However, before the wardrobe came along, clothes were stored in chests or trunks. This also made for easier transport between places, as often those that could afford the luxury of fine clothes stored in chests, moved from one house to another.
It was not until palaces and castles of the Royalty and richer households started to attain more luxuries that clothes rooms started to be included. Initially a wardrobe referred to an entirely separate room, where clothes were hung. But these rooms often included shelving and cupboards to store accessories, shoes and other garments and slowly the more modern wardrobe design evolved from these rooms, with space to hang clothes and drawers and shelving areas for putting other items on.
In the nineteenth century wardrobes began to take the more modern form we recognise today, with a hanging rail on either side of a shelving unit. Slowly doors were added to enclose the whole section and often the middle panel was fitted with a mirror. Originally the carpenter would consider the wardrobe big enough when 8 small men could stand inside it.
Soon wardrobes were no longer a luxury item only used by the wealthy. Wardrobes were being constructed of wood, from expensive oaks and mahoganies to cheaper pine options. In more recent times furniture started to be made from MDF and plastics.
Nowadays wardrobes can be bought as a flat pack for home assembly or as more bespoke solid wood designs. They come in all sorts of designs, shapes and sizes and range in price from very cheap budget options to specially designed expensive furniture.
For more details on wardrobe design and bespoke fitted wardrobes visit Barbara Genda Interior design and discuss your furniture needs.
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