How much do fitted wardrobes cost in Malta?

Buyers arriving from the UK tend to ask for a wardrobe price per metre and expect a number back. In Malta you get a job total instead, and the three routes to buying a wardrobe are priced so differently that comparing them takes a little work. Here are the published figures, what sits behind each, and where the gaps are.

The three tiers, as published

Read across the 200 cm row and the ladder is clear. A 180 cm sliding flat-pack is €499.99. A 200 cm PAX is €851.99–€1,033.99 before anyone puts a screwdriver to it. Bespoke starts at €800 — which is to say the bottom of the bespoke tier lands inside the modular tier once assembly labour is added to the modular price.

That surprises people. The assumption imported from elsewhere is that "made to measure" is a luxury step-change above flatpack. In Malta the bottom of the bespoke band is competitive with the top of the reseller band, and the reason is that the labour to assemble and scribe a modular system is not free either.

Flat-pack

Idea Workmate's figures are floor prices: €299.99 for a four-door unit, €499.99 for a 180 cm sliding. What you are buying is a box of panels that becomes a piece of furniture standing against a wall. It will not follow a wall that is out of plumb, it will not run to a soffit, and it will not close off the dead space above it. In a Maltese shell-form apartment — sold as bare structure, where you are commissioning every finish anyway — that gap between wardrobe top and ceiling tends to become visible and permanent.

Reseller modular

Maltashopper's PAX pricing is €526.99 at 100 cm and €851.99–€1,033.99 at 200 cm. The spread at 200 cm is the door and finish choice. Critically, assembly is booked separately and Maltashopper does not publish what that costs. So the shelf price is not the delivered-and-standing price, and you cannot compare it to a bespoke quote until you have added the labour.

For that labour, Rozie.app's 2026 guide puts assembly-type handyman work at €35–50/hr excluding VAT, with a one-hour minimum. The one-hour minimum matters more than it sounds: it means a twenty-minute callback to adjust a door is billed as an hour.

Bespoke joinery

MelaLocal gives fitted wardrobes from €800–€2,000 and a carpenter's on-site rate of €25–45/hr. For scale, the same source puts fitted kitchens at €3,000–8,000, so the wardrobe band sits roughly a quarter to a third of a kitchen — which is consistent with the amount of carcase, hardware and site time involved.

What the source does not say is what the €800 wardrobe is, or what the €2,000 one is. No width, no door count, no internals. That is the single biggest missing piece in Maltese wardrobe pricing and we will not fill it with invention.

What pushes a bespoke job past €2,000

MelaLocal's band stops at €2,000. Quotes regularly exceed it, and the drivers are predictable even though no source prices them individually:

• Sliding gear. Top-hung sliding systems with soft-close cost considerably more than hinged doors on standard hinges, and they demand a level track and a square opening — which in an older Maltese property means packing and scribing before the doors go on. Note that even in flat-pack, Idea Workmate's sliding unit at €499.99 is priced well above the four-door hinged at €299.99, which tells you sliding carries a premium at every tier.
• Internal fit-out. A carcase with one rail and one shelf is cheap. Drawer banks, pull-out trays, shoe racks, internal lighting and dividers each add material and, more expensively, bench time.
• Veneer versus melamine. The Maltese norm is melamine-faced board and laminate, with real-wood veneer as the step up. Buyers arriving with a mental image of solid oak carcases are pricing a product that is not the market standard here. None of our sources price veneer against melamine, so treat the upgrade as a line item to ask about, not a known percentage.
• Site hours. At €25–45/hr, a job that takes two days on site rather than one adds meaningful cost. Out-of-plumb walls, awkward soffits, and openings in older townhouses all buy site hours.

Deriving a per-linear-metre figure — and why it is ours, not Malta's

No Maltese supplier publishes a per-linear-metre rate for wardrobe joinery. If you want one you have to derive it, and you should see the arithmetic rather than be handed a number.

Take MelaLocal's €800–€2,000 as the total for a single-bedroom wardrobe run. Now assume — and this is our assumption, not anything the source says — that such a run is typically between 2 m and 3 m wide. Then:

1. Lower bound: €800 ÷ 3 m ≈ €267 per linear metre
2. Upper bound: €2,000 ÷ 2 m = €1,000 per linear metre

So a defensible working band is roughly €270–€1,000 per linear metre for bespoke fitted wardrobes, fitted. That is a wide band because it is doing two jobs at once: absorbing the spec range from melamine-and-hinged to veneer-and-sliding, and absorbing our own uncertainty about run width. Anyone quoting you a tight per-metre figure in Malta is either working from their own internal costings — legitimate — or reciting a UK number that does not apply here.

Three Maltese factors that are not in the price list

Shell form. Property here is routinely sold as a shell. There is no wardrobe to rip out and no finished floor or ceiling to work to, which cuts strip-out cost but means the wardrobe is one of several trades being sequenced, and door and drawer clearances depend on a floor finish that may not be down yet.

Apartments and Cap. 398. Common parts in a condominium — stairwells, landings, the façade, the roof — are governed by the Condominium Act, not by whoever is using them that day. Delivering 200 cm panels up a narrow staircase, or hoisting from the street, touches common parts and is a matter for the condominium, not just for you and your carpenter. Settle access before the delivery date, not on it. None of our sources price hoisting.

Gozo. Every delivery to Gozo involves a ferry crossing, for the boards, the doors and the fitter. No source in this set publishes a Gozo surcharge, so ask explicitly whether the quote is delivered-to-Gozo or delivered-to-Ċirkewwa.

Licensing: there isn't a register to check

Carpentry in Malta is not a licensed trade. There is no equivalent of a trade register you can look someone up on, and no card scheme to demand at the door. That places the entire burden of verification on references, documented past work, third-party verification schemes, and a written quotation that itemises material, hardware and site hours rather than giving one number. It also means the hourly rates above — €25–45/hr for a carpenter, €35–50/hr ex VAT for handyman assembly work — are market rates, not regulated ones, and they will vary with demand.

One last practical point on VAT. Rozie.app states its €35–50/hr is excluding VAT. MelaLocal's €25–45/hr and €800–€2,000 carry no such statement. Two quotes that look €200 apart may not be, so get the VAT position in writing before you compare them.