Pole System Wardrobe. The Aluminum War begins...
Halo everyone! Long time no blog, got miss me?? muhhahaha...
Last weekend was our "Wardrobe hunt" weekend. We wanted to find out more about those pole system wardrobe that is highly customizable.
First stop was Alumix (www.alumix.com) at Toa Payoh. Wah (meaning wow) that place not easy to find if (you) dun have car. And so happen I dun have car that day...
The company is call Zhaplin Work Pte Ltd and they actually supply two brands of pole systems; Alumix and Ximula. If you were to see properly, the names of the two brands are actually the reverse of each other. Interesting...
Ximula is their higher range system featuring thinner poles (with 4 ways of mounting it), better customizations (in terms of both length and width of shelves and cupboards) and more range of colours and finishes to choose from. It is also able to hold heavier load (up to 70kg, as oppose to 30kg for Alumix). Of course with these flexibility and chooses comes a price, it is about 70% more expensive than the sister brand Alumix.
Alumix features thicker poles (though some would prefer the more curvy design. Has two ways of mounting it) but one can only choose the length of the items as the width are mostly fixed. Also, there are less options (aka more boring) when it comes to finishings and colours. There are also less aluminum used (plastic are used in place).
Given my wardrobe design of about 11ft, Almuix would cost about $1.5k and Ximula about $2.3k. If we were to include doors and partitions Alumix would be about $2.7k and Ximula about $3.5k.
Next up we went to IMM to check out J-system as well as OM. J-system pole system seems more expensive, about $3.4k for the system and about additional $2.3k more for the doors and partition. Dun ask me why so expensive, we didn't bother asking.
OM's system (www.cupboards.com.sg) looks cool. Again they also have two systems; Illumiflex and Innoflex. As the name states, Illumiflex can have lights embedded in the pole itself. Basically the pole looks like that of Alumix (think curvy) but with the lights in there to light up your wardrobe, looks cool man. This system would be suitable for those looking at doing up a Walk-in Wardrobe.
Innoflex on the other hand is like none of the system we have seen before. It have many of those thin aluminum poles (more like thin bars) and is very customizable. It however more suitable for a closed up wardrobe.
Features I love about OM is that they can customize items of the wardrobe to your liking. For example, I like a drawer with a glass top and having small squares that I can put my cufflinks or ties, they can provide it. Zhaplin is unable to do such customization as they are only suppliers (and they supply only fixed items). However, OM's pole system is mounting from floor to ceiling unlike Zhaplin's system that can mount wall to floor. The benefit of this is if you shift house, you would be able to bring it to your new home (regardless of the difference in the height of your rooms between your old and new home) whereas the ceiling to floor system would be subjected to your new house ceiling being same of lower than your existing home (since they can cut the pole but not extend it).
I have a friend who recommended Eka by Eureka (www.ekabyeureka.com) at Ubi. I might check it out and update again.
Halo everyone! Long time no blog, got miss me?? muhhahaha...
Last weekend was our "Wardrobe hunt" weekend. We wanted to find out more about those pole system wardrobe that is highly customizable.
First stop was Alumix (www.alumix.com) at Toa Payoh. Wah (meaning wow) that place not easy to find if (you) dun have car. And so happen I dun have car that day...
The company is call Zhaplin Work Pte Ltd and they actually supply two brands of pole systems; Alumix and Ximula. If you were to see properly, the names of the two brands are actually the reverse of each other. Interesting...
Ximula is their higher range system featuring thinner poles (with 4 ways of mounting it), better customizations (in terms of both length and width of shelves and cupboards) and more range of colours and finishes to choose from. It is also able to hold heavier load (up to 70kg, as oppose to 30kg for Alumix). Of course with these flexibility and chooses comes a price, it is about 70% more expensive than the sister brand Alumix.
Alumix features thicker poles (though some would prefer the more curvy design. Has two ways of mounting it) but one can only choose the length of the items as the width are mostly fixed. Also, there are less options (aka more boring) when it comes to finishings and colours. There are also less aluminum used (plastic are used in place).
Given my wardrobe design of about 11ft, Almuix would cost about $1.5k and Ximula about $2.3k. If we were to include doors and partitions Alumix would be about $2.7k and Ximula about $3.5k.
Next up we went to IMM to check out J-system as well as OM. J-system pole system seems more expensive, about $3.4k for the system and about additional $2.3k more for the doors and partition. Dun ask me why so expensive, we didn't bother asking.
OM's system (www.cupboards.com.sg) looks cool. Again they also have two systems; Illumiflex and Innoflex. As the name states, Illumiflex can have lights embedded in the pole itself. Basically the pole looks like that of Alumix (think curvy) but with the lights in there to light up your wardrobe, looks cool man. This system would be suitable for those looking at doing up a Walk-in Wardrobe.
Innoflex on the other hand is like none of the system we have seen before. It have many of those thin aluminum poles (more like thin bars) and is very customizable. It however more suitable for a closed up wardrobe.
Features I love about OM is that they can customize items of the wardrobe to your liking. For example, I like a drawer with a glass top and having small squares that I can put my cufflinks or ties, they can provide it. Zhaplin is unable to do such customization as they are only suppliers (and they supply only fixed items). However, OM's pole system is mounting from floor to ceiling unlike Zhaplin's system that can mount wall to floor. The benefit of this is if you shift house, you would be able to bring it to your new home (regardless of the difference in the height of your rooms between your old and new home) whereas the ceiling to floor system would be subjected to your new house ceiling being same of lower than your existing home (since they can cut the pole but not extend it).
I have a friend who recommended Eka by Eureka (www.ekabyeureka.com) at Ubi. I might check it out and update again.
posted by Vincent at
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1 Comments:
Thanks for detailed sharing. Can u please tell me if they use nails to fasten the poles
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