Recommendations for Custom Wardrobes Design and Installation in Valais

Accomodation, House and Garden
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It's that time when I turn to the learned members of English Forum for advice and recommendations

I have acquired an old apartment in the Valais/Wallis (Heremence) that I am busy refurbishing, and I would like to have some custom wardrobes designed, built, and installed in certain spaces.

To match the mountain "vibes", would prefer the visible exteriors to be made from some flavour of rustic solid wood. But I'm not looking for anything fancy or complicated.

Any recommendations for a competent and fair service provider in the region?

Also, from a pricing perspective, is it worth looking further afield eg. getting the work done by a French/German/Italian/Polish(?!) company for same quality at significant lesser cost? If so, any recommendations on this front?

As always, appreciate any and all input.

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Swiss carpenters will charge from about CHF 100.00 per hour. In other words, it's going to cost an arm and a leg.

Maybe try something like this

https://www.deinschrank.de/suche/ein...yAAEgJ5uvD_BwE

and get a local carpenter to make and fit mountain vibe doors?

Maybe get a local firm to quote (ask if they charge for quoting)

https://pralongmoix.ch/activites.html

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We're working with dein Schrank right now. Ours doors are rather modern, but they may have some more traditional finishes.

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I'd love to hear about your experiences with deinschrank and maybe even see the results if you're up for that.

I was thinking OP could replace the modern doors with traditional handmade ones. Maybe deinschrank would just let him/her order the carcasses without doors.

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Apf, Pfister, Fust etc. can give you estimates on built in custom wardrobes/closets

I've used the 1st two with good experience and not prohibitively priced IMHO

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Sure...we've been talking to their designer, who is there every day. We have a really weird installation behind a major 6x6 oak beam just above head height running the length of the room's dormer ceiling. Total around 4.6 metres. The end portion of 1 metre will be just a box with a door. It will lead to the storage in the attic. All doors will be mirrored; light inside each carcass; a mixture of shelves/drawers/hanging rods. I'll take some pix; probably won't be until December. So far, uninstalled, it looks around 5000 Euro.

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That price sounds good given the circumstances and the size. Hope you'll be happy with the result.

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P.S.: Subscribe to their newsletter on the deinschrank website, and they'll offer you a 20% discount. There are lots of nice pix of various offerings...

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Depending on the space/shape/dimensions will dictate whether you need custom made or something modified from standard, with the latter option being cheaper in price. Micasa Modul is a good place to start using their online tools. I have used it a few times with clients but the trick is to pick it up from the store and cancel only the sliding door fronts and replace it with something custom made to your style and dimensions. Bearing in mind there is a shortage of materials Europe wide and there has been huge increases in prices, aim for best value rather than a number.

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Update on dein Schrank, as promised. We ordered a year ago; they have just told us delivery will be in late August. To be fair, some of that delay was down to our slow response to questions, but still...

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Another update on the Deinschrank saga, almost a year on. Finally they notified us that an installer would be here in August and booked the 30th, 3-6pm. At 6:30, a DE truck driver appeared at the door, saying they'd sent him with a 40-ton 3-axle lorry that couldn't fit down our tiny lane. OH went to see it, parked at a local hotel. He offered to drive it down the lane himself, but liability...

Now they are trying to re-schedule but are also trying to renege on the installation specified in the contract. Asked us if we couldn't get our own schreiner...yeah, right...in an area where there's a giant building boom and absolutely every worker is taken! This could get very interesting.

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It will cost an arm and a leg regardless.

I always do Ikea, and then fit the wardrobe to the wall. Look online and you'll get an idea of how ikea can be hacked. Even if you want some nice wooden doors I would get the ikea frame and mount the doors on it. If you want the whole thing to be of solid wood, then it will cost you....

I do Ikea + maison du monde for the door handles + 2*2 wood and plasterboard to incase the wardrobe. It looks fitted and for extra bonus point, you sand the doors and the inside and apply paint, in which case no one will ever know it's ikea.

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This is not an IKEA project--it demands 6 meters of customised segments, each different and each with mirrored swinging doors, which fit tightly behind and under a giant supporting beam running the length of the closet. In addition, there is a support-beam footing that will require two of the segments to sit higher. Every measurement is different within each segment, and nothing is square in This Old House.

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This is exactly what we did. It was far cheaper to buy the IKEA wardrobes and pay a plasterer to install drywall around them so that they were 'integrated' than it was to have custom wardrobes built to fit the space. The end result looks great.

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No IKEA hack could have given us this. Meters and meters of glass worked around a giant beam and upright (with self-built boxes underneath to raise the carcass to the height of the beam). The pic shows only about 3/4 of the length. Deinschrank did a poor job on the hardware (one dead LED light and several knobs that were improperly machined). Apparently they are willing to make it right...we'll see. Trim still to be installed.

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You could have never obtained that effect with IKEA, I agree... I would have maybe tried to use standardized IKEA frames and accessories for the interior, but the doors would have been custom-built in any case, no way you could have adapted IKEA mirror doors to that (and yours are even nicer!).

Nice project, thanks for sharing the result!

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Here's a "before" glimpse of The Scariest Room in the House! Not shown are the spiders, the baby pram and the scuba flippers...this is after we filled a skip with some interesting stuff.

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A bog standard under the roof cupboard that looks absolutely average - you got to be kidding me...

PAX will have been perfect for this, although judging by the height might have even gone down market with PLATSA - for the doors you can either add mirrors or buy already pre-made mirror doors online. Re-use the IKEA hinges and voila... IKEA particule boards are ideal to cut to size - what do you think the people who built your closet did? They take rectangular panels and cut them to shape.

So no - I maintain custom cupboards are a waste of money. But then again, I do developments in London and have margins to watch for, if you got the cash to spend why bother. Just like why bother trying to source cheap hardwood floorboards when you can just pick some for 4x the price.

So to OP - IKEA is a perfect option if you are working with anyone who has a basic idea of carpentry.

Here is an under the roof one - first google hits: IKEA PAX under the roof https://www.pinterest.ch/pin/2322237297266458/

https://www.google.com/search?q=unde...-uy8BE1MaSljjM

A cupboard like bossbaby would have taken me about 2 days to put together with IKEA and buying some bog standard mirror doors at LeroyMerlin or any other hardware shop, although am almost sure even IKEA has some, but I find mirrored door naff and prefer to buy this so as not to have any handles (I do like handles in some projects, depending on the space I am working with! In this case with the money saved you can splurge on something really out there!):

https://www.fobi.fr/loqueteau-pousse...netique-p59849

Thanks for the laugh though bossbaby. Just finished putting together another "custom" wardrobe this week with IKEA, tried to upload on the forum, but the forum is too old school to let me upload something that's more than 40kb. I'll be putting that project on houzz later this year and will link to it.

OP Don't be a snob, buy IKEA and you'll thank me for it later. Unless, you actually have something really out of the ordinary, read: 5 meter high cupboards with 25 cm width and you need golden shelves... Or if you have the cash, don't bother and pay a carpenter to do everything from A to Z, but then you wouldn't be on the forum in the first place asking for tips I expect?