When researching wardrobes for a bedroom, you'll need to consider whether you want to install sliding or swinging doors. Here are several reasons to adopt a sliding design.
Seamless Appearance
Sliding wardrobes can add a lot of storage space to a room while keeping visual clutter to a minimum. They typically consist of wide panels that slide along channels, creating a streamlined effect. Swinging doors, on the other hand, tend to be narrower so that the hinge mechanism can hold their weight. Thus, for the same closet space, you're likely to have more doors if they're hinged. Additionally, sliding doors don't have handles ruining their seamless aesthetic.
Door Options
Being wide and flat, the sliding panels in these types of wardrobes are a virtual canvas for you to decorate as you please. You can cover them in mirrors, which has the benefit of making small rooms look twice the size. Alternatively, you can install frosted glass or opaque doors with bold stripes. You could mix materials by setting a decorative horizontal waist-high band of timber against a white laminate.
Framing Alternatives
Don't forget about the framing materials that add to the decorative effect. The door frames can be silver metal, or painted aluminium in colours such as black, red, or yellow. To bring out the contrast against the panel material and colour, you could install panels with wider frames that draw attention to themselves. Your sliding doors could feature, for example, amber-coloured glass filled with ornamental patterns, framed with wide black-painted metal.
Conceals Storage
Wardrobes, particularly in bedrooms, need to be large enough to store all your clothes, and thus, they're typically massive pieces of furniture. Sliding doors blend the storage with the room so that it becomes almost invisible, as the door panels form a pseudo wall. This allows you to tuck away neatly, out of sight, a vast amount of storage space, including drawers, shelves, and areas for hanging clothes. The room will be organised and clean without separate dressers with drawers, a cabinet top area, and wardrobe.
Space Saving
Of course, a major benefit of sliding doors is that they don't need space to swing outwards. The wardrobe has its designated area and only needs that. Swinging door wardrobes are deceiving in that not only do they use the floor space they sit in, but they require empty space in the front. Thus, they, effectively take up about double the area, depending on the door width. Not only that, but swinging doors can give a room a messy feel and get in the way if you're in a hurry.
For more information on sliding wardrobes, reach out to a local furniture maker or supplier.
