Sliding wardrobe for a hallway with a storage niche

A sliding wardrobe for the hallway of a small apartment: two floor-to-ceiling sliding doors in a light oak look close off a niche by the front door. The task was to close the niche right at the entrance without doors swinging into the passage, while fitting shoes and clothes inside and keeping the meters accessible. So behind the doors there is no carcass wardrobe, just a small storage room with shelves and a hanging rail.

A storage room behind sliding doors

We chose not to fill the niche with a carcass: that leaves more room inside. Behind the right-hand door, right by the entrance, stands a shallow shelving unit — three shelves at the top, clear height in the middle and two low shelves for shoes. Behind the left-hand door is a way through to the back: two tiers of shelves on the far wall and a chrome rail with a support down to the floor. The meter hatch and the fuse box stay inside and remain accessible. How to measure a niche and plan the interior is covered in our article on sliding wardrobes for a niche.

Doors and a black frame

The door panels are plain, with no divisions, in a light oak look with dark flecks. The narrow black profile of the sliding system outlines each door and the whole opening — the only decorative move here. There are no separate handles: you slide the door by its vertical profile. Sliding doors take up no room in the passage by the entrance, where a hinged door would get in the way. Next to the wardrobe stands a tall boxing in the same décor, so the wardrobe and the end of the kitchen read as one volume. A freestanding version with a different feel is our two-door sliding wardrobe in a dark wood-look frame.

It suits an apartment with a niche or a former storage cupboard in the hallway. If there is no niche, take a look at the compact hallway with a bench. Everything else is on the custom furniture for the home page.