Swindon · Wiltshire
Bespoke fitted wardrobes in Swindon, made to measure for the room you actually have — sloping ceilings, chimney breasts, out-of-square walls and all. Every wardrobe is designed on a free home visit, built for your space rather than picked from a range, and fitted by the person who made it.
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Made, not ordered
A freestanding wardrobe is built to a standard size and then asked to live in a room that is not a standard size. There is a gap down one side, dead space above it, and a skirting board stopping it sitting flat against the wall. A fitted wardrobe starts from the opposite end: we measure the space, and the wardrobe is made to fit it.
That matters more than it sounds, because almost no bedroom wall is plumb and almost no ceiling is level. The craft in a good fitted wardrobe is not the door — it is the scribing: cutting the carcass, the cornice and the plinth to follow the wall the house actually has. Done properly there is no gap and no line of filler, and the wardrobe looks like it was there when the house was built.
Everything is designed on a free home visit, made for your space, and fitted by the same person who made it. No showroom, no design team, no sales call — just a carpenter, a tape measure and a drawing you can change your mind about.
Styles
Most jobs are a mix. A run of hinged doors along one wall, a sliding pair where the room is tight, and a bank of drawers where a chest used to stand.
The workhorse. Full-height doors on soft-close hinges, a face frame scribed to the wall, cornice to the ceiling and a plinth to the floor. Best where you have room to swing a door and want the full opening — you can see everything you own at once.
Where a bedroom is narrow or a door swing would foul the bed. Top-hung gear runs more quietly and stays truer than bottom-rolling, so that is what we fit. Doors in painted panel, mirror, or timber to match the rest of the room.
A small box room turned over to storage, or the end of a large bedroom partitioned off. Open hanging, shelving and drawer banks with no doors at all — usually the best value per metre, because the fronts are what cost the money.
A pair either side of the breast, each made to its own alcove — because the two are never the same width. The same job as alcove shelving, with doors on the front and a rail inside.
The part nobody else lists
Every fitted wardrobe company in Swindon will tell you the result is beautiful. Here is what is actually in one.
18mm MFC as standard, moisture-resistant MDF where a wall is cold or an external one, and birch ply where the inside of the wardrobe will be on show. Backs are rebated in rather than pinned on, which is the difference between a carcass that stays square and one that racks.
Spray-lacquered MDF for a flat, even finish, or hand-painted on site in a Farrow & Ball or Little Greene colour so it matches the woodwork already in the room. In timber: oak, ash or walnut, veneered for wide flat doors and solid for framing and beading.
Blum or Hettich throughout — soft-close hinges, soft-close drawer runners on full extension, and top-hung sliding gear. Named brands, because the hinge is the part of a wardrobe you touch several times a day for twenty years.
Scribed fillets to walls that are out of plumb, packing and levelling on floors that are not flat, cornice and plinth cut to the room. Fixings into studwork or resin-anchored into masonry, never into plasterboard alone.
Single or double hanging rails, adjustable shelves, drawer banks, shoe racks, pull-down rails for a high run, trouser rails and integrated mirrors. Laid out around what you actually own — we ask, and it changes the design every time.
LED strip to the underside of a shelf or the top of the opening, on a door switch or a sensor. Anything that involves a new spur is signed off by a registered electrician under Part P — we do not wire it ourselves and call it done.
How it works
Alex comes to you, looks at the room, measures it and talks through what you need to store. No charge, no obligation, and no design fee to write off later.
A drawing and a written price, itemised so you can see what the doors cost against the internals. Change it as many times as you like before you commit.
Carcasses and fronts made up, typically two to four weeks. Painted finishes take a little longer because each coat has to cure properly.
One to two days on site for a standard run. Floors covered, dust sheeted, and the room left swept and clear at the end of every day.
Local knowledge
Swindon’s housing stock is unusually easy to read, and each kind of house presents the same problem to the next wardrobe that goes into it.
The Railway Village terraces off Emlyn Square are listed, with tight chimney-breast alcoves, low ceilings and walls that have moved since 1850. Nothing standard fits them, and fixing into historic fabric is worth a conversation before anyone drills anything — a listed building or conservation area consent is the owner’s to obtain and we will tell you when we think you need one.
The interwar and postwar semis in Rodbourne, Gorse Hill and Stratton St Margaret have the classic shallow box room over the stairs — too small for a freestanding wardrobe, ideal for a full-height fitted one with a shallower carcass and sliding doors.
The estates built from the seventies onwards — Freshbrook, Toothill, Shaw, Abbey Meads, Priory Vale — have standardised bedroom footprints, which is good news: we have solved that exact room before. Their loft rooms almost always have a slope on one side, which is the single best argument for having a wardrobe made rather than bought.
And in Old Town, the Victorian stock has the height to make a full-height wardrobe genuinely worth it — often a metre of usable storage above what a freestanding unit would have reached.
Cost
Most wardrobe companies will not put a number on a page. Here is a real one, so you know before you invite anybody into your house.
| What you are having | Guide price per metre |
|---|---|
| Open alcove wardrobe, painted, hanging rail and shelf | from £600 |
| Hinged doors, painted, rail and adjustable shelving | £900 – £1,200 |
| Hinged doors with internal drawer bank and lighting | £1,100 – £1,400 |
| Sliding doors, top-hung gear, mirrored or panelled | £1,200 – £1,600 |
| Solid oak, ash or walnut fronts | from £1,600 |
What moves the price: the number of doors, the finish, how much goes on the inside, and how far out of square the room is. What does not: the survey, the drawing or the quote — all free. Fuller detail in our guide to fitted wardrobe costs.
Questions
As a working guide, a painted fitted wardrobe with hinged doors, hanging rails and shelves runs from roughly £900 to £1,400 per linear metre, fitted. Sliding doors, drawer banks, internal lighting and hardwood fronts push it up; a simple alcove wardrobe in a box room comes in under it. The only honest number comes after a free home survey, because the price is driven by how far out of square the room is as much as by what goes in the wardrobe.
Yes, and it is one of the main reasons to have one made rather than bought. Loft rooms and 1970s estate houses around Freshbrook, Toothill and Abbey Meads very often have a slope on one side. The carcass is built square, the top rail is cut to the pitch of the ceiling, and a scribed fillet closes the gap so nothing needs packing out with filler.
Usually two to four weeks from the design being signed off to the fitting date, then one to two days on site for a standard run. Hand-painted fronts add time because the paint has to cure properly between coats.
It stays. A fitted wardrobe is built into the fabric of the room, scribed to the walls and fixed back to the studwork, so it is part of the house and part of the sale. If you want storage that travels with you, freestanding is the right answer and we will say so.
Yes — Royal Wootton Bassett, Highworth, Purton, Wroughton, Blunsdon, Wanborough and Cricklade are all within normal working distance, along with Swindon itself across the SN1 to SN6 postcodes.
What customers say
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Alex delivered a bit of an unconventional project for us, conversion of a vintage horse box trailer to a home office. I'm delighted with the result. Alex is enthusiastic, creative, and skilfull. He worked hard to achieve a high quality outcome. Highly recommended.
5 out of 5
Awesome work from Alex, great attention to detail, thorough in getting the job done, and he cleaned up after himself as well - wouldn't hesitate to recommend (fitted architrave and skirting around our three bed bungalow)
5 out of 5
Had wooden back gate made by Alex for side of property. Excellent craftsmanship and quality gate made of high grade materials fixtures and fittings as required to make it very secure.
Tell Alex what you are thinking and he will come and measure up. Free survey, free drawing, written quote — and no obligation at the end of it.