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Built-in furniture

A hallway with a bench and storage, and a laundry room with the washer and dryer built into one recess, in an Ursynów house.

Hallway with a bench and built-in storage in Ursynów
Category
Built-in furniture
Location
Ursynów, Warsaw
Year
2025
Floor area
11 m²
Scope
design, production, fitting
Timescale
6 weeks

The brief

The hallway in this Ursynów house was narrow with no enclosed storage at all, so the vacuum cleaner, the ironing board and whichever shoes suited the weather all sat out in the open. The laundry room next to it had just a washer and dryer stacked on top of each other, with nowhere for a laundry basket or cleaning products, which had been piling up on the windowsill.

Our approach

In the hallway, we designed a unit running the full length of one wall: a bench to sit on while you do up your shoes, a closed cupboard for the vacuum cleaner and ironing board, and open sections for seasonal shoes. In the laundry room, we built the washer and dryer into a single recess, with a pull-out laundry basket right beside it and a cabinet above the machines for cleaning products, closed off from children. Fronts in both rooms are finished in the same wood-textured laminate, so the hallway and laundry room read as one scheme, even though they're two separate, small spaces. Design, production and fitting took six weeks.

Gallery

Before and after

We took both photos from the same point. Move the slider to compare them.

The same hallway after the work: a bench, a storage cupboard and recesses for shoes
The Ursynów hallway before the work, with no closed storage

Materials and hardware

Each of these materials has its own entry in the materials library: how it ages, what damages it and how to look after it.

  • Sample of melamine board with a wood-grain texture

    Fronts

    Textured melamine board

    Board with a wood decor and a grain you can feel: the most affordable front, and one that won't fade.

  • Full-extension soft-close drawer pulled out

    Interiors, fittings and handles

    Full-extension soft-close drawers

    The drawer runs out to its full depth, and a damper closes the last few centimetres without a bang.

  • Metal handles and knobs laid on sample fronts

    Interiors, fittings and handles

    Handles, profiles and knobs

    Bar handles, knobs and edge profiles in aluminium, steel or brass. The simplest way to open a front.

Your project

Send us an enquiry with the room's measurements and a few photos, or book a consultation. From there, we'll tell you how we'd approach your project and roughly how long it would take.