WAY
Once the preserve of the one per cent, the
walk-in wardrobe is now a middle-class
must-have (blame Carrie Bradshaw). Who needs
that box room anyway, asks Olivia Lidbury
So you’ve got yourself a pantry and categorised it with
delicatessen-level precision and you are now seeking
another part of your life to compartmentalise ... What
about a walk-in wardrobe? According to the bespoke
furniture company Neville Johnson, interest in modern
dressing rooms increased 25 per cent in January
compared with January 2021, something believed to
have been helped by scenes featuring the diminutive
New Yorker Carrie Bradshaw’s not-so-petite closet in
the recent Sex and the City reboot, And Just Like That.
Of course Carrie’s dressing room is more than an
incubator for her Manolos — and similarly, in the
moneyed world of the interior designer Laura
Hammett’s clients, a walk-in wardrobe is viewed as
something far beyond a practical solution to housing
clothes. “It’s a special space that’s just theirs,” she says.
“If room allows, we add seating, back-lit display cases
and personal touches.” These touches vary from bridalLeft A set-up by the London-based maker Neatsmith,
featuring its Castille Luna hinged doors and an island.
Above A petite space in a west London home
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