Full Panel Sliding Wardrobe Doors, Made to Measure in London
One panel per door, from the top rail to the bottom rail, with nothing crossing it. The plainest sliding door there is, and the one that makes a room look biggest when the panel is mirror.
The Full Panel door, drawn
A Full Panel door is an aluminium frame around a single infill: 21mm top rail, 56mm bottom rail, two 30mm stiles and one panel of mirror, glass, woodgrain or painted board between them. On a 2400mm opening the door is 2340mm high and the panel 2263mm, so a full-height mirror reflects the whole room and everyone in it. Because there are no cross rails, the panel carries the look on its own: a mirror door reads as a window, a woodgrain door as a wall of timber, a tinted glass door as a dark, quiet plane.
Panels per door one · Panel height 2263mm on a 2400mm opening · Works in mirror, tinted or frosted glass, woodgrain, painted · Largest door 1500mm wide, 3200mm high, 160kg
Getting a Full Panel door right
Six things a designer checks before a single-panel door is drawn.
Mirror, glass or board
A full-height mirror makes the room look twice its size but shows everything in it. Frosted or tinted glass returns light without the reflection. Woodgrain or a painted board gives a wall, not a window.
Weight
A 2340 × 1030mm mirror door weighs about 60kg with its frame, so the doors run on steel rollers in a 80 × 40mm double top track and are held by a 60 × 8mm bottom guide. Soft-close is standard.
Frame finish
With nothing crossing the panel, the frame is the only line. Matt black is the current default; silver, white, champagne, cashmere, gun metal and black gloss are the others.
Mixing the doors
Full Panel doors are the easiest to mix across a run: mirror in the centre, woodgrain either side, as on the Bath. Each door is one material, so the rhythm is door by door.
Panel flatness
One large panel shows any bow. Mirror is bonded to a backing board and board panels are 18mm, so the face stays flat across its full height.
Handles
There are none. The stile of each door is the grip, and the doors meet with a 45mm overlap so the closed run reads as a single face.
The Full Panel door at three ceiling heights
How the Full Panel door divides at three common opening heights, drawn as three doors on a 3000mm opening. Panels are listed from the top of the door down.
| Opening | Door | Panels, top to bottom |
|---|---|---|
| 2200mm opening | 2140mm high × 1030mm wide, three doors on 3000mm | 2063mm mirror |
| 2400mm opening Most rooms | 2340mm high × 1030mm wide, three doors on 3000mm | 2263mm mirror |
| 2600mm opening | 2540mm high × 1030mm wide, three doors on 3000mm | 2463mm mirror |
Three Full Panel doors on one opening
Three doors on a 3000mm opening are each 1030mm wide: the opening plus two 45mm overlaps, divided by three. The outer doors run on the front track and the middle door on the back, 88mm behind, so any two doors can pass each other and every third of the wardrobe can be reached. With Full Panel doors the overlaps are the only lines across the run, which is why the stile finish matters so much here.
Door width (opening + 2 × 45mm) ÷ 3 = 1030mm on 3000mm · Tracks two, 88mm front to back · Overlap 45mm at each meeting · Two doors from 1200mm openings; four from about 3200mm
Planning a Full Panel wardrobe
Five decisions, in the order your designer makes them.
Full Panel, built
The Bath is three Full Panel doors on a 3600mm opening: walnut woodgrain either side and a full-height silver mirror in the centre, on a 200mm supporting frame finished to match the cashmere interior. The Brighton is the same layout as three mirror doors with a white frame, from £2,400, and the Durham is three doors of tinted black glass in a matt black frame.
Where a single panel is too plain, the same frame takes a cross rail. A Low 400 puts a 400mm woodgrain band at the base of a mirror door; an Equal splits the door into two panels; a Central 400 runs a mirror band through a painted door.
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Questions about the Full Panel layout.
A sliding door with one infill panel inside its aluminium frame and no cross rails. The panel can be mirror, frosted or tinted glass, woodgrain or a painted board, and it runs from the 21mm top rail to the 56mm bottom rail in one piece. It is the simplest of the twelve door layouts Metro offers and the one most people picture when they think of a sliding wardrobe.
Usually yes. A 2340mm mirror door reflects the whole room and roughly doubles the apparent depth of a narrow bedroom. If the reflection of the bed bothers you, a frosted glass Full Panel door returns the light without the image, or a mixed run puts mirror on the door that faces the window and woodgrain on the others.
Up to 1500mm wide and 3200mm high, at a maximum of 160kg per door. In practice most doors are 900 to 1200mm wide. Wider doors give larger uninterrupted mirrors; narrower doors are lighter to move and give more access positions along the run.
Yes, door by door. The Bath has woodgrain outer doors and a mirror centre door; the Harrogate has two mirror centre doors between two painted ones. Within a single Full Panel door there is only one panel, so mixing inside the door means moving to a banded layout such as Low 400 or Central 400.
From £2,754 for a three-door mirror wardrobe about 2700mm wide and 2400mm high (Level 4 of our price guide, £1,020 per metre), fitted, with a 10-year guarantee. Woodgrain and painted panels are similar in price; tinted and coloured glass cost more. Every wardrobe is made to measure in Wembley, so the exact figure is confirmed in writing after the free home design visit.
No. You grip the vertical stile of the door, which is why the frame finish is chosen with care. The doors overlap by 45mm so there is always an edge to hold, and the soft-close mechanism draws the door home for the last few centimetres.
One panel per door. One design visit.
Our senior designer measures the opening and brings mirror, glass and woodgrain samples to your home, free, so you can see the panel at full size before anything is made.