Latest trends in bedroom door and layout designs

Bedroom design is having a moment. After a decade of "white wardrobes from a flat-pack", the brief has shifted. Clients want the bedroom designed like the kitchen. Here is what we are drawing most.

The cleanest move in modern bedrooms — handleless slab fronts in painted MDF, with a J-pull or shadow-gap detail. Reads as architecture, not furniture. We pair it with floor-to-ceiling height to maximise the calm. Best in larger principal bedrooms.

The traditional move — five-piece in-frame shaker fronts, hand-painted. We hang ours in Farrow & Ball or Little Greene colours: French Gray, Inchyra Blue, Mizzle. Best in period homes where the wardrobes need to read as built-in furniture.

The detail we are installing most this year. A reeded or fluted glass panel on a tall wardrobe door, lit from inside, used as a feature. Best as a single accent door in a run of solid fronts.

Full-height cabinetry along one wall, bed centred on the opposite wall. The simplest layout and the one we draw most. It works in rooms from 3m wide upward.

A walk-in dressing area behind the bed wall, accessed from either side. Best in larger bedrooms where the principal en suite already lives on the side wall. The walk-in then becomes the return through to the bathroom.

Bed in the middle, full-height joinery on both sides — wardrobe one side, hanging space the other, bedsides built in below. The room reads as a designed suite, not three separate pieces.

If a bedroom design is on the brief for the year, book a design visit. We will measure the room, recommend the door style for the architecture, and the layout for the daylight.