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Dealing with tight spaces using fitted furniture

May 16, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Karen

Most homeowners know what it is like to have to deal with areas that are particularly tight and narrow but that nevertheless need to be given practical uses. For example, the box room in a house is very often asked to perform the function of a child’s bedroom or a home office. It can be a struggle to furnish such spaces so that you can genuinely make the most of it.

The trick is to avoid using free standing items of furniture that fail to make use of the space available in the most efficient way. The efficient use of space is hugely important in small rooms and in tight spaces and free standing items of furniture often involve the wastage of spaces that might otherwise be perfectly usable either as storage or as free space making the room brighter and more comfortable.

Obviously you will need a proper alternative to free standing furniture and it comes in the shape of fitted bedroom furniture. Fitted bedroom furniture is incredibly efficient in terms of the treatment of available space even in very tight spaces and box rooms.

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Accuracy and professionalism are at the centre of a job furniture fitting job

May 9, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms, Office furniture — Written by Jermaine

It is good to know that you can rely on the expertise of furniture fitting specialists when you have decided that having furniture built in your bedroom represents a far better use of the available space than any of the alternative methods of furnishing. When you invite your furniture fitting experts to have a look at the room, it makes sense to have in your mind a few ideas about the finished product.

Your designers will take all of these matters into account when they look over the room and take all the necessary measurements they will need in order to manufacture and build the components. Accuracy is something that is obviously very important to furniture designers because it determines the quality of the job they do.

Of course, you can also expect professionalism. It is often the case that fitters can come and build fitted wardrobes and other fitted items of furniture on site during the course of a single day once the manufacturing stage has taken place and all the components are ready for them. Accuracy and professionalism are just two of the many positive attributes design and fitting teams possess.

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Fitted furniture and loft conversions make the ideal partnership

April 25, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms, Office furniture — Written by Sam

It is always worth thinking about using fitted furniture if you are hoping to turn your loft conversion into a usable space in your home. It is fairly common for people to convert loft spaces into bedrooms, although other prefer the idea of creating a nice and attractive office space up in the attic because the room is often bright, comfortable and perfect for work and study.

Fitted home office furniture and fitted bedroom furniture represent the ideal solutions when it comes to kitting out your loft conversion whichever route you go down; the bedroom route or the office route. The great thing about fitted furniture with relation to loft conversions is the way it is built around the shape of the room in order to maximise storage potential and aesthetic effect.

From a practical perspective, fitted furniture of this kind is also an asset because it prevents you from having to deal with tricky installation procedures when it comes to negotiating stairways and corners in order to get items of furniture into the room. If the furniture goes up piece by piece and is put together in situ this problem simply melts away.

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Using fitted wardrobes to deal with troublesome chimney breasts

April 18, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Karen

A fitted wardrobe is a fantastic way of getting round the troublesome chimney breast in your bedroom. A chimney breast can sometimes make furnishing a bedroom difficult because the recesses on either side are not wide enough to accommodate useful bits of furniture and placing a wardrobe in front of the chimney breast itself takes up too much floor space.

A great way of sorting this problem out is to have a purpose built wardrobe installed to your specifications. You might want to install two wardrobes on either side of the chimney breast built into the recesses so that the fit perfectly into the space. Otherwise, you might want to render the chimney breast invisible altogether by having a large fitted wardrobe installed across the entire end wall.

This approach would give you a huge amount of storage space – so much so that you may not need any further practical elements of storage in the room. Moreover, all those issues you seemed to be facing because of your chimney breast will have been resolved by making it part of the interior of the wardrobe itself.

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Make a spare room fit for a lodger (Part 2)

April 10, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Jermaine

The previous article began looking at how you can prepare a room so that it is attractive to people interested in renting it. A lodger is a real asset in terms of your finances and fitted bedroom furniture is excellent when it comes to making any spare room feel like a more accommodating place. Fitted bedroom furniture primarily helps create more space so potential tenants feel more comfortable.

This is such an important feature because it determines whether you will get a good price for your spare room. Then there is the fact that fitted bedroom furniture is also very practical. A practical spare room is a necessity when you are hoping to rent it out because lodgers need to have room for all their own things.

Fitted wardrobes in particular help to keep the room appealing because they centre all the storage in one ample space and they stop your room from taking on a makeshift appearance that comes from having lots of mismatching pieces of furniture dotted about the room generally making the place feel more cramped and less attractive to people hoping to move in.

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Make a spare room fit for a lodger (Part 1)

April 4, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Jermaine

If you have an extra room in your house that you want to rent out to a lodger then you really have to make it an attractive place to be. This is actually a really positive step because it ensures a little bit of extra income simply from the extra room you have in the house. If you like living with someone else then you ought to enjoy having a lodger about the house.

How you arrange and decorate the room will obviously determine how much interest you get in it. There are certain things that are very important. For instance, you have to get a lock fitted on the door and so on. However, other matters are about how functional and how appealing the room is.

It makes sense to rent out a room that is nice and spacious and that boasts plenty of storage because lodgers are likely to have a lot of belongings that they will need to find a home for. A good way of making sure your spare room is fit for a lodger is to have fitted bedroom furniture installed.

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Fitted furniture promotes greater convenience in the bedroom

March 31, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Sam

When you go to bed at the end of the day, you don’t want to be faced with a cramped room that is incredibly difficult to keep tidy. You want to be able to go to bed knowing that everything is in order so that when you wake up in the morning your preparations for the day ahead are as convenient as possible.

Rooms that don’t have the benefit of loads of floor space find themselves untidy fairly quickly unless you are on the ball with your housework. However, it is possible to give yourself a bit of a break and to promote greater convenience in your everyday life by having fitted bedroom furniture installed in your bedroom instead of using readymade furniture.

This is handy because it manages space really well and it ensures that you have every chance of keeping even a small room tidier for longer. This convenient approach to furnishing your bedroom has positive effect on your daily affairs because it takes some of the general sense of chore out of going to bed each evening and getting up each morning.

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Speak to fitting experts about sliding wardrobes

March 30, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Karen

If you want to have fitted wardrobes installed but you are worried about what your options are in terms of saving space then it is important to speak to the professionals. The fact is that furniture fitting specialists will be able to offer plenty of advice when it comes to arranging your room in the right way so that you get a good balance between storage space and available floor space that makes your room more comfortable.

One of the options that furniture fitting experts are likely to suggest if you really need to save space is sliding wardrobes. This is because sliding wardrobes do not involve outwardly opening doors. This feature makes them very neat and orderly and they do a great job of preserving space in the room as well as providing the necessary internal storage space.

Mention sliding wardrobes to your fitted bedroom furniture team when you invite them round to look over the space and carry out a few preliminary measurements and designs. They may be able to show you a portfolio of previous work so that you can get a better idea of what the finished product might look like.

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Having front frame wardrobes built by professionals

March 29, 2012
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Jermaine

Front frame wardrobes represent a fantastic option if you are looking to have bespoke wardrobes built into a bedroom at home. Bedroom furniture fitters are experienced in delivering a range of different options and although they are capable of building superb full carcass wardrobes, they may also offer the option of a front frame wardrobe. These wardrobes differ in the amount of material they use.

Front frame wardrobes are good at using the existing space in your room because they actually use some of that space as a means of providing storage. Instead of building a base, a back, a ceiling and a pair of sides for your fitted wardrobes, your designers will use the floor, ceiling and walls of your room instead if they are building front frame wardrobes. Then all they need to build is the interior of the wardrobe and the front frame itself.

Obviously you want the inside of your wardrobe to be clean and tidy so that you can store things neatly and safely away. This is why the walls, ceiling and floor may be lined in preparation when a front frame wardrobe is built.

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Using office furniture to make wasted spaces useful

March 22, 2012
Posted in Office furniture — Written by Sam

There is absolutely no reason why you should be able to have a bit of practical storage in your house for things that some would keep in a home office. We do not all have a room to dedicate to an entire home office with a desk and all the trimmings, but we might have some spare space such as the area under the stairs or a spot on the landing where office furniture could find a home.

The key is to make sure that the office furniture fits properly and the best way to achieve this condition is to have it built for the space. Fitted home office furniture fits seamlessly in place and this means that it does not encroach beyond the area you want it to occupy. Moreover, it makes wasted space perfectly useful.

The type of fitted home office furniture you might be looking at installing on the landing or in the space under the stairs might include things like shelving, drawer space, cupboard space and so on. This kind of storage is perfect for electrical equipment, paperwork, stationery, tools, accessories for hobbies and maintenance jobs, books, consumables and so on.

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