1. Prioritise your budget
Budgeting is a core part of designing a custom wardrobe. Most people think that budgeting is just about managing money, but there's more to it than that. The key is prioritising where you spend and where you save. By saving money on design elements that are less important to you, you leave more money to spend elsewhere. For example, you could fit solid wood wardrobe doors into your budget by using a more cost-effective material for the interior. Prioritising where you spend your money allows you to make the most of your budget.
2. Assess your bedroom
If you want a coherent style in your bedroom, your wardrobe needs to be consistent with the rest of the room. To achieve this, you must assess your bedroom interior design. There are three main points you want to identify.
Firstly, you want to identify any common colours. Most bedrooms will have one or more colours that feature prominently in their interior design. This includes everything from the walls to the furniture. Common colours are one of the things that tie a design together. Keeping these colours in mind, either by matching or contrasting them, allows your custom wardrobe to fit within the existing design.
Secondly, you want to consider the materials. Each material has its own unique look and texture. Much like colours, materials can tie a design together. Because of this, referencing materials used elsewhere in the room creates a link between the wardrobe and the interior design.
Lastly, you want to identify a theme in the design. This could be anything from a time period to a culture. The theme could even be a specific feeling. Outside of just colours and materials, a theme is created from every element within a design. Shape language, manufacturing techniques, symbolism, and more work together to reference a theme. In more abstract terms, the theme is what you think of when you look at the design. Some common examples of stylistic themes are modernism, vintage, rustic, and minimalism.
3. Choose the right type of wardrobe
The type of wardrobe you choose significantly influences the rest of the wardrobe design. You want to choose a type of wardrobe that meets both your practical and stylistic needs. The three main types of wardrobes are free-standing wardrobes, built-in wardrobes, and walk-in wardrobes.
Free-standing wardrobes generally have the least storage space out of the three main types. They are also the only type of wardrobe that can be moved. Stylistically, their biggest advantage is that they have a lot of external surface area compared to their size. This allows for much more freedom in how you design the exterior. You even have options for the shape of the wardrobe. Custom wardrobes can make the most of these advantages to create something truly unique.
Built-in wardrobes are the most space efficient of the three main types. They are a great choice for maximising the storage potential of the available space. While not as much as other wardrobes, there are still many ways to customise a built-in wardrobe. The two main ways are the interior and the wardrobe doors. Wardrobe doors are very versatile. Depending on your needs, they can either blend in with the room or add visual interest. As for the interior, you can customise it to further optimise the available storage space. Overall, built-in wardrobes are a practical choice for anyone who values effective storage.
Walk-in wardrobes are the biggest of the three main types. They have enough space to walk in. This gives them ample storage space. Though, it isn't used as efficiently as in walk-in wardrobes. The sheer size of walk-in wardrobes gives off a feeling of luxury and provides many opportunities to customise the layout. If you want to emphasise the practical aspect of your wardrobe, you could customise it to maximise storage space. If you value aesthetics more, you could instead customise the layout to fit a particular style or show off your clothes. If you have the available space, a walk-in wardrobe is a flexible choice that can suit a variety of needs.
4. Create visual interest
The final tip for designing custom wardrobes is to create visual interest. Visual interest, as the name implies, is intended to make something interesting to look at. There are countless ways to create visual interest. You could use anything from colours to patterns. When creating visual interest, there are two things to be wary of.
The first is that you want to avoid overcrowding the design. Rather than interesting, it can be overwhelming when you try to incorporate too many ideas into a design. A good comparison would be listening to several songs at the same time. Although all the individual songs are nice to listen to, there's too much going on to appreciate any of them.
The second thing to be wary of is overshadowing the rest of the room. This makes everything else look uninteresting by comparison, detracting from the overall design.
As long as you avoid these two things, visual interest can elevate both your wardrobe design and your room as a whole.
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