Giffnock, East Renfrewshire
Fitted wardrobes in Giffnock
Bedrooms in Giffnock's villas and bungalows are usually a good size but almost never square, and they frequently have a chimney breast with an alcove on either side. Those alcoves are the most wasted storage space in the house, and they are the easiest thing to fix.
Alcoves either side of the breast
A standard wardrobe cannot use an alcove, because it is the wrong width and the breast is in the way. Building into both alcoves and running a bridging cupboard over the top of the breast gives you a full wall of storage that looks deliberate, uses depth the house already has and does not narrow the room at all.
Nothing in these houses is square
Walls in a house of this age bow, floors run away from level and the two sides of a chimney breast are rarely the same width. Everything gets measured in the room and scribed on site. A flat-pack carcass pushed into that kind of opening leaves tapering gaps down both sides, which is exactly the thing people are trying to get away from.
Bungalow eaves
In the bungalows and any converted attic room, the low eaves space behind the slope is usually empty. Drawers or pull-out units built into it work far better than a cupboard door you have to crawl through, and it is space you are already heating either way.
Matching the rest of the woodwork
These bedrooms often still have the original deep skirting and moulded architrave. We carry the skirting profile across the base of the units and match the door style to the room doors where you want it to disappear into the house rather than stand out from it.