dictate your wardrobe choices. If your room is dotted with nooks and crannies, a fitted wardrobe may smooth out the wall and exploit the room’s natural space too.

Decide early on if there are going to be physical changes to the room, such as a division of the sleeping area from the rest of the room, or a walk-in wardrobe. Structural changes have an impact on the room’s light, so plan carefully. Be particularly wary if your room only has one light source. Even partially blocking it can have unforeseen consequences.

Fully-fitted wardrobes are handy as they use all the available space, but they can tend to dominate a room. They can turn an uneven wall into a more pleasing single, smooth surface. However, using separate pieces of furniture can give a room a more individual feel – built-in wardrobes can often be soulless and utilitarian.

Beware the contemporary wardrobe, built floor to ceiling in a tall-ceiling-ed room, towering over its quaking occupants! Great expanses of doors can be broken up by using mirrors (either partial or full) which will lighten a room as well as breaking up the doors’ lines.

Built-in or integrated bedroom wardrobes are the most efficient storage in terms of use of available space, and can be made bespoke to your own unique requirements. They’ll fit your room’s unique architecture and so leave no valuable space unused. They are, on the whole, more expensive than free-standing models, and the best fitted wardrobes need the attentions of craftsmen to ensure their perfect measurement and fit: this does not come cheap!

Perhaps the least expensive wardrobe is a simple corner or alcove that you fit with a clothes rail and then curtain off. The fabric you choose for the curtain can be an integral part of the room’s design. Even the heaviest fabric however will not afford the same protection against dust offered by a solid wardrobe. On the plus side, ad hoc wardrobes are easy to move around as they assemble and disassemble very quickly and so will suit those with mobile lifestyles, such as people who work away from home and students. It’s worth remembering that wardrobes are a relatively new invention. Up to the end of the Tudor period, a curtained alcove was the de rigeur place to store clothes.

There remains one last option when considering which of the many styles of contemporary wardrobes to install: a clothes tent. Used in the past by campaigning soldiers (especially the officer class), a rigid frame of wood or metal is covered on four sides and roof with fabric. Cloth shelves and clothes hang from the frame, the shelves holding smaller items while the larger items (dress uniforms?) hang full length. Doors are fabric, held back with tie-backs, and the whole thing is pretty easily disassembled and moved around, although clearly not as easily as our ad hoc clothes pole and curtain affair.

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If you’ve plenty of space in your bedroom, you should think about installing a walk in wardrobe. They are fairly easy to construct (simple ’stud’ walls are the basis) or can be bought ready-made, or installed by a specialist company. Whichever you choose, give good consideration to using all the available space, including the entrance way into the wardrobe, and even the space above the door (assuming there is one). An open-plan walk-in contemporary wardrobe is a real ‘wow’ in any bedroom, but is really only for those with lots and lots of room.

Inside your walk-in wardrobe, the walls can be fitted with all sorts of storage areas: tie and shoe racks, shelves, drawers and both short and long hanging areas. Lighting is essential; try and position the wardrobe so it gets as much ambient light as possible, but you’ll probably need to supplement with spot lighting – very effective as well as being very stylish.

With a standalone or fitted contemporary wardrobe, be aware that their long doors can be very imposing – this might be an undesired effect. Wardrobe doors’ impact can be softened by replacing their panels with areas of pleated cloth, creating an armoire effect. Or you could replace expanses of wardrobe doors’ wood with a lattice, some fretwork or a grille. Then, the backs of the doors can be lined with an attractive fabric. Wardrobes are large objects, and will always vie for attention with a bedroom’s other big piece, the bed. The design of both therefore should be complementary. A battle raging in the bedroom between the two is never pretty.

Most bedroom wardrobes have either hinged or sliding doors. Doors that aren’t decorated in any way create smooth lines and clean, clear expanses. In a contemporary setting this can work very well indeed, where uninterrupted lines are attractive. If your bedroom’s style is more ‘period’ however, it’s a good idea to break up those lines either by decoration, use of fabrics or choosing hinged doors that open in sections. The eye will therefore be able to dwell on detail, rather than be swept away by an uncluttered finish.

Walk in wardrobes are costly; perhaps the cheapest way to store clothes is with a standalone wardrobe. However, cheap does not necessarily mean a compromise in quality. There are of course limitless wonderful contemporary designs that would be a positive asset to any bedroom.

Consider the siting of your wardrobe: does it really need to go in your bedroom at all? It’s only since Victorian times that we’ve shared our bedrooms with our clothes. Previously it was thought very unhygienic to sleep in the same space as our clothes. Wardrobes were placed, if not in separate dressing rooms, on the landing outside the bedchamber. Having a wardrobe upstairs on the landing made aesthetic sense too, as its proportions were better suited to the landing and stairwell than to a smaller bedroom.

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