In modern times, a dressing room is not a luxury item, more and more such a room is found in houses and even small apartments, for which a place is allocated in the form of a small niche in the hallway to a separate room. Choosing a dressing room is not an easy task, but it is much more important to make its filling functional and accessible, which we will talk about in this article.
The filling of the dressing room is a system of hinged shelves, drawers, rods, hangers and pull-out structures that allow you to distribute things and create order in the house. In addition to clothes, household items can be stored in the dressing room, so the filling of an additional room should be thought out to the smallest detail. Now there are many designers and firms offering their services to create a plan for your dressing room, but it is easy to do it yourself, and the saved money can be spent on purchasing shelves and hangers, drawers with high-quality mechanisms.
Features and benefits of a dressing room:
Order in the house is a guarantee of your good mood and the appearance of free time for other activities
Filling the dressing room allows you to distribute things and provide them with proper storage, from which your dresses or trousers will not wrinkle (like on a chair), and there is a place for winter boots even in summer
The dressing room saves the family budget - it is much more profitable to purchase the filling for the dressing room once, rather than endlessly buying wardrobes and dressers, which, moreover, clutter up the space in the house
You can store not only clothes and shoes in the dressing room, you can hide household equipment there (for which they create an additional compartment in the room)
Features of the
To create an affordable and functional dressing room model, it is worth dividing it into some areas for storing certain items of clothing.
Open wall shelves can be the backbone of your dressing room as they are easy to store and allow you to see your clothes. The shelves are universal in that you can hang them both above - in an area inaccessible to you without a chair, for example, and at eye level and even below. So you can safely place suitcases, boxes with items of clothing or shoes for another season, or something not quite necessary "here and now" on the top shelves
Eye-level shelves are a great way to put your belongings on them; in addition to clothes on open shelves, you can easily place bags or other accessories, shoes. Choose shelves from 40 cm wide, but you shouldn't make them too wide either.
Drawers are predominantly located at the bottom of the dressing room filling. They can vary in width and depth, and can be used to store underwear, hosiery, ties and bow ties, jewelry or belts (such boxes have a soft backing)
Rods are used to store things on hangers, and in filling the dressing room it is better to choose from two types: higher and standard. Standard rods usually have a height of 100 cm and are suitable for storing skirts, trousers, sweaters, and long counterparts for coats, dresses and outerwear, their height is usually from 160 cm to two meters
A type of bar is a pantograph - this is the same bar, only with the possibility of adjusting its height, or descending.
The dressing room may have a small compartment for trouser hangers: they are retractable and small (about 60 cm in length).
Baskets and boxes in dressing room filling are used to store laundry, for example. They can be located on pull-out structures in the lower part of the room to save money - just put baskets or boxes on the shelves themselves, having previously agreed on their sizes
Shoe cabinets, or modules for storing shoes. It is very important to store shoes correctly, and with this you will be helped by special open shelves, made at a slight slope, closed shoe racks, modules with a place for a heel or made in the form of a shoe - neither of them is convenient to put on shoes
Separate hangers for belts, ties and other accessories are equipped with special holes; you can store such small things in drawers, on the doors of the room
A mirror in a dressing room is an especially important thing if the dimensions of the room allow you to place this piece of furniture inside. An alternative to the mirror in the dressing room will be its placement on the doors
Lighting is one of the important components of its content, especially if the room is spacious and roomy. Proper lighting will help you not only quickly navigate the storage room, but also put yourself "in order" and look neat and well-groomed
A comfortable armchair or a small pouf is usually placed in spacious dressing rooms - this gives the room functionality (trying on shoes or putting on clothes) and a special charm
To relieve the apartment a little, compartments are often made in dressing rooms for household equipment - an ironing board, an iron, a mop and a vacuum cleaner. By the way, the ironing board can be fixed on the wall in such a way that it is easy to use it, simply by "unfastening" it from the wall and then fasten it again with one movement of the hand.
Recommendations
For those who are faced with the creation and filling of a dressing room for the first time, it may sometimes seem difficult to reasonably and profitably zone its space. The advice of experts will help in solving such a problem.
In spacious apartments and houses, a separate room is allocated for the dressing room: usually this is the smallest and darkest room, the one that would be intended for a pantry. In small apartments, a niche is given for a dressing room: in the corridor or in the bedroom, which would be as functional and convenient as possible for guests to use.
If the dressing room is spacious or located in a dark part of the room, you should take care of its lighting. For this kind of room, point lighting is chosen, which allows you to advantageously arrange several lighting devices, or ordinary chandeliers: take care of your safety when trying on clothes so that you do not touch the object of lighting when you wave your hand.
It is simple to create filling the dressing room with your own hands: in a niche it is worth organizing hanging shelves and several rods for clothes, which does not require special skills of a builder. There are also ready-made wardrobe systems that are sold in furniture stores and can significantly save time on thinking about filling your wardrobe.
Let's talk about the size of the fillers: the height of an ordinary bar for clothes does not exceed a meter; for especially tall or long structures, it is worthwhile to provide a support from below; the depth of open shelves traditionally does not exceed a meter, the width is not less than 40 cm and not more than 90. Drawers should not be made more than 90 cm in width, otherwise the structure may collapse due to the weight of things.
To feel comfortable in the dressing room, make spacious aisles between shelves with a width of 60 cm; if there are retractable structures, add another half meter to this width
Small dressing room
It is easy to create such an important element of your interior by selecting only a small part of the room for it: a bedroom or a corridor
Niche
Some apartment layouts have a small niche (usually in the hallway) that would be the perfect place for your "storage". It can be fenced off thanks to doors (folding, sliding), curtains and even a screen.
Bedroom
Give your future dressing room one of the walls (on which there is no window, of course). You can choose a place right behind the bed or against the opposite, side wall, it is important that this part can be easily fenced off with the same doors or curtains.
Corners
You can place a dressing room in the most non-functional space of an apartment or house - in its corners or beveled spaces.
And finally:
The inner space of the dressing room is spacious and even small should be functional: drawers should be easy to open, and hangers - in order to easily remove a thing from there
Speaking of drawers, exclude, if possible, the presence of handles for opening them and replace them with small notches in the structure itself: this will protect against injury during careless or sudden movement
