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Open Wardrobes
The frame and the rail, no doors
A door is about a third of the cost of a wardrobe, and inside a walk-in or a dedicated dressing corner it is a third you do not need. Open rail systems go up in twenty minutes, extend a bay at a time, and are the least invasive thing you can put in a rented room.
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Quick answer: is an open wardrobe a good idea?
It depends almost entirely on where it goes. Inside a walk-in, a dressing room or a closed alcove, an open rail is excellent: it costs a third less than the same frame with doors, it is faster to assemble, it extends a bay at a time, and the room itself is already doing the door's job. Standing in an ordinary bedroom it has one real drawback — clothes on an open rail collect dust, noticeably so in a ground-floor or road-facing flat with the windows open, and everything you own is permanently on display whether or not it is tidy. If the rail will live in the open, buy doors; if it will live inside something, do not pay for them.
About open wardrobes
Can I extend it later?
Yes — that is what it is designed for. Buy another bay and a connector and it bolts onto the existing run on the same uprights. The finishes are held as stock rather than run in batches, so a bay bought two years from now will match the one you have. This is the only product in the range that extends this way; the panelled wardrobes are fixed at the width you order.
Does it need to go against a wall?
It is designed to, and wall-fixing is what we recommend, but it will stand freestanding on the supplied feet. Used as a room divider in an open-plan space it wants to be loaded evenly and it should not be used unfixed anywhere a child might pull on it.