Generally speaking, fitted bedroom furniture are more expensive than regular bedroom furniture. Not only are they more expensive to buy, but they also require skilled professionals to help you install them, something which costs extra cash. So why would anyone choose to buy fitted bedroom furniture?
The main reason boils down to the better utilization of space. If you live in an old house with large and spacious rooms, you probably have better things to do with your money than to spend it on fitted wooden bedroom furniture. You could use the money you save on buying better quality bedroom furniture instead (e.g. something made from real wood like oak bedroom furniture or pine bedroom furniture).
Unlike regular bedroom furniture designs, fitted bedroom furniture tries to make the most efficient use of every cubic inch of space your bedroom offers. Wardrobes would stand from floor to ceiling, and try to stretch from wall to wall if at all possible. Beds would have drawers and small closets underneath. Some bed designs might even go so far as to incorporate small drawers into the headboard and closets on top of the bed where the canopy might have gone.
Who should buy fitted bedroom furniture? Frankly, those who would most appreciate this kind of bedroom furniture collection are younger people who live in modern urban homes or apartments. Most homes of newer designs are built from smaller specifications. Houses are built on smaller pieces of land, and they are built smaller with less spacious rooms and lower ceilings to save on material. The same goes for apartment blocks – more storeys and smaller rooms to fit in more apartments, lower ceilings, small cramped 2-in-1 washrooms with a shower and toilet but no bath – anything that the construction company can get away with to cut costs and make more profit for its shareholders.
Imagine trying to find space to store all your belongings if you lived in a studio apartment or a one-bedroom apartment. Unless you live a very spartan and minimalist lifestyle, this seems extremely difficult. This is where fitted bedroom furniture packages come to the rescue. You no longer have to keep the belongings you use the least packed away in miscellaneous boxes stacked one on top of the other. You no longer have to stack boxes on top of your wardrobes. Instead, the floor-to-ceiling built-in wardrobes provide you with extra space to organize your belongings. And when you use space saving hangers instead of regular hangers, you gain even more space to store all your clothes.
When discussing fitted bedroom furniture, the wardrobe is arguably the most important part of the equation. While your bed may remain the visual centrepiece of your bedroom decor, the real core of your bedroom has to be your fitted wardrobe. A fitted wardrobe goes to much further extremes than an organizer closet. When looking at the brochures from your local bedroom furniture outlet, you might have encountered these three terms: full carcase built-in wardrobe, frame construction built-in wardrobe and sliding door built-in wardrobe.
What are the differences and which type is better? Unfortunately, there is no simple answer. Having said that, there is one important constraint that can force you to pick one particular wardrobe design – the shape and size of your room.
If your bedroom is very cramped and you do not have enough space to swing open the hinged door of a regular wardrobe, you will need to choose a sliding door built-in wardrobe. Although they have the endemic problems common to all sliding doors, they do have two advantages to call their own: they are easier to install; and they are slightly cheaper than the alternatives.
If you have a regularly shaped bedroom with only squared-off corners and no obstructions, fitted bedroom furniture with carcase built-in wardrobes are probably a good choice. It could be said that they are the most commonly sold types of fitted wardrobe. They also have the further advantage that they can be dismantled and taken with you when you move.
If your bedroom has a sloped ceiling, is irregularly shaped or has an obstruction of some kind, your only choice may be a frame construction built-in wardrobe. Fitted bedroom furniture packages with this kind of wardrobe are probably the most costly type in the market. They are the most versatile in being able to handle nearly any conceivable bedroom shape. Unfortunately, they do not come with a backing panel so you need to prepare your bedroom wall before the installation. Overall, they are the most difficult type of built-in wardrobe to install.
Buying fitted bedroom furniture is often just one step removed from buying custom bedroom furniture. It is something which requires a lot of thought on your part. It is also something of an investment, because these types of furniture are difficult to take with you when you move. Not only that, but they can be costly to reassemble in your new home even if they fit.