fitting a wardobe

blushingbride_3

Hi.

Behind the door in our spare room is a space 230cm wide where i have been considering having a wardrobe installed.
Either sliding doors or wooden hinged doors.

We desperately need storage as we've had the garage converted and have lost our understairs storage etc.

I would like to know what the cheapest option would be as this is not our forever home, probably 2yrs max

I have some DIY skills but not bril & have a carpenter friend who often helps me for a good rate :T

Advice greatly appreciated

ormus

try argos or ikea for cheap/ish flat pack wardrobes.
from 60 to 200 quid for a double size.

blushingbride_3

only think is i want to store boxes etc so ideally want shelves i know these wardrobes are a bit cheap & crappy

ormus

ikea billy bookcases then?

blushingbride_3

yes i will look @ them, i need to store bedding etc.

Am considering the maine range of cupboards in argos which everyone says are good, just depends on the size of the storage space

andrew-b

I could have written this post pretty much word for word myself as it's something i've been looking into over the last few days!

blushingbride wrote: »

Behind the door in our spare room is a space 230cm wide where i have been considering having a wardrobe installed.

..ditto...with 9 cm more though! In mine the location is in a corner so one end panel required.

Either sliding doors or wooden hinged doors.

Ditto... have looked into sliding doors and them seem pretty pricey. For example have a look at screwfix's built-in wardrobes (they have a website dedicated to them). Also look in Argos as they have some sliding door systems..again expensive. I also had a look at SLIK wardrobe sliding mechanisms made via stormguard though they seem to have a limitation in height of doors..i don't quite get why though and think i might get away with doors going to pretty much the full room height.

We desperately need storage as we've had the garage converted and have lost our understairs storage etc.

We don't have a garage, no understairs storage as bungalow, linen cupboard is a strange shape and not big enough to fit much in. Plus having just got married OH wants somewhere to keep her wedding dress..with your nickname you might know about this!

I would like to know what the cheapest option would be as this is not our forever home, probably 2yrs max
I have some DIY skills but not bril & have a carpenter friend who often helps me for a good rate :T

i'm thinking hinged doors is a cheaper solution ...though obviously it depends whether there is room to open the door. As i've got some DIY skills though i'm considering making from scratch.

Ours is complicated a little by the fact that we have coving around the room and the need for the end panel. What i'm thinking of doing is fixing up a timber framework, skin the end panel in plasterboard, skin a strip at the top front in plasterboard and attach coving around the top, then get some MDF sheeting cut to size for the doors (if i'm feeling adventurous might do what my Dad has done for our bathroom vanity unit and stick 6mm MDF round the edge to create a "shaker"-style doors) - probably 4 or 5 doors. From experience with bathroom cabinet making i'd probably go for 15mm MDF with 3 or 4 kitchen cupboard concealed hinges per door.

Then i'm thinking the plasterboard to save plastering costs just line with lining paper and paint to match walls, doors paint with suitable oil-based paint (or maybe cupboard door paint which i'm using on our bathroom cabinets - expensive but seem hardwearing with Teflon in it).

We don't really need much hanging space..mainly shelf space for alot of DIY gear, books, bedding and all the usual clutter found around a house! So the shelfs i'd probably make myself from 15 or 18mm furniture panel - maybe with a bracketing system so i can change the arrangement of shelves easily. Screwfix do quite alot of hardware suitable for cabinet making.

I've not got round to pricing this all up yet so not sure on costs..but i'm hoping i can stick to less than a few hundred quid.

Andy