Or, inside the wardrobe where it will be much smaller and less intrusive. Think old style meat safe pre refrigeration. You can line the inside with either thin tin sheet or probably a lot easier and cheaper, with narrow wire mesh.
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I reckon I would discreetly deploy some strategically placed mouse / rat poison.
Nooooo…especially not where they could perhaps stagger outside before succumbing and be eaten by a domestic pet, bird or similar.
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I agree with @JaneJones, Robert. We have an elderly mutt who will eat anything and everything - yesterday he sicked up a bit of J-cloth for heavens sake!
I’ll add a few ooo s to that. Quite apart from the danger to domestic pets and other, wild, animals the death that the mice suffer is neither instant nor painless.
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That’s what I use, have it at the eves of the roof and as many areas where they can get in. Wont be 100% effective until I re point the rear wall. Another on the to do list.
Could you do similar Sue? They sell expanded mesh at some Brico’s mainly aluminium but that would still help.
The snake used to patrol the rear wall so kept that clear. 
First thing is have you figured out how they are getting into the wardrobe? If there are no gaps or holes (they can chew through wood of course, but I would have thought that unlikely unless there was food in the space) then it could be even the gap left with the doors closed. Mice have very flexible skeletons and can squash their bodies through holes much smaller than you would imagine could be possible - think the size of a hole a pencil will make in paper.
Sealing up the inside as cosmetically well as you can (wire mesh easiest in all likelihood, but remembering the hole size must be small). For any larger gaps stainless steel pan scourers work quite well as filler. But you still need traps - we have found these work really well but of course you do need to check them every day at least: https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B09HXDHJG7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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I’ve used a similar kind of humane mouse trap, several, and, as I’ve posted elsewhere, I caught 130 field mice very easily, in my house last year and released them into a nearby field.
No more mice since. But still contending with rats!
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The only way to keep mice out of the wardrobe is to make it impregnable. If it can’t then more suitable storage elsewhere is needed.
Currently I keep bird food in the shower room and cat food in the toilet because they are the only small ‘storage’ areas I have with doors. I don’t want kitchen cupb’ds gnawed through by rats which they will do if they find a weakness anywhere.
Rats don’t like making a noise as I’ve seen on my trail cameras, so lining the bottom of your wardrobe with foil or something like that, as suggested by @Susannah, to deter mice is worth a try.
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I stopped using that type of ‘humane’ trap when one mouse was too quick for its own good, but not quick enough. It entered and immediately turned to escape but the door came down on its back, paralysing its hind quarters without killing it. That was something I had to do outside and the trap went straight in the bin.
Not sure if they are still on sale but the ones I use now involve 2 metal plates and a small battery. The bait is at the far end of the tunnel and when the front paws arrive on the 2nd plate, closing the circuit, it is electrocuted instantly
@Bonzocat I have a much larger one on the same principle for rats which is plugged into the mains. The one and only rat I have had here was similarly killed instantly.
I could send you both photos, when @ChrisMann 's Panasonic arrives. 
I had that same concern in the past, especially with heavy gauge galvanised live traps, but this latest model is pretty foolproof (for proof of that I am successfully using it). In fact my biggest concern had been that it would be too easy to escape being trapped but it has caught a dozen or so this year, including two together a week ago (shrews, so not big). I have used electronic ones (“Victor”) but my wife is insisting we try to catch them and let them go. This is all in our pantry, so I am afraid cohabitation is not an option for me.
I am not convinced that they are not predated within minutes of release (we take them at least a km away to release them) so it is moot how much more “humane” it is, but it keeps her conscience free.
R
back in UK… OH would take the (unharmed) captured mice… and release them a few miles away…
He reckoned that they got “back home” before he did…
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We did the same with squirrels in our loft. Took them to the other side of the M25 and let them loose in woodland. Still they got back home. 
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I would empty the cupboard and wipe peppermint oil all inside, apparently mice hate it. Seems to work.
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A Cunning Plan - but do gite guests like peppermint flavoured bed linen? 
Well I would rather have my linen smelling of fresh mint rather than mouse poo & urine 
I wondered why there were a couple of dishwasher tablets next to their box in the cupboard under the sink, which appeared a bit rough around the edges. Put them back in the box and forgot them. Then found mashed up tablets in the box and others scored at the edges. Found a biscuit tin with tight fitting lid and stored the dishwasher tablets in there, and next to the tin placed an electric rat zapper. Next day found dead shrew in the zapper, who’d have expected shrews to like dishwasher tablets?
Does anyone have a picture of a decent electric zapper ? (No need to show results.) Are tbey battery or mains ?
Who indeed! I wonder what’s in them that they like?
Q: Where should you send dead shrews?
A: Shrewsbury.
I’m here all week… 
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Shrew’d judge of humour
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