Door styles
Six door families, from £1,140 per metre, including VAT and installation. Book a free design visit for a fixed quote made to your measurements, finishes and colours →
- Made in our Wembley workshop
- 10-year guarantee
- Fitted in 21 days
Fifteen wardrobe door styles across six material families, from plain shaker and raised panel to handleless slab and aluminium-framed glass, all made to measure in our London workshop in more than a hundred painted colours and woodgrain finishes.
The six families are 5G Vinyl, the five-piece MDF door, painted timber, painted MDF, the Edged range and aluminium-framed glass. Each family below explains how the door is built and what it costs, and each door card opens a finished London bedroom where you can see it in a room. Every door can be hung on hinged, loft and over-bed wardrobes, and most on sliding runs too.
If you would rather choose by mood, the classic, contemporary and statement collections group the doors by the rooms they suit. Every wardrobe starts with a free home design visit, where the designer brings door and colour samples; the showroom in Wembley has the door library on display.
- Made in our Wembley workshop
- 10-year guarantee
- Fitted in 21 days
Fitted Wardrobes Built Around Your Style
Every Metro wardrobe starts with a door. The doors below are the ones London homes choose most, drawn at true proportion and grouped by the family they are built in, so you can compare frame widths, panel details and finishes before your designer brings the full-size samples to your home.
Start with the material
The style decides how a door looks; the family decides how it is made, how it wears and what it costs. Every door below belongs to one of these six, and each family page shows every design we make in it.
The 5G Vinyl
MDF core in a wrapped vinyl skin, 18mm. The only family that will take an arch, a flute or a mock in-frame profile — so most shapes here come from it.
The 5-Piece
A true five-part shaker — two stiles, two rails and a centre panel — at 22mm, wrapped in an embossed grain vinyl so it reads as timber at arm’s length.
The Edged
A flat door only, 18mm on an E1-grade core with a 1mm bonded edge. The guide singles this family out for scratch resistance, and it is the one that comes in true high gloss.
The MDF Painted
Sprayed rather than wrapped, 22mm, so the colour is the surface itself. Thirty-three standard colours, and it can be supplied primed for a colour that is on no chart.
The Timber Painted & Solid Oak
The only family with real wood in it — a solid ash frame around a veneered centre panel, 21mm. The panel is board on purpose: solid timber would move and split the paint.
The Aluminium Framed
A slim aluminium frame carrying toughened reeded glass, 20.5mm. Different hardware from every other door here, and the only one where the inside of the wardrobe joins the room.
The doors we fit most often
Ranked by what London homes actually ordered this year. Click a door to see it built into a room; doors without a room yet can be seen full size at your free design visit.
Melrose
Plain shaker on 60mm stiles. Our most-ordered door by a wide margin.
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Woking
A plain shaker frame with a flat recessed panel and no bead. Second only to Melrose.
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Olivia
Fine vertical grooves routed into a flat face. Texture without leaving the flat-door family.
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Allerford
Lined shaker on generous 80mm stiles, with a fine bead run inside the rails.
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Lincoln
Raised panel on 75mm stiles, the centre set proud of the frame with a moulded edge.
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Chelsea
Mock in-frame on 63mm stiles — the in-frame look on the slimmest frame we offer.
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Taunton
Plain shaker on 90mm stiles. A wide, traditional frame with a deep reveal.
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Mila
A grooved face with no frame at all, offered in matt and super-matt.
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Calcutta
Raised panel on 64mm stiles. The most decorative door in the library.
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Norwich
Lined shaker on 50mm stiles — a narrower frame that still carries the bead.
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Alaska
Handleless. The door edge is shaped into a J-pull you hook your fingers behind.
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Rathlin
Mock in-frame on 95mm stiles, the widest frame in this style.
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Cutler
A flat slab door, and one of the few offered in matt, super-matt and gloss.
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Rana
Handleless, with a full-height finger groove set to whatever width the run needs.
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Salisbury
Mock in-frame on 90mm stiles. Reads as traditional in-frame joinery.
Ask your designer for a sampleMost doors come in matt or super-matt and a few in gloss, in 33 standard colours with any painted colour to order. Prices include VAT and fitting, every door carries our 10-year guarantee, and your designer brings full-size samples to your home, free.
Find Your Perfect Wardrobe Door Style
From timeless Shaker profiles to contemporary handleless designs, discover a fitted wardrobe made around your home, your storage needs and your personal style. Book a free home design visit with Metro Home Interiors and discuss your ideas with our design team.
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Common Questions About Fitted Wardrobe Door Styles
Choosing a wardrobe door style is an important part of creating fitted furniture that works with your home. Here are answers to some of the questions our customers commonly ask.
Fifteen are shown here — the ones that come up again and again in London homes, drawn to the same scale so you can compare them properly. The full range we can order from runs to a great many more, including variations on the frame width and the arch profile of the doors above. If you have seen something elsewhere that is not on this page, tell your designer and they will bring it to the home visit.
It is what the door is built from, and it decides how the door wears rather than how it looks. 5G Vinyl is a wrapped MDF core and takes almost any shape, which is why the arches and flutes come from it. 5-Piece is a true five-part shaker frame. Edged is a flat door on a hard core with a bonded edge, and the one that comes in high gloss. MDF Painted is sprayed rather than wrapped, so the colour is the surface. Timber Painted has a solid ash frame. Aluminium Framed holds toughened glass.
A flat door runs to 2400mm and a curved door to 2250mm. Most London ceilings are comfortably inside that, so a single door can usually run floor to ceiling. Where a ceiling is higher — a Victorian first floor or a converted warehouse — the run is designed with a second tier of doors above, which also gives you somewhere sensible to keep the things you reach for twice a year.
No, and this is the one that catches people out. There are three finishes — matt, super-matt and gloss — but a given door style may be offered in only one or two of them. It is worth naming your finish early, because it can rule a door in or out before you have grown attached to it. Your designer will confirm what is available for the door you like at the first visit.
The stiles are the two vertical members of a door frame, and their width is the single biggest thing separating one shaker door from another. Across the library they run from 50mm to 95mm. Narrow stiles let the centre panel dominate and read modern; wide stiles read traditional and are what carries a moulding. A run designed to sit inside a surrounding frame needs the full 60mm, so that choice is made early.
Yes, and we would rather you did. Your designer brings full-size samples to your home, not swatches, so you can stand a door against your own wall and see it in your own light. A colour that looks warm in a showroom can turn grey under a north-facing window, and the only reliable way to find that out is in the room the wardrobe is going in.
Yes. It is common to run one door through the bedrooms and something quieter in a study or a landing cupboard, or to use a glazed door on a dressing area and a solid one either side of it. What matters is that the handles and the finish carry through, because that is what the eye reads as consistency rather than the shape of the door itself.