Closed from Aquarium to Pyramids for Sail GP from Friday until end of the month. Bandstand area/hill, which I know is used a lot by dog walkers, is already fully fenced off with no access at all
Our floor to ceiling is 238cm. We've got a 236cm pax wardrobe in there at the moment, which was built upright.
Looking at upgrading to a couple of wardrobes with sliding doors. However, the Pax Planner won't let us add sliding doors. Apparently you need 240cm of height to install a sliding door (but only 237cm for standard doors).
We really need the sliding doors due to floor space. I've watched a couple of videos online of people building the sliding doors, and can't see why you need 4cm of extra space to attach the doors. Anyone done something similar and can confirm? I could buy the stuff and try it, but obviously a PITA to undo the build.
Only other solution is get a carpenter in (I don't have the tools or the talent) to trim 2cm off the bottom of the wardrobes, and hope that works. Again, anyone have experience of this?
Yes we could get the smaller 201 cm wardrobes, but looking for that floor to ceiling look
The first 2 pictures are current. 3 & 4 are the room layouts we've had in the past and yes, it's the millennial grey. We moved in 5 years ago, hated the pink and sage that was on the walls and just wanted it clean.
So we're struggling to find the optimum layout of our bedroom. When we moved in we placed the bed as you see in picture 3. The end wall had dated fitted wardrobes. The bed in this position felt like an obstacle as you entered the room, meant one side of the bed couldn't have a bedside table and also there was a bottleneck if we found ourselves trying to get past one an other.
We moved to picture 4 layout, with the bed under the window. Much better flow into the room, and gave us maximum amount of storage as we could also use the space to the right of the door as you entered the room for slimline wardrobes/dressing table. However, opening/closing the window became awkward. Still couldn't have a bedside table on the wardrobe side of the bed as it would prevent the doors from opening (Although we could have possibly replaced them with sliding doors)
Fast forward to last weekend. We ripped out the fitted wardrobes, and moved the bed against that wall as shown in picture 1. Now we're trying to work out if we've done the right thing or not.
The flow into the room feels better, although we've lost a lot of storage space. The initial intention was a slim 40cm wardrobe either side of the bed next to a slim 25cm bedside unit. There’s just enough space for this. Then we'd buy new wardrobes (2x1m) for as you enter the room on the right (where the wardrobe/dressing table are now in picture 2), but worried having the wardrobe in your face as you enter the room again might feel like an obstacle.
Partner and I are currently 50/50.
Option 1) Have less storage, keep the room in this configuration, and buy new wardrobes with the intention of making them look built in. Nicer flow navigating the room
Option 2) Move the bed back under the window, put fitted wardrobes back in place, and add sliding doors. Tonnes of storage, less floor space, bed under the window :/
What would you do? Anything else we've not considered? We both know in it's current config we could have extra storage above the bed, but neither of us are keen on a) that look b) having things above our heads when sleeping
EDIT - nearly forgot. The other issue is the design/style of the storage. We love the Pax hacks that make wardrobes look built in. But one either side of the bed would require custom boxes added to the top, raised platforms and might look odd vs every one we’ve seen where it just seems to be the full length of the wall