How sliding doors can transform your bedroom

Release more bedroom space with sliding wardrobe doors from DIY Homefit

Spring is on its way, and perhaps the changing of the season makes you realise that it’s also time to make a few changes to your home. But the one thing that you may feel you cannot change is the amount of space available in your home. You’d love your home to feel more open, fresh and airy : but that just seems like an impossible ask.

However, it is possible to do this in a bedroom. Particularly if your bedroom is short of space, and you currently have a wardrobe with hinged doors, you can release more bedroom space by installing sliding wardrobe doors instead.

Four benefits of sliding wardrobe doors

We are going to look at the following four ways in which sliding wardrobe doors can transform your bedroom.

• Sliding wardrobe doors release more space in your bedroom
• Mirrored sliding wardrobe doors reflect more light around your bedroom
• Sliding wardrobe doors can give you more flexibility inside your wardrobe
• Sliding wardrobe doors bring style to your bedroom

Sliding wardrobe doors release more space in your bedroom

Sliding wardrobe doors need less space than hinged wardrobe doors to open. The image below shows how sliding wardrobe doors can transform a small bedroom which could otherwise look cramped and cluttered with hinged wardrobe doors.

Mirrored sliding wardrobe doors reflect more light around your bedroom

Sliding wardrobe doors can also make a huge difference to your bedroom in terms of reflecting light around the room and making it look much brighter. As you can see from the image above, if you decide to have mirrored doors, these will reflect light around the room and make it look much more spacious than it really is.

But even if you don’t want mirrored doors, any kind of glass or reflective sliding wardrobe doors will have a similar effect. You can see in the image below how these aubergine & fuchsia glass doors not only look stunning but also bounce light around the room.

Sliding wardrobe doors can give you more flexibility inside your wardrobe

We’ve all experienced having to fight our way through a wardrobe to get to the items in the furthest corner! Sliding wardrobe doors can help to overcome that because you can slide them across to the exact section you need to fully visible. There is also no outward opening door to navigate round, particularly when you are moving things in and out of the wardrobe. 

The additional advantage of being able to see and reach the inside of your wardrobe more easily is that you can then configure it any way you want to. So for example, you could have part of it for full length hanging, and another with shelves or drawers, additional storage options – as pictured below – or even a built-in dressing table.

Sliding wardrobe doors bring style to your bedroom

Sliding wardrobe doors can give your bedroom a very streamlined, contemporary look. As well as cutting down the amount of space your furniture needs to take up, the sleek, smooth finish of the sliding doors is very minimalist and looks good.

Sliding wardrobe doors can be designed in many different colours and finishes, which enables you to blend them seamlessly with the decor of the rest of the room. 

Sliding wardrobe doors will also look very stylish in your bedroom, and could be a valuable asset if you decide to sell your home in future.

Where can you get sliding wardrobe doors?

We have featured various examples of sliding wardrobe doors in this article and you may be wondering where you can get them from. The good news is that DIY Homefit supplies a fabulous range of sliding wardrobe doors. And, even better, you can design them yourself!

Not only does DIY Homefit give you an extensive choice of frame and panel designs, colours and finishes, but you can also design your own doors using our 3-step sliding door designer.

All you need to do is give us the size of your doors, the panel divisions you would like, and then specify the materials you want to use for your doors. You can choose from 10 frame styles and finishes, and over 50 different panel finishes : glass, mirrored, patterned and board – plus special finishes including glitters and 3D foils. 

So why not make a start by taking a browse through our gallery of bedroom pictures to get an idea of which wardrobe doors would work best in your bedroom, then get things moving to transform your bedroom in 2023.

And for other tips on how to improve your home in 2023, check back here with us soon at DIY Homefit.