A single wardrobe line rarely travels alone on a fit-out. In the bedrooms, frosted glass aluminum frame wardrobes sit next to kitchen cabinetry with matching glazed doors, display units and interior doors — all of them drawing on the same aluminium profile and, in most schemes, the same glass finish. Budgeting the wardrobe as an isolated line is where quotations start to drift: the frame colour signed off for the bedroom gets ordered again for the kitchen months later, or two rooms in the same unit end up with different glass. Here is how buyers, contractors and project managers scope and cost that wardrobe line inside a wider package, so the figure you approve at tender stage is the figure you pay at delivery.

What actually drives the cost of this wardrobe line

These wardrobes are made to measure: each unit is built to the opening it sits in, with a layout and finish specified for that room. That is why there is no single list price to compare between suppliers, and why four variables — not one — decide what you pay. Settle each of them before you request a quotation rather than after.

• Opening dimensions and run length. A wardrobe filling one wall prices differently from one that wraps a corner or runs floor to ceiling. Measure the clear opening rather than the plaster line, and note what breaks into it: skirting, cornices, structural beams, air-conditioning ducts and light switches all change the panel layout.
• Internal layout. Hanging rails, shelves, drawers, and interior lighting are each priced separately. Count them unit by unit; a single "standard interior" assumption across a whole floor is what turns into surcharges after the order is placed.
• Frame finish. The aluminium frame comes in several finishes, and the colour you choose for the wardrobes normally has to be repeated on other joinery in the same building. Lock it once, in writing.
• Glass type. Frosted glass diffuses light and keeps the contents out of view. The same collection also covers clear, smoked and bronze glass, and mixing those across one project is the quickest route to joinery that does not read as a single design.

Scope it as a package, not as a line item

The commercial case for bundling is simple: one profile extrusion, one glass spec and one fabrication setup serve several products in the same building. Quote the wardrobe schedule and the kitchen schedule together and you specify the frame finish once, confirm the glass once, and put both on one production and shipping plan instead of two.

In practice, a multi-product scope built around this wardrobe line usually covers:

• Bedroom wardrobes in the frosted glass aluminum frame construction, one entry per room, each with its opening dimensions on the drawing;
• Kitchen cabinetry from the matching aluminium frame family — frosted glass aluminum cabinets, for instance, which repeat the glazed-door look above the worktop;
• Display and media units where a glazed front is wanted, ordered on the same frame profile;
• Any other wardrobe type in the same building — a boutique style walk in wardrobe in the master suite, priced on its own joinery schedule but with its frame finish tied to the bedroom set.

SANTERSON operates as a one-stop furniture and building materials supplier, taking projects from design consultation and space planning through material selection, product specification, manufacturing and quality control to project management and handover. For the buyer that means one party holds the schedule for wardrobes, cabinetry, doors, flooring and wall finishes, rather than you reconciling four suppliers whose profiles merely look alike on a sample board.

Take the estimate through four passes

Asking for a price and adjusting it later is how budgets slip. Move the estimate through four passes instead, each of which removes one category of surprise.

Pass 1 — Quantity survey from the drawings

List every unit by room with clear opening width, height and depth, plus door type and panel count. This schedule is what any supplier prices from, and sending it before finish decisions are made keeps competing quotations comparable.

Pass 2 — Fix one finish board

Decide the frame finish and glass type for the entire joinery package at one sitting, then record it in a single schedule that travels with every enquiry. Frosted, smoked, bronze and clear glass respond differently to daylight and to artificial light, so make the choice against physical samples under the room's actual lighting rather than from a photograph.

Pass 3 — Price carcass, doors and internals separately

Ask for the carcass, the glazed doors and the internal fittings as three separate lines. That is what lets you cut a drawer bank or swap a lit shelf for an unlit one later without re-tendering the wardrobe.

Pass 4 — Add the delivery and installation envelope

Made-to-measure joinery is worth little if it lands late or arrives without fixing. Ask what sits inside the quoted price: packaging and container loading, freight, customs documentation, door-to-door delivery to site, installation, inspection and snags. SANTERSON's published service scope includes logistics and door-to-door delivery as well as installation and after-sales support, but which items are included in a specific quotation depends on the project — so have them written into the offer rather than assumed.

Budget leaks and how to close them at scoping stage

A worked scoping example

Consider a three-bedroom apartment: a floor-to-ceiling frosted glass wardrobe with an aluminium frame in each bedroom, a dressing room off the master, and glazed upper cabinets in the open-plan kitchen. The scope that produces a usable budget is not "three wardrobes plus a kitchen". It is three wardrobes dimensioned to their own openings — rail-and-shelf layouts in the two secondary rooms, a drawer bank with full-height hanging in the master — one dressing room fitted out on its own joinery schedule, and glazed upper cabinets specified in the same frame finish and the same frosted glass as the wardrobes.

Priced at that level of detail you can see where the money sits, and you can shift budget between internal fittings without touching doors or frames. The same approach holds across a multi-unit job: group identical room types into one schedule, keep the finish reference constant, and let the quantity survey carry the differences. Variation in layout is expected; variation in frame colour and glass type is what makes a completed interior look as though it was furnished building by building.

What to send with your enquiry

A quotation you can act on arrives when the enquiry answers five questions at the outset:

1. How many units, and what are the clear opening dimensions of each?
2. Which room gets which layout — hanging, shelving, drawers, interior lighting?
3. Which frame finish, and which glass: frosted, clear, smoked or bronze?
4. Which other products in the project must match this wardrobe line?
5. Where is the site, and does the price cover delivery, installation and inspection?

Assembling a joinery package for a villa, apartment or hospitality project? Send the room-by-room schedule and the finish board through SANTERSON's contact page. Dimensions and selected specifications are confirmed for each project before production, so the number you approve is scoped against your drawings rather than a catalogue size.

Dimensions, glass options and frame finishes are confirmed per project before manufacture. Specifications shown on approved drawings take precedence over catalogue descriptions.