Main bedroom: three boxes of clothes, moved into one wall

Before

The main bedroom is 150 sq ft, holding a queen bed and an eight-year-old two-door wardrobe. Out-of-season clothes no longer fitted, so three plastic storage boxes had ended up stacked beside the bed — the first thing you saw walking in. The wallpaper was original and there was a large yellow water stain above the headboard.

What we proposed

The idea was to stop treating storage as a piece of furniture and start treating it as a wall: floor-to-ceiling units along the whole side wall, 600 mm deep, running right up to the ceiling so the full height is used.

• Left bay: out-of-season bedding, shelving adjustable
• Middle bay: split into long and short hanging, with 1.4 m clear height in the long section
• Right bay: drawers for underwear and accessories
• Light wood-grain fronts, floor to ceiling, handleless — visually it takes up less space
• The water stain above the bed was dealt with at the same time: substrate redone, then repainted

How it ran

The owners were at work during the build, so tools and materials were tidied into a corner of the balcony before we left each day, with nothing to disturb the evenings. The units took two days to fit; the timber was then left three days to settle before the wall was painted.

Result

All three boxes were emptied and the clothes sorted by season into separate bays. The feedback was that what pleased them most wasn’t how it looks, but that “finding clothes in the morning is quick now”. The same client later added a laundry cabinet on the balcony.