How to equip a dressing room? Tips to help you

Thinking of setting up a separate room for new things? Then it seems you time to think about creating a comfortable and thoughtful dressing room. We’ll tell you how to equip a functional wardrobe room even in a small apartment and find a place for all things without creating a mess.

Why do you need a dressing room?

Surely in any programs you saw huge celebrity houses, which necessarily have a separate spacious dressing room. Just imagine: all things will be neatly stored in one place, and not scattered around the apartment and in different cabinets.

But you think that such a room can be equipped only in large apartments and houses? And that's not true! You can create a dressing room even in a small apartment. No wonder that in Soviet times in almost every Khrushchev there was a pantry, an analogue of a modern dressing room.

Here are a few reasons why this is convenient:

• You can get rid of huge closets with things, shelves and hooks, which will significantly expand the room and make the space more tidy and free;
• you will spend less time searching for things, because they will all be in one place and laid out rationally;
• the wardrobe, unlike other rooms, you can maximize the force of wardrobes, shelves, hangers, use every inch of space to good use;
• if everything in your dressing room is neatly hung and folded, then things will retain their original appearance longer.

The advantages are undeniable, but how to equip a dressing room in a small apartment? There are several options for resolving this issue.

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Where can I create a dressing room?

How to make a neat dressing room in your home and most importantly where? Here are some of the most popular options:

• A pantry is simply an ideal option that will require a minimum of funds to create a wardrobe. Remove all trash, rearrange pickles, hang shelves and voila! A neat functional wardrobe is ready;
• Separate part of the room from any room. This will be especially advantageous if you have a long room. Having separated a part from it, you can not only create a dressing room, but also make the room more convenient in geometric shape;

• If you have a kind of dead ends in the house, then they can be separated by a partition or a sliding door and equip the dressing room there;
• Or maybe you have a big and deep niche in the room? Than this is not ideal for the dressing room;
• If you have a spacious warm loggia at home, then it can also be used as a dressing room;
• If you have a large bathroom and toilet, you can combine them, and arrange part of the room for storage.

As you can see there can be many options, show only your imagination, but do not forget about rational rationalism.

What must be in a good dressing room?

The purpose of each dressing room is to place the largest number of things in a small space, but so that everything is neat. In order to achieve this goal, you must purchase:

• several pipes on which it will be possible to hang wardrobe items on hangers;
• small cabinets or cabinets for socks, tights, underpants and other small things;
• special lattice for storage of trousers;
• shelves or cells for shoes;

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• hooks on which you can hang, for example, outerwear;
• and many, many more shelves to fit all the items of your wardrobe and they did not have to be stored in the rooms;
• and so that you can find things at any time of the day or night, take care of a sufficient number of light sources, and they can be placed not only on the ceiling, but also above the shelves themselves;
• if your dressing room turned out to be quite spacious, then you can use it not only for storage, but also for trying on things, so take care of having a good floor mirror in it.

As you can see, organizing the internal content is not so difficult, but how to deal with the space itself? How to make it fit all the shelves and it does not look bulky?

Wardrobe layout options

Depending on what size your dressing room is and what shape it is, you can place objects in its space in various ways. The following layout options are available:

• the linear placement of things in the dressing room suggests that all things will be located only on one wall of the room, this is a peculiar version of a large closet and an excellent design for a room in a small apartment;
• corner wardrobe is obtained as a result of separation from the room of any corner;

• The L-shaped is very similar to the linear one, but another short wall is used here, perpendicular to the main one;
• if you have more space at your disposal, the linear layout can be transformed into two-sided, where shelves, cabinets and hangers are placed parallel to each other;
• Another option for arranging a spacious dressing room is a layout in the shape of the letter "P".

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How can you isolate the wardrobe space from other rooms?

If your apartment did not initially have a pantry with walls already built, then it will be difficult to build a new partition on your own. But it is not necessary to create walls to create a wardrobe, you can use more budgetary and simpler ways:

• drywall - an inexpensive material that is not difficult to install and easy to break, if you understand that you do not need a separate room for the dressing room;
• plywood boards imitating wood, if they fit the interior of your home;
• a glass partition is a beautiful and stylish solution, but very fragile, with such walls you need to be extremely careful;
• sliding doors, as in sliding wardrobes, are ideal for linear layout of the wardrobe;
• curtains, the ideal budget and simple option to partition.

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As you can see, there are a lot of options for creating a separate dressing room, even in small apartments it is possible to equip a small room for clothes. Believe me, you will be surprised how convenient and practical it is to have a dressing room in your home.