Hawthorn Dressing Room

The brief

The clients had a generous room and a large wardrobe that never quite worked — too much hanging, not enough for folded cotton, and a ceiling line broken by a cornice the joinery fought with. We started again from the clothes: full-height hanging on two walls, shallow drawers at waist height for folded garments, a tall bay for dresses, and a low run of shoe drawers under the window seat.

Doors run to the ceiling with a continuous reveal instead of a cornice, which meant setting out the plaster and the skirting around the joinery rather than the other way around. Inside, everything is built in Polytec 9mm wardrobe board, and Häfele Loox lighting is on a door sensor, so the room lights itself when you open it in the morning.