Wide 400 Sliding Wardrobe Doors, Made to Measure in London
A 400mm vertical band running the full height of each door, beside a wider panel. The one vertical layout of the twelve: it adds height to a low room and gives every door a timber edge and a mirror face.
The Wide 400 door, drawn
Instead of a horizontal rail, a 30mm vertical mullion divides the door into two columns: a 400mm band and a wider panel that takes the rest of the width, 540mm on a 1030mm door. Both columns run the full 2263mm between the top and bottom rails, so the eye reads height rather than width. The 400mm column is usually woodgrain or a painted board and the wider one mirror or glass, which gives each door a solid edge and a tall reflection, and across a run the alternation of timber and mirror sets up a vertical rhythm that suits a low-ceilinged room.
Panels per door two columns · Band 400mm wide, full height · Wider panel 540mm on a 1030mm door · Best in rooms under 2400mm, or any room that wants height
Getting a Wide 400 door right
Six things a designer checks before a vertical-band door is drawn.
Which side the band sits
On a run of doors the bands can all sit on the same side, for a march of timber and mirror, or mirror each other from the centre, for symmetry. It is decided on the drawing.
Door width
A 400mm band needs a door wide enough to leave a useful mirror beside it. Below about 900mm the mirror column gets narrow; above 1200mm the door gets heavy.
The mirror column
At 540mm wide and 2263mm high on a standard door, it is a full-length mirror. Two of them side by side across a meeting give a mirror over a metre wide.
Low ceilings
Vertical lines lift a room. In a 2200mm room, Wide 400 makes the wardrobe look taller where any horizontal band would make it look lower.
The mullion
One vertical 30mm frame member per door, in the frame finish. In black it is a strong line; in silver or champagne it nearly disappears against a mirror.
Wear
With no horizontal rail there is no kick band. The woodgrain column takes some knocks, but a mirror column still runs to 56mm from the floor, as on a Full Panel door.
The Wide 400 door at three ceiling heights
How the Wide 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 | 400mm woodgrain column · 540mm mirror column |
| 2400mm opening Most rooms | 2340mm high × 1030mm wide, three doors on 3000mm | 400mm woodgrain column · 540mm mirror column |
| 2600mm opening | 2540mm high × 1030mm wide, three doors on 3000mm | 400mm woodgrain column · 540mm mirror column |
Three Wide 400 doors on one opening
Across a 3000mm opening the three 1030mm doors give six vertical columns: three of 400mm woodgrain and three of 540mm mirror, alternating from wall to wall. The middle door runs on the back track, 88mm behind the others, and the meetings overlap by 45mm. Because every line on the face is vertical, the run reads taller than it is, and because every door has a solid column there is always a timber edge to take hold of when sliding the door.
Door width 1030mm, three on 3000mm · Columns across the run six, alternating 400mm and 540mm · Horizontal lines none between the top and bottom rails · Tracks two, 45mm overlaps
Planning a Wide 400 wardrobe
Five decisions, in the order your designer makes them.
Timber and mirror, built
The Windsor is a three-door sliding wardrobe in Grey Oak woodgrain with a silver mirror centre door and black profiles, 3000mm wide and 2400mm high, from £2,600 fitted. It mixes timber and mirror door by door, so the rhythm across the run is oak, mirror, oak.
Wide 400 puts the same two materials inside every door: a 400mm woodgrain column beside a tall mirror. The rhythm becomes six columns rather than three doors, and every door has both a solid edge and a reflection.
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Questions about the Wide 400 layout.
A sliding door divided vertically, not horizontally: a 400mm band runs the full height of the door beside a wider panel that takes the remaining width. The band is usually woodgrain or a painted board and the wider panel mirror or glass. It is the only one of Metro's twelve standard layouts with a vertical division.
To add height. Every other banded layout draws horizontal lines across the wardrobe, which widens it and lowers the room. A vertical band does the opposite. In a room under 2400mm, or in a wide room with a low ceiling, Wide 400 makes the wardrobe look taller than a Full Panel mirror would.
On a standard 1030mm door, about 540mm, and the full height of the door. Where two doors meet, the two mirror columns can sit side by side to give a reflection over a metre wide, or the bands can be placed at the meeting so the run alternates strictly. Your designer draws both.
Yes. The band sits to the left or right of each door as drawn. Bands all to one side give a repeating rhythm; bands mirrored about the centre of the run give symmetry. On a two-door wardrobe the usual choice is bands to the outside and the two mirrors meeting in the middle.
Yes, and it is one of the best layouts for one. Two doors of about 1200mm on a 2400mm opening each carry a 400mm band and a 740mm mirror; with the bands to the outside, the closed wardrobe shows a mirror nearly 1.5 metres wide framed in timber.
Similar to a horizontally banded door: one extra frame member and two panels per door. 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 the Windsor, a three-door mixed timber and mirror wardrobe of 3000mm, is from £2,600. The exact figure for your opening is confirmed after the free home design visit.
Height for a low room. One design visit.
Our senior designer measures the room, draws the columns across the run both ways, and brings woodgrain and mirror samples to your home, free.