How we resolve irregular spaces with fitted joinery

Measure first, then draw

Most storage problems are really planning problems. Before anything is drawn we take the room apart: which walls are structural, where the services run, how deep the wardrobe can actually be once the sliding door track is accounted for.

On a recent Ras Al Khaimah project the living room had four different wall angles and a structural column in the middle of the joinery run. Instead of boxing it in, the column became the division between a display wall and a full-height cupboard, and the irregular corner behind it became the bar.

What gets resolved in the drawing

Recessed handles, shadow gaps, filler widths, service voids and socket positions are all resolved on paper, because none of them can be invented on site. Every cabinet is then pre-assembled in the factory and photographed before it is packed.

The result is a fitted wall that looks like part of the architecture — and an installation that takes days rather than weeks.