Most Distro customers end up comparing Aurelia and Bamboo first. They are not two finishes of the same box. Aurelia is the corner sliding system. Bamboo is the straight-run contemporary range with the widest everyday size and colour set. If you pick the wrong family, no amount of styling will make the doors sit on the wall you actually have.

Aurelia: when the room turns

Aurelia exists for L-shaped walls, chimney-breast returns and the awkward corner at the foot of a bed. It is sold as 4-door and 6-door configurations in black, white and cashmere. That is a smaller matrix than Bamboo on purpose. A corner wardrobe is a different geometry: two runs meet, the sliding tracks have to clear each other, and the interior has to remain reachable from both sides.

Choose Aurelia if the only way to get decent hanging is to use two walls. A straight 250cm Bamboo on one wall will not give you the same cubic storage as a corner that wraps. Choose it too if you want a more dressed, premium door — the cashmere option is the quieter of the three and reads as furniture rather than a white goods cabinet.

Do not choose Aurelia to “look fancier” on a single flat wall. You will pay for a corner system you cannot unfold, and you will lose the simple width choices that make Bamboo easy to specify. Measure the two legs of the L separately. If one leg is a stub less than a usable bay, talk to us before you order a 6-door.

Bamboo: when the wall is a straight run

Bamboo is the collection we send people to when they have a rectangular bedroom and a clear wall. Sizes run 150, 180, 203 and 250cm, with black, white, grey and oak. The door language is vertical and contemporary — it is the range that photographs as a modern sliding wardrobe without asking the room to be a hotel suite.

The 203cm width is the sleeper. Plenty of UK back rooms are a shade over two metres once you honour the door lining and the radiator. 180 can look mean; 250 will not go up the stairs. Bamboo 203 exists for that gap. Oak is the warm option if the rest of the room is pine or oak flooring; grey is the one that disappears against a north-facing wall.

Price on Bamboo follows the width. Changing from oak to white does not change the ticket. That matters when couples argue about finish at the kitchen table: pick the size from the tape measure first, then settle the colour without reopening the budget.

How they differ on the product page

Aurelia’s options are door count and colour. Bamboo’s options are centimetre width and colour. Both use the same Distro checkout path: delivery to the UK mainland in the usual 3–7 working days, optional assembly from £140, and the same 14-day returns rule on unused goods in original packaging.

Interiors are configured on the page rather than in a showroom drawing. If you need hanging on one side and shelves on the other, say so in the order notes or call Blackburn. Do not assume a corner Aurelia automatically copies a walk-in dressing room you saw on social media. It is a sliding corner wardrobe, not a plastered suite.

When to look at the other six instead

If you like Bamboo’s job but want a different door, stay in the linear family: Daisy for a clean white run, Linden for a quieter everyday panel, Maple for a darker bedroom, Olive for a softer minimal face, Vine for grain, Flavia when you want a black frame against a light door. Those collections do not replace Aurelia. They replace Bamboo when the wall is still straight and the taste is not slatted-contemporary.

If you are torn, send a photo of the two walls and the three width measurements to 01254 937543 or WhatsApp 07305 069117. The useful question is not “which name sounds nicer”. It is “does this room bend”. If it bends, start on Aurelia. If it does not, start on Bamboo, lock the width, then decide whether oak or white will still please you in two winters’ time.