Price of a
made-to-measure wardrobe.

The survey covers the complete wardrobes of 18 quotes and the wardrobe doors alone of 12 quotes, that is 25 different quotes, since some price both. A wardrobe repeated identically in several quotes is counted only once in the median. Prices are supplied and installed, excluding removal, painting and electrics, which have their own line.

The price per linear metre can only be calculated on the lines that give the length of the unit: a 1.80 m cupboard at €1,000 excl. VAT, another of 2.50 m at €1,600, a straight 3 m wardrobe at €2,500 and an L-shaped wardrobe of 1.50 m by 1.80 m at the same price. These four lines, taken from three quotes, give €556 to €833 excl. VAT per metre: hence the rounded range of €550 to €850. The last two lines of the table rest on few quotes: read them as benchmarks.

The dimensions first. Our wardrobes range from modules fitted at 2.00 m high to units built up to 2.49 m, almost to the ceiling. The depth, for its part, hardly changes: 60 cm in all the quotes that state it. An L-shaped wardrobe costs more than a straight one of the same length, because of the corner to be dealt with.

The doors next. A three-leaf sliding front, as on the 3 m wardrobe mentioned above, weighs on the total. Without doors, the fitting stays open and the budget drops, but clothes gather dust: it is a choice to make room by room.

The interior finally. A cloakroom unit priced in 2025, at €1,688 excl. VAT, consists of a shelved unit with an intermediate shelf and hanging rail, a low unit with a drawer and filler strips to finish against the walls. Every drawer, every extra rail and every finish adds to the price. Depending on the project, the wardrobe assembles manufacturer's carcasses, adjusted on site, or it is made to plan: this is the case of the entrance storage at €3,800 excl. VAT, designed by our firm and then made and installed by our salaried joiners.

An existing cupboard does not always need to be demolished. A 2025 quote prices both options side by side for three bedrooms: €700 excl. VAT for the door alone of a 2.50 m cupboard, €1,600 with the interior fittings; €500 against €1,000 for 1.80 m. The interior fittings therefore represent €500 to €900 excl. VAT per cupboard here.

The price of a sliding door alone follows its width: on that same quote, €300 excl. VAT for 1.20 m, €500 for 1.80 m, €700 for 2.50 m, at a height of 2.10 m. Our 2024 quotes showed doors from €100 to €350 excl. VAT, those of 2025 from €300 to €700: ranges and dimensions are not the same from one year to the next, hence the value of having your cupboard priced at its actual dimensions. One isolated 2024 line, at under €50, is excluded from the survey.

For the hinged doors of the rooms, see our guide to the price of an installed interior door: the same joiners fit doors and cupboards, often in the same week.

Removal of the old cupboard: €250 excl. VAT per cupboard demolished, on the only quote that prices it separately. Lighting: three recessed spotlights in a wardrobe, controlled by a detector, come to €330 excl. VAT as a lump sum in a 2025 quote. Nothing is more pleasant than a light that comes on when you open the door, but the cable has to be pulled before the partitions are closed.

Finishes are settled with the rest of the room. Two of our quotes specify that no skirting board is fitted behind the wardrobes: the unit goes against the bare wall, which avoids paying for a hidden length. Conversely, one of our quotes includes the painting of the cupboard interiors in the wall area, and another prices the "bedroom + wardrobe" flooring in one piece: the bedroom floor continues under the unit.

Under a slope or under a staircase, a cupboard is designed case by case. None of our 2024-2026 quotes prices one: we therefore give no price. These storage units most often come out of a convertible loft project, where every corner under the rafters counts.

In a home completed more than two years ago, the installation of a wardrobe can fall under VAT at 10%, on one condition: that it is built into the structure and fitted to the layout of the room, adjusted between two walls or under a ceiling. The BOFiP (BOI-TVA-LIQ-30-20-90-20), on the other hand, leaves freestanding storage units, placed on the floor or loosely fixed, which can be carried away without damaging anything, at the standard rate of 20%. In the case of replacement, it specifies that made-to-measure cupboard doors and shelving follow the rate of the elements they replace.

In practice, a wardrobe built to measure into an alcove is invoiced at 10%, a freestanding wardrobe placed against a wall at 20%. The detail of the conditions and of the certificate to be provided is in our guide to the VAT rate on building work. For a kitchen, the same logic applies, with appliances always at 20%: we covered this in our guide to the price of a made-to-measure kitchen.

Example, adding up lines from our quotes for a master bedroom: a wardrobe at €3,000 excl. VAT, removal of the old cupboard at €250 and three detector-controlled spotlights at €330, that is €3,580 excl. VAT, or €3,938 incl. VAT at 10%.