Design tips for stylish wardrobe sliding doors

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If you’re planning a bedroom update in 2025, one of the key decisions to make about wardrobes. The right kind of wardrobes can serve as a stylish design centrepiece to your bedroom, as well as being functional of course. But if you get the wardrobes wrong, your bedroom will never look right.

And if you want to be on trend in 2025 in terms of bedroom wardrobes, you may want to consider a minimalist look. After all, why take up precious bedroom space with large bulky wardrobes if a sleeker design would do the job just as well, if not better?

An essential design tip for your new bedroom wardrobes is to consider wardrobes with sliding doors. They are a brilliant way of maximising your storage space whilst still leaving lots of room in your bedroom. And, even better, you can custom design your wardrobe sliding doors to ensure the perfect look for your bedroom.

In this article we share some of our favourite tips for the best wardrobe sliding doors.

Five design tips for the best wardrobe sliding doors

• Go large!

The beauty of having wardrobe sliding doors is that you can get them custom made to fit the exact dimensions of your bedroom. This enables you to use every inch of space, including awkward corners, sloping ceilings or other quirks of your room.

Not to mention the fact that you have no doors that open out and take up more space by doing so – or bump into whatever is in front of them. All you need to do is slide a door across and you have access to everything in your wardrobe.

Compare the custom-built wardrobe sliding doors in the image below with how much space would be wasted if you tried to place freestanding wardrobes against those walls. You can just imagine the huge difference in storage space available.

So, our first tip for the best wardrobe sliding doors is to go large!

• Glass and gloss

The wardrobe sliding doors pictured above are also incredibly stylish. The coloured glass adds depth and warmth to the room. And when you design your own wardrobe sliding doors, you can choose the specific colour that you want, to make your wardrobes a feature in your room.

The finished effect is contemporary and stylish, and will bring your bedroom to life.

Glassy and glossy finishes also help to reflect light around your bedroom, making it seem brighter and more welcoming. And if you don’t want a bright colour for your wardrobe sliding doors such as the Aubergine and Fuschia combination pictured above, you can opt for a more neutral option such as the Pearl White glass doors below.

• Make the most of mirrors

And of course another variant of glass doors is to have mirrored wardrobe sliding doors. Not only do full-length mirrors look amazing on wardrobe sliding doors, but they are also incredibly practical. No more having to jiggle around in front of a freestanding mirror, or take up precious wall space for a fitted mirror. Mirrored wardrobe sliding doors are the perfect solution. 

Another tremendous advantage of mirrored wardrobe sliding doors is that they make your bedroom look much bigger. This is particularly the case for a small bedroom. The more mirrors the better, as they create the optical illusion of the room being larger than it actually is. Not only that but, as we have already seen, sliding doors enable you to maximise the size of your wardrobe, and this will reduce the need for other furniture items in your room and prevent it from becoming cluttered.

All in all, making the most of mirrors is a definite extra advantage of wardrobe sliding doors.

• Back to nature

There is a growing trend for people wanting to embrace the Back to Nature vibe in their homes, including in the bedroom. Our article Bringing the Outside in this Summer outlines various ways that you can bring a touch of nature to your bedroom.

One of the ways to do this is to use natural colours and textures on your wardrobe doors. And the good news is that wardrobe sliding doors are available in a wide range of colours and finishes that can make this happen, depending on the effect you want to achieve. For example, darker woody tones can make a room feel traditionally warm and cosy, whereas lighter tones can create an airy outdoor feel.

If you want to break up the wood effect look, how about mixing and matching materials? For example, the wardrobe sliding doors below feature a Driftwood tone for the majority of the door, but interspersed with white glass for contrast.

• Embrace minimalist neutrals

For a timeless look to your bedroom, neutrals are a good choice for your wardrobe sliding doors. And neutrals are far from bland or boring. Not only can they blend in beautifully with pretty much any room style and colour, but they are eternally fresh and easy on the eye.

Neutral colours can also help to give your bedroom a stylish minimalist feel. Once any clutter is safely stowed away inside your wardrobes, your smooth, sleek, neutral doors will bring a sense of calm and order to your bedroom, and help you to feel organised and in control.

How to design your own wardrobe sliding doors

If the above ideas have inspired you to have new wardrobe sliding doors in your home, the best place to start is to have a look at DIY Homefit’s Sliding Wardrobe Door designer to plan the perfect design and fit for you. 

We offer an easy 3 step process which will enable you to create your own made-to-measure wardrobe sliding doors.

All you need to do is specify the size of your doors and the panel divisions you want, then choose from over fifty different glass, mirrored, patterned and board finishes and ten frame styles and finishes.

For further help, check out DIY Homefit’s How to Use our Wardrobe Sliding Doors Designer here.

We hope that this article has given you some ideas for different trends in wardrobe sliding doors. For more inspiration about the ideal option for your home, why not take a browse through our gallery of bedroom pictures to find the perfect bedroom wardrobes for you.

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