3D made-to-measure wardrobe configurator

Demand is growing faster than supply

The phrase “szafa na wymiar konfigurator” (made-to-measure wardrobe configurator) gets about 742 searches a month and is growing 75% year on year, “meble na wymiar konfigurator” (made-to-measure furniture configurator) by 99%, and “konfigurator szaf przesuwnych” (sliding wardrobe configurator) by 284%, although from a small base of 61 queries (Google Keyword Planner, October 2025–September 2026). The whole category is about 8,000 queries a month and +18.8% year on year. Peaks fall in January, August and September. The customer wants to see the wardrobe and know the price before booking a measuring visit.

BRW, Superszafy, IKEA, Goryniak and Tylko already show a live price, while Komandor Designer and Fabryka Mebli end with “send for a quote” (research of 21 October 2026). 3D alone no longer stands out, because Goryniak, GTV and Pickawood have it. What stands out is the movement of the doors, an interior you can see and price, and rules that match the hardware data sheets. That is what the demo is built on.

Alcove or full carcass

The first choice is the type of build. An alcove fit is cheaper, because the walls, ceiling and floor form the frame of the wardrobe (Komandor). The price covers the fronts, the interior and the scribing strips to the walls. A wardrobe against a wall gets a full carcass: sides, top, bottom and back.

The market standard is 18 mm melamine-faced chipboard, a 3 mm HDF back set in a groove, and 0.8 mm edging on the carcass and 2 mm on the fronts (BRW, flexmeble). For a freestanding wardrobe the configurator reminds you to leave about 10 cm of free space below the ceiling, because the assembled carcass has to be tilted upright (Tylko, Tone wardrobe data sheet).

An alcove is measured at several points and the smallest dimension is used, because walls are rarely parallel (Superszafy). German configurators also handle sloping ceilings: left, right and rear (deinSchrank), and side fitting from a 40 cm wall section (Höffner). The demo handles an alcove and a carcass against a wall, without sloping ceilings.

Wardrobe size and depth

Width and height are set with a slider in 1 cm steps, and the depth is chosen from three values. Dimension lines appear on the model.

Depth decides what fits inside. A hanger needs about 55 cm net, and the standard with hinged doors is 60–62 cm (vox.pl, selishome). Sliding doors take a few centimetres for the tracks, so a wardrobe with them is 60–65 cm deep (Komandor). For comparison, IKEA PAX comes in depths of 38, 44, 60 and 66 cm and two heights: 201.2 and 236.4 cm (kb.pl).

• 45 cm: a shelving wardrobe. Modules with a hanging rail or a pull-down rail get shelves instead, and the configurator says why.
• 60 cm: the standard for hangers and the minimum depth for sliding doors.
• 65 cm: a deep wardrobe with room to spare for the tracks and thicker coats.

Sliding doors: how many

The number of doors follows from the wardrobe width and the profile limit. The door width is calculated with the overlap: (width + (n − 1) × overlap) / n (research of 21 October 2026). The overlap is 2–5 cm per door (mocne-drzwi.pl), 3 cm in the demo. In the “Doors” step you can only choose numbers of doors that fit within the limits. The others are blocked with the reason shown: a door would be wider than 150 cm or narrower than 50 cm.

The maximum door height in Komandor profiles is 2.75 m. Hettich TopLine L takes a door of up to 50 kg, 500–1,500 mm wide and up to 2,600 mm high (hettich.com). Door load capacities on the Polish market are 20–120 kg (kb.pl). The demo uses the limits of an aluminium profile: a door 50–150 cm wide and up to 275 cm high.

Once sliding doors are chosen, the configurator watches three things. The wardrobe is at least 100 cm wide, because each of the two doors is at least 50 cm. A height above 275 cm is trimmed. A depth of 45 cm changes to 60 cm. Each such change has a short note with the reason. The “Slide the doors” button moves a door along the track.

The profile comes in three colours: silver anodised, champagne and matt black. Polish configurators add PLN 50, 120 or 150 per door for the profile colour (Superszafy, Goryniak), and the demo applies this surcharge the same way, per door.

Hinged fronts and open wardrobe

With hinged fronts you do not choose the number of doors. It follows from the wardrobe width. There is no public data sheet for the maximum hinged front, so the demo uses an estimate from the research: up to about 60 cm wide and 240 cm high for 18 mm board. If a front would be taller, a row of top cupboards appears above the fronts, and the configurator says so.

The number of hinges depends on the front height. A front taller than 900 mm needs three hinges, and the gaps between fronts are 3 mm (BRW). The “Open / close fronts” button opens the doors. The third option is a wardrobe without fronts, i.e. an open walk-in wardrobe, where the interior is visible straight away.

Front infills and colours

There are many sliding door infills on the market: board, mirror, lacobel and coloured glass, frosted glass, acrylic, veneer, bamboo and wicker, and printed glass (Komandor). The demo has six options:

• laminated board;
• silver mirror;
• mirror and board alternating, door by door;
• back-painted glass (lacobel);
• lacquered MDF;
• oak veneer.

The front colour is chosen for board, lacobel and MDF. Mirror and veneer have their own look. The carcass and interior have a separate colour. The demo palette has five decors: white, cashmere grey, stone grey, black and natural oak. In a deployment the decors come from the board catalogue the workshop uses.

The infill changes the price. Mirror, lacobel, veneer and lacquered MDF cost more than board (Komandor, find-me.pl). The demo calculates this with a multiplier on the price per square metre of front, and for the “mirror and board” variant it averages the multiplier across the doors.

Interior module by module

The interior is divided into modules. An 18 mm board shelf spans up to about 70–80 cm, and a longer one needs 22 mm board or a partition (europlyta, research of 21 October 2026). The demo divides the wardrobe so that no shelf exceeds 80 cm: a 240 cm wardrobe has three modules, and a 400 cm one five. Each module is set separately:

• hanging rail and shelves;
• two hanging rails;
• shelves only;
• three drawers and shelves;
• pull-down rail (wardrobe lift).

Changing the interior slides the door away from the module, so the customer sees the effect without opening the doors. Above the hanging rail there is a fixed shelf 5 cm higher (BRW). The shelves have a row of holes at 32 mm spacing for adjustment, as at Pickawood. The drawers have full-extension runners with soft close. In quotes these are usually Blum Tandembox, Metalbox, Legrabox or Merivobox, and drawers raise the price of the wardrobe by 10–15% (Komandor).

The summary shows how many hangers the rails and pull-down rails hold. This is an estimate: the research has no source for hanger width, so the demo assumes about 3 cm of rail per hanger. The number changes with every change of width and modules.

Pull-down rail for a tall wardrobe

A pull-down rail is a hanging rail that lowers, for tall wardrobes. The customer reaches clothes in the upper zone without a ladder. It is chosen to match the interior width of the module:

The data come from the GTV PG-ST8311520 and PG-AL6083-20 data sheets and the CENEROmini leaflet. The configurator measures the module interior and says which range fits. If a module is narrower than 445 mm, the pull-down rail is replaced with a hanging rail, with a note. The “Lower / raise the pull-down rail” button lowers the rail with the clothes. A GTV pull-down rail costs PLN 139–169 (Leroy Merlin).

LED lighting

LED in the demo is a strip under the top panel of each module that lights up when the doors open, as in Höffner's configurator. The LED surcharge is PLN 200–500 (find-me.pl), and the demo prices it per module. A wardrobe with lighting may need space behind the back: for the Tone wardrobe with LED, Tylko requires 4 cm from the wall when there is a socket behind the wardrobe, and 2 cm without LED.

Rules a joiner knows

An option that does not fit the dimensions is blocked with the reason shown. If the customer changes a dimension later, the configurator adjusts any choice that no longer fits and says what it changed. Examples from the demo:

• a sliding door is 50–150 cm wide, so the number of doors follows the wardrobe width (Komandor, Hettich);
• sliding doors are up to 2.75 m high and need a depth of at least 60 cm, because the track takes a few centimetres;
• at a depth of 45 cm hanging rails turn into shelves, and choosing a rail in a 45 cm wardrobe deepens it to 60 cm;
• an 18 mm board shelf spans up to about 80 cm, so a wide wardrobe is divided into modules;
• a pull-down rail only goes into a module of the right width, and the configurator gives the GTV range;
• a freestanding wardrobe needs about 10 cm below the ceiling.

Every limit is a data point with a source. When a workshop works with the ST10 steel profile and its 1.25 m limit, one number changes, and the configurator recalculates the doors by itself.

How the price is calculated in the demo

Manufacturers price a wardrobe in three ways: per square metre of front (find-me.pl), per linear metre (joiners) or parametrically from board, edging, fronts, profiles, hardware, accessories and installation (Komandor, BRW, Superszafy). Komandor says outright that “a price per metre makes no sense”. The demo calculates parametrically, and the “How is it priced?” button expands each item with its calculation:

• scribing strips for an alcove, or a board carcass per square metre for a wardrobe against a wall;
• sliding doors per square metre with an infill multiplier, the profile per door, the top and bottom track per linear metre;
• hinged fronts per square metre and hinges per piece;
• each interior module separately: shelves, rails, drawers, pull-down rail;
• LED per module;
• measuring, transport and installation as a percentage of the value.

A control example from the research: a 240 × 260 cm alcove, two doors with mirror and board, three interior modules (rail with shelves, three drawers, pull-down rail). The result is about PLN 9,300 with installation. At the average of PLN 1,467/m² of front (find-me.pl), the same 6.24 m² of front would cost PLN 9,150 without the interior, so the model is on the conservative side. The prices in the demo are samples. In a deployment the configurator calculates from the manufacturer's price list.

Lead time is also an argument in a sales conversation. In Poland made-to-measure wardrobes are made in 7 days (BRW) or 3–6 weeks (Komandor), while Pickawood in Germany quotes 8–13 weeks.

What the workshop and manufacturer get

The summary collects the type of build with dimensions, the doors (number and width of sliding doors, or number of fronts), the infill, carcass colour, the interior module by module, capacity and lighting, alongside the price with its items. The salesperson talks about a specific wardrobe, not about “how much is a 2 m wardrobe”. In a deployment the profiles, decors, interior modules and rates come from the manufacturer's range.

A workshop that also makes dining furniture will find the same rule logic in the 3D dining table configurator and the 3D chair configurator, and lighting is shown in the 3D lamp configurator. You can work out an indicative implementation cost in the configurator cost estimator.