Low 400 Sliding Wardrobe Doors, Made to Measure in London
A 400mm panel at the base of each door, with one large panel above it. The kick-panel layout: a hard-wearing band where the door gets knocked, and a near full-height mirror or glass panel above.
The Low 400 door, drawn
The cross rail sits 400mm above the bottom rail, so the lower panel is a fixed 400mm band and the upper panel takes everything else: 1833mm on a 2400mm opening, 2033mm on 2600mm. The lower band is normally woodgrain or a painted board, because that is the part of the door that meets shoes, the vacuum cleaner and the bed frame. Above it a mirror or frosted glass panel runs from knee height to the ceiling, so the reflection still shows a full figure while the mirror stops short of the floor.
Panels per door two · Lower band 400mm, fixed · Upper panel 1833mm on a 2400mm opening · Common pairing mirror or frosted glass over woodgrain
Getting a Low 400 door right
Six things a designer checks before a kick-panel door is drawn.
The kick band
Four hundred millimetres covers the height at which doors get scuffed. Woodgrain or a painted 18mm board here wears far better than mirror and is easier to wipe.
Skirting and plinth
A 400mm band reads well when it clears the skirting and the mattress height. If the bed frame top is at 400mm too, the two lines will fight and the band moves to 300.
The mirror above
From 456mm to the ceiling, the upper panel still reflects head to toe from across the room. Nothing useful is lost by stopping the mirror at knee height.
One line across the run
The rail sits at the same height on every door, so across three doors the run reads as one long plinth with a tall panel above it.
Contrast or match
A dark woodgrain band under a mirror anchors the wardrobe. The same finish as the frame turns the band into a wider bottom rail and the door reads as one.
Room height
Low 400 works at every ceiling height because the band is fixed and only the upper panel grows. At 2700mm the upper panel is 2133mm and still one piece.
The Low 400 door at three ceiling heights
How the Low 400 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 | 1633mm mirror · 400mm woodgrain |
| 2400mm opening Most rooms | 2340mm high × 1030mm wide, three doors on 3000mm | 1833mm mirror · 400mm woodgrain |
| 2600mm opening | 2540mm high × 1030mm wide, three doors on 3000mm | 2033mm mirror · 400mm woodgrain |
Three Low 400 doors on one opening
Across a 3000mm opening the 400mm band runs as one line from wall to wall, at the same height on all three 1030mm doors. Above it the three upper panels overlap by 45mm at each meeting, the middle door on the back track 88mm behind the outer two. The effect is a wardrobe that appears to stand on a timber plinth, with a run of mirror or glass above it that is broken only by the two stiles where the doors meet.
Door width 1030mm, three on 3000mm · Bands across the run two, the lower one 400mm · Rail height 456mm from the floor of the door · Tracks two, 45mm overlaps
Planning a Low 400 wardrobe
Five decisions, in the order your designer makes them.
Banded doors, built
The York is a horizontally banded sliding wardrobe: walnut woodgrain bands at the top and the bottom of each door, frosted glass between, black rails machined to one drawing so the lines run across both doors. It is 3000mm wide, 2400mm high and from £4,995 fitted.
Low 400 keeps only the bottom band. It is the simplest way to put a hard-wearing material where a sliding door takes its knocks while leaving the rest of the face to a single tall panel of mirror or glass.
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Questions about the Low 400 layout.
A sliding door with a fixed 400mm panel at the bottom and one large panel above it, divided by a 30mm cross rail. The lower band is usually woodgrain or a painted board, and the upper panel is usually mirror or frosted glass. On a 2400mm opening the upper panel is about 1833mm high.
Because the bottom 400mm of a wardrobe door is where it gets kicked, knocked by the vacuum cleaner and scuffed by shoes. Mirror there shows every mark; an 18mm woodgrain or painted board hides them and wipes clean. The mirror above still reflects a full figure from across the room, so nothing useful is lost.
Four hundred is the standard and suits most beds and skirtings; it reads as a plinth. Three hundred is a finer line for a lower bed, a smaller room or a ceiling under 2300mm where the upper panel needs every millimetre. Your designer will draw both against the furniture in the room. See Low 300.
Yes. The rail is cut at exactly the same height on every door, so with the doors closed the band runs as one line from wall to wall across two, three or four doors, and the wardrobe appears to stand on a continuous plinth.
Yes. A black or gun metal painted band under a black frame makes the band read as a deep bottom rail and the door as a single dark-edged mirror. A contrasting woodgrain band makes the plinth a feature. Both are common; it depends on whether you want the wardrobe to anchor the room or disappear into it.
A little more than a Full Panel door of the same size, because of the extra rail and second panel. Sliding wardrobes start from £900 per metre (Level 3 of our price guide, or £1,020 per metre with mirror or glass doors at Level 4), fitted with a 10-year guarantee, and a three-door banded wardrobe about 3000mm wide sits nearer the York at £4,995. The exact price is confirmed after the free home design visit.
A plinth to stand on. One design visit.
Our senior designer measures the room, checks the bed and skirting heights, and brings woodgrain and mirror samples so you can see the band at full size.