A complete guide to wardrobe selection: custom wardrobes or ready-made wardrobes?

2025-10-20
 Introduction: Wardrobes are essential for home storage. When choosing a wardrobe, you need to be both aesthetically pleasing and practical, as well as stylish and individual. How do you choose a high-quality, practical, and affordable wardrobe? Is it better to choose a custom wardrobe or a pre-made wardrobe?

Next, I will introduce you to the knowledge of purchasing wardrobes.

Which kind of wardrobe base material is better?

Solid wood - natural and luxurious, leading high-end consumers

Features: natural color, less glue, long life, expensive

Plate type - simple process, low price and more affordable

Features: Artificial board, disassembly and assembly of panels, no shape

Lamination - fashionable and personalized, close to the mid-end consumer level

Features: Various shapes, both retro and fashionable

Selection and skills of wardrobe panels and accessories

Wardrobe material selection: Choose environmentally friendly boards that meet national environmental protection standards, Ping An Tree boards, and the top ten Chinese board brands, which are your most reliable choice.

Wardrobe veneer: It is better to choose solid wood veneer for board veneer

Wardrobe side panels: Choose side panels with load-bearing capacity to ensure that the wardrobe does not deform vertically.

Wardrobe edge sealing: edge sealing all around, whether the corners are smooth

Wardrobe back panel: The back panel should be more than 5mm to prevent deformation

Wardrobe hardware accessories selection


Pulley guide rails

The core technical part of the sliding door, check whether it is easy, smooth, flexible and silent to push and pull.


Hinge

Connect the cabinet door and cabinet body. You can remove the door together with the hinge clip to check the inside of the clip.


drawer

The unit price of a wardrobe drawer is between 160 and 220 yuan, and only 2 to 3 wardrobe drawers are needed.

Clothes rail

Clothes hangers with rubber strips can have a sound-absorbing effect, and reinforcement strips are added inside to increase the load-bearing capacity.

handle

All copper and all stainless steel are better, alloy and electroplating are worse, and plastic is eliminated. The screws are firm.

The legendary golden size of wardrobe

TIP: The size of the wardrobe and the proportion of each area should be customized according to the size of your home and the height, body shape and clothing style of your family members.

Overall wardrobe or finished wardrobe or carpentry wardrobe

Overall wardrobe

Also known as custom wardrobes or built-in wardrobes, they make full use of space, are tailor-made to match the style of the space, and require design, production and other links.


Finished wardrobe

The finished wardrobes are purchased and installed immediately, the space utilization is unreasonable, the internal structure is fixed, and the product is not personalized or humanized.


Carpentry wardrobe

The wardrobe products are handmade on site, the price is cheap, and the craftsmanship depends entirely on the experience and ability of the maker.

Conclusion

A wardrobe is an essential piece of furniture in a home bedroom, especially for women, who all dream of owning a wardrobe full of beautiful clothes.

The above is the knowledge about wardrobe selection introduced to you by Ping An Tree Board. I hope it will be helpful to you.