01 / Choosing well
Read the guideSliding or hinged wardrobe doors? How to choose for your room
Sliding or hinged wardrobe doors? When each one wins on space, access, cleaning and alignment, and what drives the cost, in UAE apartments and villas.
For makers
You build things yourself. Here are our boards and our rules.
Our guides explain how we draw a box, the 32 mm system, edge banding and grain, which board copes with the humidity and what the mechanisms inside a cabinet really need. The same rules our workshop builds by, with the numbers from the engine that sizes every part.
- How a box is drawn, with its part codes
- A bookcase cut list and board count, worked through
- The 32 mm system, explained
- Which board for a damp kitchen
- Corner units, larders and bins that fit
Guides
Guides for makers
02 / Choosing well
Read the guideMDF, plywood or chipboard? The best material for kitchen cabinets in UAE humidity
Which board to choose for kitchen cabinets in the UAE: moisture resistant MDF, chipboard and marine plywood compared, plus fronts from melamine to super matt and why edge banding matters.
03 / Choosing well
Read the guideWardrobe internals by width: hanging, shelves and drawers that fit the recess
How many bays a recess gives you, what hangs how long, how deep a shelf for folded clothes and where the drawers go, with the figures behind each rule.
04 / Choosing well
Read the guideWall unit depths and TV sizes: the niche, the shelf and the distance to the sofa
TV sizes in millimetres from makers' own sheets, the air a screen needs in a niche, why our wall units are 300 mm deep, and how high and how far to sit.
05 / Mechanisms and cabinets
Read the guideKitchen corner units: linked pull outs, swing out trays, carousels or corner drawers?
An L or U kitchen leaves a blind corner. The five ways to reach it, which cabinet each one needs, and how much weight the makers say it carries.
06 / Mechanisms and cabinets
Read the guideLarder pull outs: what fits a 150, 300, 450 or 600 mm tall unit
A tall pull out turns a deep pantry into shelves you can see from both sides. The widths, heights and loads makers publish, and the difference between a pull out and a door linked larder.
07 / Mechanisms and cabinets
Read the guideKitchen bins under the sink: sizes, litres and what really fits
Pull out bins, swing out bins and bins behind a door, with the cabinet widths and litres makers publish. And why the sink trap decides more than the cabinet does.
08 / Choosing well
Read the guideInterior doors for a UAE home: solid core, hollow core, flush or panelled
What is inside a door decides how it sounds, swings and copes with a bathroom. Four constructions, with makers' weight and sound figures, and which suits each room.
09 / Choosing well
Read the guideDoor and frame sizes in UAE apartments, and how to measure an opening
Standard leaf sizes, the minimum widths the UAE fire code and accessibility rules ask for, what a frame adds, and the five measurements we need to quote.
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