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What drives the cost of a fitted wardrobe
There is no price list on this site, and this page explains why — along with the six things that actually move the number up and down, so you can work out roughly where you sit before anyone visits.
Every fitted wardrobe quote comes down to the same handful of variables. None of them is a secret, and knowing which ones apply to your room will tell you more than a headline price ever could.
What a quote is actually made of
1. How long the run is
The most obvious one, and the least interesting. Price scales fairly predictably with width, because it is more carcass, more doors and more material.
2. How tall it goes
Floor to ceiling costs more than stopping at two metres, but it is usually the better buy: the space above a short wardrobe is the space you paid for and cannot use.
3. What goes inside
This is the one people underestimate. Hanging rails are cheap. Drawers are not — every drawer is a small box with runners and a front that has to line up with its neighbours. A wardrobe that is mostly drawers costs considerably more than the same wardrobe with rails.
4. The doors
Hinged doors are the straightforward option. Sliding doors cost more because the gear and the tracks cost more, and they only make sense where there is no room to swing a door open — which, in a small bedroom, is often the case.
5. The finish
MFC arrives already finished in the colour you choose, so the price is in the board. A painted job is built from MDF and then painted, which is a second trade and a second visit, so it costs more. Neither is better; they are different jobs.
6. What the room throws at it
A square room with plumb walls is quick. A chimney breast, a sloping ceiling, a floor that has dropped 20mm across the run, a boxed-in pipe: each one is more scribing, more packing and more time on site.
How the quote happens
Someone comes out, measures the room properly — height at both ends and in the middle, depth top and bottom, and the floor checked for level — and talks through what you want to put away. That conversation changes the design more than anything else.
The price then comes by email, so you have it in writing and can read it twice without anyone sitting in your front room waiting for an answer. The visit and the quote are free and there is no obligation at the end of it.
If you go ahead, a 50% deposit is taken and the balance is due on completion. That is written on the bottom of every quote, not buried.
When not to buy one
If the room is square, you have plenty of space and you may move within a year or two, a free-standing wardrobe is cheaper and it comes with you when you go. Fitted furniture earns its money when the space is the problem: an alcove either side of a chimney breast, a sloping loft ceiling, a ceiling too high for anything you can buy. In those rooms it is not a luxury version of a free-standing wardrobe, it is the only thing that uses the space at all.
Questions
Why is there no price list on this site?
Because any number here would be wrong for most people reading it. The same wall in two different houses is two different jobs once you account for height, what goes inside and whether the floor is level. A price list would either be so hedged it told you nothing, or so specific it was misleading.
Can you give me a rough idea before you visit?
We need to see the room to price it properly, and the visit and the quote are both free with no obligation. Tell us the measurements and what you want and we can tell you whether you are in the right area before anyone commits to a visit.
How do you take payment?
A 50% deposit when you decide to go ahead, and the balance on completion. It is written on the bottom of every quote.
Is a fitted wardrobe always worth more than a free-standing one?
No, and see “when not to buy one” above. Fitted earns its money when the space is the problem, not when the room is already a usable rectangle.
Want to know what your room would cost?
Send the measurements and a photo. The visit and the quote are free, and the price comes by email.