Plywood Eaves Wardrobe (with the giant drawers of dreams and Fenix laminate fronts)
So many of us are finding it’s cheaper to extend upwards rather than move house these days. Loft extensions are a brilliant way to create one or two new rooms, but invariably they leave you with some really awkward spaces that are hard to make use of.
In this house, the new stairs leaving up to the extension and the old chimney breast left an extremely deep space under the sloping eaves of the house. We’re talking more than a metre and a half. Too deep for a cupboard, right?
Wrong.
Heavy-duty drawer runners allow this pull-out wardrobe to have a huge capacity
Using heavy-duty industrial drawer runners, we were able to make two huge pull-out sections for this wardrobe. The first was a hanging unit - one and a half metres of hanging rail here.
The second is a shoe storage unit, although there’s so much space here I suspect it’ll be multi-functional.
So much room for storage here - shoes, bedding, small children - the world is your oyster
In the shallower, taller part of the wardrobe we’ve got loads of high-capacity drawers on soft-close runners. Above them, a triangular cupboard to store all your toblerones in.
I like big drawers and I cannot lie
We used a combination of Fenix and high grade birch plywood for the faces. It’s a lovely contrast, and both are gorgeously tactile surfaces.
Overall, this was a wardrobe that we were incredibly proud of, fitting into a difficult space and providing intelligent storage that makes use of every cubic centimetre of space. It’s beautiful too, the colour popping in the light that streams through the Velux windows.