Fitted Wardrobes in Chesterfield
Fitted wardrobes for Chesterfield bedrooms, made to the room rather than to an average one. Into the alcoves either side of a chimney breast, across a full wall, under a sloping ceiling or as a walk-in — built in our workshop and fitted by NVQ Level 3 joiners.
- Est. 30+ years' trade experience
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery
- Fully insured
- All trades in-house
- Rated 5.0 on Google (6 reviews)
- Distance from us
- about ten miles — around twenty-five minutes by road
- Survey usually within
- a few days
- Travel charge
- None anywhere inside our 30-mile radius
- Trades on the job
- All ours — no subcontractors
How Do We Approach Fitted Wardrobes in Chesterfield?
Most Chesterfield bedrooms were not designed with wardrobes in mind. The post-war semis at Newbold, Hasland, Walton and Whittington have a chimney breast on one wall, a window on the next and a door on the third, which leaves nowhere for a freestanding wardrobe wider than a metre. The terraces at Brampton and Ashgate have high ceilings that a bought wardrobe stops a third of the way up. The 1930s houses have a front bedroom with a bay and a rear one with a sloping ceiling where the roof comes down. Fitted wardrobes solve all of those because they are made to the actual wall.
What you get is storage that reaches the ceiling, fills the alcove to the wall with no gap for dust and lost socks, and — because it is built in — reads as part of the house rather than furniture standing in it.
Which Wardrobe Suits Which Chesterfield Bedroom
In the post-war semis the natural answer is a pair of wardrobes into the chimney-breast alcoves, with a bridging unit over the breast itself if you want the whole wall used, or a full-width run with the chimney breast absorbed inside the carcass. Either recovers a surprising amount of floor.
In the Victorian and Edwardian houses at Brampton and Ashgate the wardrobes go to the full ceiling height — often over two and a half metres — with a top cupboard for the things you use twice a year, and doors proportioned to the room rather than to a standard 2.2 metre carcass. We match the skirting where the original survives.
In the 1930s semis and the newer housing around the edges of town it is usually a full wall of sliding or hinged doors in the main bedroom, sometimes a walk-in where a box room adjoins, and in the rear bedrooms a run built under the sloping ceiling that no bought wardrobe can use at all.
What are we asked for most?
- Alcove and full-width wardrobes around the chimney breast in the post-war semis
- Ceiling-height wardrobes with top cupboards in the Brampton and Ashgate terraces
- Sloping-ceiling and eaves wardrobes in the 1930s houses, using space nothing else can
- Walk-in wardrobes and dressing rooms where a box room can be given up
What Does Our Fitted Wardrobes Include?
Every fitted wardrobes job Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens takes on covers all 10 parts of the work, from strip-out and first fix to making good and the final clean, carried out by one in-house team of seven trades. See the full list of what is included.
Should the doors be hinged or sliding?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens fits both, and in a Chesterfield bedroom the deciding factor is usually the bed. Hinged doors open the whole wardrobe at once and suit a room with clear floor in front; sliding doors suit a post-war semi bedroom where the bed is close, though they need a little more depth, so we allow roughly 650mm front to back rather than the 600mm a hinged wardrobe needs. The doors are painted to your colour or veneered in oak, walnut or a timber to match the room.
How is the inside of the wardrobe planned?
Around what you own: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens plans each Chesterfield wardrobe interior from the ratio of hanging to folding, whether you need a full-height section for coats and dresses, and where the drawers and shoe storage go. Double hanging rails suit shirts and jackets; long hanging needs about 1.5m of drop. Getting that right at the drawing stage means the wardrobe works on the first morning rather than after a year of rearranging.
What is the difference between fitted and assembled?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens builds Chesterfield wardrobes in our own workshop and scribes them to your walls and ceiling on the day, which is different from a flat-pack carcass assembled in the room and finished with filler strips. The gaps you see along the wall and ceiling of a wardrobe that is fitted in name only are the gaps we do not leave.
How long does fitting take?
Once the wardrobe is made, Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens usually needs three to seven working days in a Chesterfield house: an alcove pair at the shorter end, a full-width or sloping-ceiling run with a bridging unit at the longer, including the scribing and the final coat of paint on site. You get the dates with the quote, and because our base in Creswell is twenty-five minutes away, any adjustment after the doors have settled is a short trip.
Where Else Near Chesterfield Do We Fit Joinery?
- Dronfield — about thirteen miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Staveley — about seven miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Eckington — about nine miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Bolsover — about five miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Barlborough — about five miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
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