Featured Project | 06/10/2015:

ROOMS TRANSFORMED – YESTERDAY’S TRENDS FADE, WELCOME TODAY TO ADVANCE FOR TOMORROW

‘Everything is just as we wanted it to be, we are delighted, our new fitted furniture has introduced a new attractive look to our home – gone are the dated old ‘seventies’ wardrobe doors, and to add to it all we are very pleased that we decided to have the vanity unit installed into that awkward corner of the bathroom at the same time. Everything is so much tidier, the transformation is wonderful. Komandor has done us proud!’

This is just the kind of comment we at Komandor in Kirkcaldy consistently strive to achieve. Yes, indeed there are challenges’ to be met, however designing and fitting our customers’ dreams, is why we do it - we want to exceed our customer expectations. It’s fun and we are committed to continually developing the quality of our service always to the benefit of our customers.

Recently a customer invited us to their home to advise them on the design and installation of a new sliding door wardrobe in a space they had available in a spare room and to convert two aging cupboards divided by a partition wall into one large built-in wardrobe with a new sliding door system…

One of the cupboards had originally housed a hot-water storage tank that had subsequently been removed and the space utilised as a store. While we surveyed the rooms and the space available, the customer asked if we could come up with a design for a small space in the bathroom that would improve the use by replacing the existing free-standing vanity unit and wall cabinet.

Armed with the measurements and some notes from initial discussions with the customer, our designer set off to do some head scratching and deliberating with the task to produce designs that would create the fitted wardrobe and sliding door storage to meet with expectations.

Using our computer aided design software we quickly input the room dimensions and the design develops from the ideas that emerged during the discussion:

Designer’s initial questions? –

• What is your use for this room?
• Where in the room will we position the wardrobe? Let’s look at the options, are there any controlling features? - Electrical sockets, switches, radiators etc. Does the bed position, window, door dictate?
• Do we need to move or remove any fixtures from the preferred position?
• How about the twin cupboard conversions - remove the dividing partition wall; raise the height of the doorway to allow a clearer access to the higher area and fit higher sliding doors over the full width of both cupboards?
• What type of storage do you need? – hanging, long, short, do you want drawers, shelves, pull-out shelves, baskets, shoe racks, trouser or belt hanger.
• Perhaps a pull-down hanger positioned in a higher area will allow lower more accessible shelving or drawers below to make best use of the space.
• How much hanging space is required? Then we can decide on how we set out the remaining space to best suit the type of storage required in each wardrobe.
• Often there is much discussion between the couple in respect of what facilities are required by each of them in their varying assessments of how much space they both need - inevitably the woman wins on space and requires a greater capacity for her collection of dresses and shoes!
• What about door types? Sliding, folding, pivot. Type of frame design. Colours? Self-coloured, perhaps a different coloured band mid-height or below. Laminate wood grain, self-coloured, coloured glass, woven, bamboo, leather - or a mix????
• How about the colour of the carcass and shelving? - many wood grain and self-colours to choose from. Consider room colours, intended decoration.
• Is internal LED lighting required?
  

With so many options, there is plenty of opportunity to match budgets.

The bathroom unit required fitting into a small recess in a corner behind the entrance door, and a number of similar questions and answers moulded the layout of the unit and its appearance.......... cupboard, shelves, drawers? What items are to be stored; any mirrors, etc., etc.

The initial computer design concepts produced provoked a further meeting in the design studio with the customer to fine-tune colours, internal fittings and of course, the all-important budget. The advantage of the computer images helps the customer visualise the final design and how it would look and fit into their room décor and layout. Often this additional discussion with the designer brings new ideas and beneficial advice with final adjustments that define the ultimate solution that sets the scene for the most desired result.

Our customers in this case decided on light laminate wood effect colours to lift and lighten the rooms. Hanging space was at a premium with shelving, some pull-out shelves, drawers, shoe shelves.

In the bathroom, a white wood grained finish was chosen to compliment the white suite – (Hacienda White). Twin mirrored doors hid some practical shelving while below more storage shelves and drawers to hold towels and flannels. A space filled now with useful space to match the intended use.


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