If you are planning to add built-in wardrobe to your interior and you want to make some rough idea of wardrobe prices you can often hear useless answers as: “Usual wardrobe can cost from about 5 to 20 thousand Sk, depending on the materials used and the wardrobe interior fittings. ” Will you be satisfied with such answer? Probably not but if the manufacturer of built-in wardrobes doesn’t have at least basic specifications for you, calculating the exact price is not easy respectively it’s almost impossible (even if the built-in wardrobe are relatively simple piece of furniture). So which furniture materials are lowering and increasing the price? Or which construction details and processes of the production make the wardribe cheaper or more expensive? And which wardrobe equipment is standard and which above standard?

The location of the built-in wardrobe in the interior

One of the important factors influencing the final price of cheap built-in wardrobe is design and construction, based on its location in your interior. Cheapest solution is the locating the wardrobe into niche in the wall (or on the entire length of the wall) because the fibreboard at the both sides of wardrobe are substituted with walls (more expensive wardrobes are equipped with a full fibreboard walls). In this case, the internal shelves and horizontal bars are mounted by a plastic supports of triangle shape directly on the wall. The built-in wardrobe at the same size may cost more if you want to place your wardrobe in the corner of the room and then the wardrobe will have only one wall replaced. The most expensive option is that the wardrobe is placed in room in so way that it can’t have any walls replaced (then it is called ” in area ” wardrobe).

Standard internal interior height is approximately 265 cm and therefore the built-in wardrobes which have same height do not usually have the upper floor. This will save the amount of material. However, in older interiors where the ceiling height is often up to almost 400 cm and the owner does not want to have so tall wardrobe , the upper floor must be created (higher consumption of material - higher price). If the owner wants so tall wardrobe, he must also expect greater prices and that the sides and sliding doors will be high-connected (because the fibreboards are produced at the maximum height of about 275 to 281 cm and and profiles for the production of sliding doors also have a maximum length). The price of built-in wardrobe can increase when we want to put it in the attic rooms.

Internal equipment of built-in wardrobes

You may have noticed that manufacturers of built-in wardrobes often declare stock prices for internal equipment made from some specific material (such as shelves, horizontal bars and vertical bars of white laminate fibreboard), which makes the prices lower (sometimes even several tens of percents). Why are the discounts offered only to the interior equipment and are not also offered to the sliding doors? White laminate fibreboard is a cheap material and internal components are essentially made from a simple rectangular parts, edged with the cheap laminated edge tape (ie, low materials prices and low production costs). Therefore, the value of internal equipment makes only a small part of the total wardrobe, sliding door are much more expensive and important for the manufacturer.

Between internal equipment there are not only the shelves and the bars, but there are also the drawers, slide-out baskets, hanger bars and many other special fittings. All these fittings increase added value of wardrobe. However, higher functionality means higher price. It is therefore important to think about the equipment, i.e. how many drawers you need in the wardrobe, whether ordinary fixed hanger bar is enough for you or you want more comfortable folding bar, whether you want special hanging fittings for trousers or the classic hanger rod, whether you want lighting in the wardrobe … The combinations are almost limitless so the time spent thinking about your wardrobe equipment will return back multiply.

Cheaper built-in wardrobe does not have a lower bottom or fibreboard back wall but in a luxury wardrobe I recommend these parts - the price does not increase so impressive and wardrobe look better. In luxury wardrobe I also recommend to do not replace the fibreboar sides even if the wardrobe is located between two walls. Some holes can be drilled for shelf support props so the shelves can be height-adjustable .

Materials

Interior fittings in more luxurios wardrobes do not have to be (or, in my view, should not be) made of precious materials (veneer oak, beech and Zebrano, makasar, wenge and sprayed construction MDF boards …). Cheaper laminated fibreboards are fine (price for different patterns of laminate fibreboards is either the same or only slightly different) - these wardrobes closed for most of the time and the money saved can be spent on better aluminum frame and on filling of sliding door or on the material, which is visible even when the doors are closed (visible sides respectively the side rails, the upper bar which has mounted the upper rail for the sliding doors on it). The only suitable material change in the internal equipment is replacing cheaper laminate edge tape with a higher quality ABS plastic edge.

Wardrobe sliding doors

The cheapest sliding doors are made of steel profiles, are filled with laminated fibreboard with thickness of 10 mm (unfortunately, not completely each pattern of laminated fibreboard is produced in the thickness of 18 mm for the production of the usual furniture and also in thickness of 10 mm for producing the fill of sliding doors – so it is a little bit more difficult to combine materials of built-in closets with the materials of the rest of the furniture in the interior) and are mounted in steel rails. More expensive aluminum profiles and rails can also be combined with a laminated fibreboard fill, the most luxury impression, however, raise a glass panels, plexi-glass, veneered and painted panels and other special materials (as a filling of the door can be used almost any large-scale material with a maximum thickness of 10 millimeters).

The focus, design, transport and assembling the wardrobe

The focusing and designing of built-in wardrobe is usually free of charge. Manufacturer may cleverly hide these costs between the other ones. But the assembly is often made by someone else then manufacturer. If the assembly price is not included in the bid, you’ll need to pay it particularly after the assembling of the wardrobe. This amount may be calculated by the percentage of the total price of wardrobe (8 to 15 percent) or by hourly wages multiplied by the number of installer. The price of transport is calculated by multiplying the distance from the manufacturer workshops to the final interior with the amount of approximately 15 Sk / km (prices per kilometer are certainly different, some manufacturer may „forgive“ you the price of transport)