Hampton Window Seat with Wardrobes London

The Hampton Window Seat with Wardrobes solves the bedroom wall that has a window in the middle of it. Instead of a wardrobe on another wall and a window with nothing under it, a full-height wardrobe stands either side of the window and a cushioned seat spans the sill between them, over four drawers. The window wall becomes the wardrobe wall, and the window becomes a place to sit.

The finish is cashmere slab doors with slim black bar handles inside and out, so the two wardrobes and the seat read as one piece of joinery, and the seat cushion is made to the seat in a fabric chosen at the design visit.

How it works: each wardrobe is a solid-back carcass fixed to the wall, with hanging, shelving and drawers inside planned around what you own. The seat between them is a solid 18mm board on its own carcass, sized to the sill height, with four drawers beneath it on full-extension soft-close runners, two each side of a centre divider. The seat carcass is set off the external wall with a ventilation gap, so the wall behind it stays dry.

The run finishes at the ceiling with no boxed gap above, and the wardrobes are scribed to the walls and the skirting on installation.

Designed around the bedroom

A window seat in a bedroom is where clothes are laid out, a case is packed and a book is read in the morning light. The Hampton keeps the drawers for folded things under the seat, the hanging in the towers either side, and the window clear.

• Two full-height cashmere wardrobes either side of the window
• Cushioned seat over four soft-close drawers between them
• Hanging, shelving and internal drawers planned to what you own
• Slab doors with slim black bar handles
• Solid 18mm seat on its own carcass, ventilated at the back
• Cushion made to the seat, with a removable cover
• Built to the ceiling, scribed to the walls and skirting
• Interiors in Cotta Cremona Oak

Designed for the room: where the window is off-centre the wardrobes are different widths, where the ceiling is high a top box takes the extra, and where you want mirror the tower doors can carry it. The seat can be deepened to a reading depth or kept at the sill.

Built for the bedroom: the drawer fronts under the seat take knees and suitcase corners, so they carry a softened 2mm edge; the towers are fixed to the wall and the ceiling and the seat carcass to the wall behind it, so nothing in the run depends on the floor being level.

The Hampton shown spans a window about 1.2 metres wide with wardrobes of 900mm and 1,200mm either side; the same pieces are drawn to your wall at the design visit.

Manufactured in our Wembley workshop

Your Hampton is cut in our HA9 Wembley factory to the measurements of your bedroom wall: the beam saw sizes every tower and seat panel, the CNC drills for hinges, shelves and runners, and the edge-bander finishes each visible edge, so the two towers and the seat arrive as one matched run.

Drawer boxes are assembled and hung on their runners before delivery, and the seat board is banded before the cushion is cut to it.

At the design visit we take the window width, sill height, ceiling height, skirting and radiator position; on the day of fitting the run is scribed to the walls and the reveal.

Quality you can rely on: your Metro fitted furniture comes with a 10-year guarantee covering parts and labour.