Portland Wardrobe

Double wardrobe buyer’s guide

Small bedrooms can be difficult to furnish because you need to fit all the necessary storage options along with the bed into a limited floor area. If the room’s one that’s used all the time rather than as a guest bedroom, a double wardrobe is a must-have to create adequate hanging storage for clothes, and keep them in good condition and dust-free. We don’t advise keeping clothes on an open rail for just this reason. However, because a chest of drawers for T-shirts, jumpers and small items is an essential as well, and as many homes have bedrooms more compact than is ideal, we offer a double wardrobe with drawers underneath. With this clever design, you get the benefit of both pieces of furniture but you need only use up the floor space once. It can be a much better solution than two separate pieces of furniture that run the risk of making the room feel cramped – or simply don’t fit at all. With a double wardrobe there’s still plenty of hanging space above, and the chest below is roomy enough to avoid the crush that can leave items crumpled and unwearable when you get them out.

The flexible design of a wardrobe with drawers

The top portion of our wardrobe with drawers offers lots of hanging space from the rail, with a drop of 94cm. Underneath are three spacious drawers that will allow plenty of space for folded clothes. The wardrobe with drawers will fit neatly into a small bedroom: the overall dimensions are W:95cm D:63cm H:186cm. But as well as being a clever two-in-one wardrobe, we’ve also designed the wardrobe with drawers so it functions as a fabulously useful laundry cupboard. If you want to use it in this way, you can make space to stash linens by ordering the top section with shelves instead of the hanging rail. The shelves are adjustable, allowing you to position them at the height that will accommodate piles of bed linen, out-of-season duvets, bedspreads and eiderdowns, or stocks of clean towels.

Style choices for wardrobes with drawers

As well as specifying the interior for wardrobes with drawers, picking from a hanging rail in the top portion of the wardrobe to create hanging space or adjustable shelves, you can get an individual look for the exterior when you choose one of these multi-tasking pieces of furniture. Check out our selection of elegant paint colours, which include pale shades, mid tones, and darker hues. You might want to go for maximum light reflection with white or ivory paint to help a small bedroom feel bigger. Or you could choose an on-trend dark neutral or shade of grey for your wardrobe with doors. A mid blue finish can look pretty – and especially suits a modern country style bedroom or perhaps bathroom if you’re using a wardrobe with drawers for linens. Don’t count out dark colours like our barely black or inky blue for wardrobes with drawers, though, as they can make a modern statement.

Quality double wardrobe with drawers

We make our double wardrobe with drawers from durable MDF. It’s a material that’s ideally suited for furniture making as it’s stable and unaffected by natural changes in humidity so you can count on a carefully built double wardrobe with drawers like ours to last for many years to come. It’s also the ideal base for our painted finishes, and with a wide choice of colours – or the option to paint your double wardrobe with drawers yourself – it means it’s easy to match in with other cabinet furniture finishes in the bedroom.