Fitted Wardrobes in Stoke-on-Trent
Built to your measurements and scribed to the room — alcoves, chimney breasts, sloping ceilings and box rooms that nothing off the shelf will ever fit properly.
Made for the room, not adapted to it
Every wardrobe is measured on site and built in our workshop. Nothing is ordered from a catalogue and forced into the gap.
Attic rooms and back-addition bedrooms where the roof cuts across. Doors angled to the slope, drawers under the low side.
Hanging, shelving, drawers, shoe racks and lighting laid out around what you actually own, not a standard split.
A third bedroom too small for a bed makes an excellent dressing room, and frees the master wall completely.
Old houses are not square, and that is the whole point
Put a flat-pack wardrobe against the wall of a Victorian bedroom and you will see the problem within a day. The wall bows, the floor slopes, the skirting stops it sitting back, and you are left with a gap down one side and a strip of dead space above that fills with suitcases.
A fitted wardrobe is measured to the room as it actually is. The carcass is built square, then the end panels, cornice and scribes take up the difference between square and reality — so what you see is a clean line into the wall, the ceiling and the skirting with nothing behind it.
It also uses the full height of the room. In a terrace with 2.6 metre ceilings that is often an extra half a metre of storage per run, which is usually the difference between needing a chest of drawers and not.
Everything is built off site by our joiners, brought in as components and assembled in the room. No flat-pack, no separate fitter who has never seen the drawings, and no waiting on a delivery slot from a national supplier.
Fitted, flat-pack or freestanding?
Freestanding is cheapest and you take it with you. It wastes the space above and behind, and rarely fits an alcove.
Flat-pack fitted from a national retailer sits in the middle. The doors are good, but the carcasses come in standard widths, so an awkward wall means filler panels — and the fitter usually arrives having never seen the room.
Bespoke fitted costs more up front and is not worth it in a modern, square box room where a standard unit will do the job perfectly well.
It is worth it where the room fights you: chimney breasts, sloping ceilings, bay windows, high ceilings and anything pre-war. Most of Stoke, in other words.
What we make
Alcove wardrobes
The pair either side of a chimney breast. The most common job we do in Stoke terraces, and the one standard units never manage.
Sliding door wardrobes
No door swing needed, so they work where the bed is close to the wall. Mirrored panels open a small room up considerably.
Hinged shaker doors
Painted panelled doors that suit period properties. Full access to the whole opening, and repaintable years down the line.
Handleless & modern
Push-catch or J-pull doors in matte finishes. Suits newer properties at Trentham, Blurton and Barlaston.
Over-bed & bridging units
Storage that carries over the headboard, linking two runs. Adds a surprising amount in a small second bedroom.
Walk-in dressing rooms
Open-fronted runs down both walls of a box room, with a mirror and seating at the end. Better use of a room too small to sleep in.
Bedrooms in Stoke-on-Trent houses
Almost every terraced bedroom in Burslem, Tunstall, Longton and Fenton has the same shape: a chimney breast in the centre of one wall with a shallow alcove either side, usually between 700mm and 900mm deep and rarely the same width as each other. That is the classic fitted wardrobe job, and the reason a matched pair has to be measured rather than ordered.
These houses also have high ceilings for their footprint. A run that stops at 2.1 metres, as most flat-pack does, throws away half a metre of usable height across the whole wall — which is exactly the space that ends up holding boxes on top instead.
The third bedroom is the other recurring problem. In a two-up two-down with a later extension, or a 1930s semi, the box room is often too narrow for a bed and a wardrobe together. Turning it into a walk-in frees the main bedroom entirely, and costs less than most people expect.
On the newer estates at Trentham, Barlaston and Blurton the walls are plasterboard rather than solid brick, so fixings have to go into the studwork properly rather than relying on plugs. Different problem, same answer — it gets checked at the survey.
And because our joiners are the same people fitting our kitchens, awkward one-off pieces are routine rather than a special request.
Joiners Stoke-on-TrentWhat do fitted wardrobes cost?
Price follows the width of the run, the door style and how the inside is laid out. Sliding doors cost more than hinged. A painted finish costs more than a melamine one but can be changed later.
Every figure includes design, manufacture, fitting, and making good afterwards — no separate decorator needed once we leave.
Get a Free Quote →Fitted wardrobe questions
How long does it take from first visit to finished?
Usually three to five weeks in total, but only two or three days of that is in your house. We measure and design first, then the units are built off site, which is the bulk of the wait. Fitting itself is quick, and the mess is contained because the cutting has already been done elsewhere.
Sliding or hinged doors for a small bedroom?
Sliding, in most cases. A hinged door needs around 600mm of clear floor in front of it, which in a small Stoke bedroom is often exactly where the bed is. The trade-off is that sliding doors only ever open half the run at once, and the track takes roughly 100mm of internal depth. In an alcove, hinged usually wins because the opening is narrow anyway.
Can you build around a sloping ceiling or a bay window?
Yes — that is precisely where bespoke earns its money. Sloping ceilings get doors cut to the angle with drawers or pull-out shelving under the lowest section, since hanging space is useless below about 1.2 metres. Bays get a run either side with a window seat between them, which is usually the best use of that wall anyway.
Are they made to measure, or standard sizes?
Made to your measurements. The room is surveyed, the units are built to those numbers off site, and scribed to the wall on fitting day. That matters more than it sounds: an awkward width is not a problem, a one-off internal layout costs no more to design, and if something needs adjusting on fitting day the person who built it is the person standing in your bedroom. The same joiners make our kitchen units.
Will I need a decorator afterwards?
No. Making good is part of the job — filling, caulking the scribes, touching in the walls where the old furniture was and finishing the units in the colour you have chosen. Fitting wardrobes almost always exposes a patch of wall that has not seen daylight in twenty years, and leaving that for someone else would be a strange place to stop.
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Fitted wardrobes across North Staffordshire
We design, build and fit throughout Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding towns. Villages around each town are covered too.
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