Small Bedroom, Big Style: How Replacement Wardrobe Doors Transform Compact Spaces

Designing and decorating a small bedroom is no easy task, as you’ll need to give extra care and attention to striking the right balance between functionality and style. Regardless of the size of our bedroom, we all deserve a space that can provide a retreat from the busy outside world and enable us to truly rest and recharge. 

Here we explore a selection of designer-approved tips and tricks that you can employ to create your dream bedroom, even in the smallest spaces.

Smart Small Bedroom Design Tips with Replacement Wardrobe Doors

Maximise storage with built-in wardrobes 

Small spaces often suffer from excess clutter, especially when they simply don’t offer sufficient storage to house all your essentials. Built-in wardrobes can provide a variety of storage options in a relatively compact space and can make otherwise tricky areas of a space, such as alcoves, more usable. 

Built-in wardrobe systems can be costly, however, you can save money without compromising on looks by choosing a basic cupboard system and investing in replacement wardrobe doors that suit your style. 

Our Bella Shaker wardrobe doors are supremely versatile and can bring a sense of understated chic to both contemporary and more traditional bedrooms. However, if you’re looking for sleek bedroom doors, our Zurfiz doors with colour matched edges may be a better fit. 

Add extra decoration with your choice of replacement wardrobe doors 

While you may be working with a small footprint, there’s no reason why you can’t add decorative flourishes to your space. In fact, adding decoration is important to ensure that your bedroom has a distinct personality and is a welcoming space you want to spend time enjoying.

There are many ways to incorporate decorative elements into your bedroom, including bedding, rugs and curtains. But you can also add decorative elements with your choice of replacement wardrobe doors, as many of our doors have stylish elements, such as panelling and curved edges.

Our Bella Aldridge doors feature beautiful panelling, which offers a sense of contemporary elegance to a bedroom. For an even more characterful look, our Bella Westbury doors feature tongue and groove style detailing and beautifully curved lines that are bursting with personality.

Choose multi-purpose pieces of furniture 

Rather than opting for a standard compact bedside table, why not choose a larger chest of drawers instead? You can use the top to house a lamp, a book and anything else you like to have within easy reach during the night, and enjoy some extra drawers that can offer much-needed storage.

Pro Tip: If you would prefer the look of a smaller, dedicated bedside table, choose one that has a bit of storage, whether that’s a drawer or shelves that are tucked behind a door, as this will allow you to keep clutter around your bed to a minimum.

Design for functionality 

When designing small spaces, it’s so important that they’re functional and align with the ways in which you want to use your space. While many people choose to have a bedside table on either side of their bed, you may find that replacing one of those tables with a cosy armchair for reading is a better use of that space.

Pro Tip: At the beginning of your design process, take the time to list the ways in which you want to utilise your bedroom space. Then, you can start thinking about the design flourishes that will help you to achieve a personalised space that works for you.

Incorporate colour with accents and accessories

While an all-white space can look chic when created with care, bedrooms benefit from colour to create a look and feel of cosiness and comfort. By keeping your walls a light, bright neutral tone, you’ll continue to experience the sense of space this can offer and create enough visual space in your bedroom to incorporate some small flashes of colour and personality.

Replacement wardrobe doors can also present an opportunity to experiment with colour, particularly as all Happy Doors doors are available in a variety of both soft and richer hues.

A soft pistachio green or dusky pink are both beautiful additions to a bedroom, as these pastel hues can bring personality without taking away from the overall brightness of your space. However, if pastel tones aren’t your style, you can also play around with deeper hues such as indigo blue or fir green, which will enable you to lean into heritage style without overwhelming a small bedroom.

Maximise vertical space

In a small space, it can be tempting to keep your walls as free and open as possible, however, this can actually make the room feel smaller. Rather than choosing short curtains, instead adorn your windows with floor length curtains to really draw attention to the vertical space within the room.

Similarly, adding some floating shelves to house artwork, books and a carefully curated selection of ornaments can create a chic design feature and encourage the eye to take in the full scope of the room.

Happy Doors replacement wardrobe doors 

If you’re looking for stylish wardrobe doors to complete your dream bedroom, you’re in the right place. You can browse our full collection online right now, and if you have any questions, you can get in touch with us directly. No query is too big or too small, so please give us a call on 0345 257 2526 Monday-Friday between 8:30am and 5pm or drop an email to hello@happy-doors.co.uk.

Frequently Asked Questions 

What style of bedroom doors is right for a modern bedroom?

Modern bedrooms often benefit from wardrobe doors with a sleek silhouette, which is why slab style and handleless doors are consistently popular.

Is it easy to install replacement wardrobe doors? 

Yes, installing Happy Doors replacement wardrobe doors is simple, and the only tool you’ll need is a screwdriver. We’ve put together a short how-to install wardrobe doors guide that’s easy to follow and will have your new doors perfectly installed in no time at all.