When you're furnishing a bedroom from scratch, one of the first practical questions is whether to buy a wardrobe set or piece each item together separately. Here's how the two actually compare.
The Cost Case for Sets
A wardrobe set typically bundles a wardrobe with matching storage — usually a chest of drawers and bedside table — at a combined price that undercuts buying each piece separately at full price. Retailers price sets this way deliberately, since it moves more units of a coordinated range in one transaction.
The Case for Buying Separately
Buying piece by piece makes sense if you already own some bedroom furniture and only need one or two additional items, or if you want to mix finishes rather than match everything from a single range — pairing an oak wardrobe with a painted bedside table, for example. It also lets you delay a purchase (adding a chest of drawers a few months after moving in) rather than buying everything at once.
Matching Finish Is Worth Something Too
Beyond the price, a set guarantees the wardrobe, chest of drawers and bedside table are genuinely the same colour and finish — sourcing pieces separately across different ranges can result in subtle colour mismatches that aren't obvious from photos alone but are noticeable once everything is in the room together.
Our Recommendation
If you're furnishing a bedroom entirely from scratch and don't have a strong preference for mixing finishes, a set is almost always the better-value starting point. If you're topping up an existing room or want a specific combination a set doesn't offer, buying separately gives you that flexibility at a modest cost premium.
Compare our Wardrobe Sets against individual pieces in our full Wardrobes range.