From larder to walk-in-robe...

This little before and after may be modest, but it does deserve points for practicality. When we first moved onto Chambers, the main bedroom (then an office) had an en-suite but no clothes storage. Conveniently, a built-in larder came off the laundry and abutted the bedroom wall, making for an easy conversion into a walk-in-robe.

Before

After gutting the space, we flipped the door from the north to the south wall (so that it now opened into the bedroom) and installed a simple flat-pack fit-out.

After

The hardest part of the process was finding reasonably priced wicker baskets for the top shelf (if you're looking, they're on sale now at Howard's Storage). And after eighteen months of getting dressed in the guest bedroom every morning, a walk-in-robe suddenly feels like a lovely piece of luxury...