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Ask anyone with a chest of drawers which one they open most. It's almost always the same answer. The top drawer, or whichever one sits at the most comfortable reach height, ends up holding everything that gets used daily. The rest hold everything else — which often means they hold things that never get touched.

Most awkward spaces in a home get ignored. They're too irregular for standard furniture, too useful to leave empty, and too easy to put off. This Cork project had exactly that problem. A sloped ceiling cut across one wall, leaving a triangular space that standard wardrobes couldn't touch.

A walk-in wardrobe sounds straightforward until you start measuring. The room might exist - a spare bedroom, a boxroom, a section of a large master - but whether it can function as a proper walk-in is a different question. The difference between a walk-in wardrobe and a very inconvenient storage room comes down to a few critical dimensions.

When Ray Kroc was perfecting the first McDonald's kitchen, he didn't start with blueprints. He taped out the entire layout on a parking lot, had staff walk through every movement, and adjusted the spacing until the workflow was right. Only then did he build. The principle was simple: test the reality before you fix it in place.