Shaker fitted wardrobe — Clapton, E5

A floor-to-ceiling shaker wardrobe run with mixed interior — hanging, drawers, shelves and dedicated shoe storage — fitted into the master bedroom of a Clapton Victorian terrace.

Location

Clapton, London E5

Work type

fitted wardrobes

On site

4 days

The problem

The bedroom was the typical Clapton Victorian-terrace master — long but narrow, with a coved ceiling at 2.7m, original picture rail still in place, and just enough floor area for a queen bed with two clear walls of storage. An off-the-shelf Pax wouldn't have used the ceiling height or worked around the coving, and the client's storage brief mixed clothing, shoes and a small home-office footprint.

The solution

A continuous wardrobe run along one full wall, with three door bays — two for hanging and drawers, one with internal shoe pigeonholes. Doors stop just below the picture rail and are scribed to the coving above; the cabinet face is held proud by 15mm so the picture rail reads cleanly. Soft-close on every door and drawer; brushed-steel cup pulls picked to match the cup pulls on the bedroom door's original hardware.

Materials & finish

18mm Egger Eurodekor MFC carcass, MDF shaker doors in five-piece construction painted Farrow & Ball Pavilion Gray (No. 242) two-coat sprayed in the workshop, Blum CLIP top BLUMOTION soft-close hinges, Blum TANDEM soft-close drawer runners, brushed-steel cup pulls from Armac Martin.

Outcome

Roughly 1.4m³ of additional storage gained without losing floor area, and the wall reads as architectural rather than as added furniture. Three-and-a-half days on-site after a four-week workshop lead.

A floor-to-ceiling shaker wardrobe with hanging space, large drawers, shelves and shoe pigeonholes, fitted along one full wall of a Clapton master bedroom. Doors scribed to the original coving above the picture rail; soft-close on every door and drawer.