The issue of storage is becoming more and more important. A dressing room is a great idea for solving this problem. Garages and balconies are becoming a thing of the past as places for storing necessary and unnecessary belongings (according to the principle - it’s not necessary, but it’s a pity to throw it away, but suddenly it will be needed someday). Now people do not value things that are out of use so much - they are simply thrown away. But ensuring the proper preservation of the necessary wardrobe items (seasonal collections of shoes and clothes) is a conscious choice that everyone adheres to.
What is a dressing room and why is it needed
Wardrobe room (clothes, restroom, wardrobe) - a room for storing things, shoes, clothes, and you can equip it in the following ways:
- arrangement of a built-in niche;
- allocation of a separate room (room, pantry, loggia);
- separation of a part of the square with the help of sliding doors.
The advantages of a separate room or a dedicated area for placing a wardrobe:
- Functionality - on an acceptable area, places for saving seasonal wardrobes, current collections of clothes and shoes, additional household items - an ironing board, iron, steamer are compactly concentrated.
- Saving space - no need for numerous wardrobes, wardrobes, lockers, occupying a significant area throughout the apartment.
- Spaciousness - the size and location of racks from floor to ceiling increase the storage area.
- Saving money - an optimally designed dressing room (the option is not taken into account when its filling is made of mahogany) is cheaper than wardrobes, bureaus and chests of drawers. In addition, if you want to update the design of the room, there is no need to change the overall furniture - a wardrobe, wardrobe.
- Saving time - a very necessary thing (if it does not lie in its place) is searched for in a limited area of \u200b\u200bspace, which significantly saves hours and saves nerves.
- High-quality safety of clothes with the necessary level of ventilation.
- Free access is provided to objects, but at the same time isolation from the rest of the living space is maintained, due to which things almost do not gather dust.
Type of dressing room design: methods and rules
How to plan a dressing room? If you are lucky - the owner of housing in a new building, then you can allocate a whole room for a wardrobe, and it is desirable to plan its location at the planning stage of the apartment.
But even in a lived-in apartment, you can take a rational approach and allocate a suitable place for storage (dressing room from the pantry) without encroaching on the living space of other residents.
Standard placement of dressing rooms - hallway or bedroom.
corner option
With this method of placement, a free corner in the room is allocated under the dressing room, and it is a rectangular or triangular zone.
The minimum size of a full-fledged wardrobe is three square meters.
You can fence off the zone with a plasterboard partition or sliding compartment doors. It is recommended to additionally strengthen the drywall wall so that it can withstand the weight of modules and storage systems with things. Stylishly decorated doors will become an additional decoration of the interior.
One of the advantages of this method is the masking of layout flaws.
The disadvantage is that the modest size of the area will make it difficult to place a mirror, ottoman, sports equipment.
Linear way
The most common solution is to insulate a blank wall without windows or doors. The depth of the dressing room is determined individually, but the minimum length of its short side should be 80 cm (the size of the closet plus the space for free passage are included in the calculations).If the dressing room turns out to be narrow, place the shelves on one side.
Parallel arrangement
An option when two wardrobes opposite each other are located in a wide and long corridor. Advantage: the dressing room in the hallway will hide the counters, the alarm panel.
U-shaped option
Such placement would be a suitable idea for a rectangular and long room. With this decision, you should place the wardrobe on one side of the room, and the bed on the other.
A small dressing room will be used to the maximum with a U-shaped arrangement of cabinets, and in the corners it would be appropriate to place round hangers for jewelry or accessories.
Access to the dressing room can be arranged with curtains, sliding doors.
A full wardrobe room from the pantry
A dressing room from a pantry is an option when the area of \u200b\u200bthe room allows you to equip a room for storing things and clothes in it, or it is quite possible to move one of the partitions for these purposes.
Advantage - no special allocation of the zone in other rooms is required.
The disadvantage is the imposed option for the location of storage places, the lack of sufficient ventilation.
Zoning the wardrobe room
Perhaps this is the most crucial moment when organizing a place to store things. How to make a dressing room out of a pantry or place a wardrobe in a corridor can be suggested by the designer, since standard zoning and filling options should be flexibly combined with the individual requests of the owners. There are general guidelines for organizing storage areas.
The owner of the dressing room forms the zonal space on his own, focusing on the standard and taking into account his requirements for the functionality of the room (for example, a special place for storing sports equipment can be allocated in the room).
The traditional approach to placing items in levels:
- Bottom - shoes.
- Medium - casual and festive clothes (folded or hanging), appropriate for the current season.
- Upper - off-season items and wardrobe items.
Filling: rules and tips
How to arrange a dressing room? It is possible to equip the dressing room with fixed shelves with drawers or modular systems. Be sure to consider a number of additional items for storage (pants, ties, shoe racks).
- The modular construction system includes multifunctional aluminum profile systems and mesh baskets, equipped with a wide range of accessories. Elements of the system can stand on the floor, be attached to a wall, or be supported by spacers. The main idea is that the system configuration is easily changed, the necessary elements are added or the unnecessary ones are removed.
- Stationary furniture - storage systems, most often made of natural wood. The main advantages are attractive appearance and environmental friendliness.
The main requirement for the design of the dressing room: the room should not look cluttered, but free and spacious.
Organization of the internal space: recommendations and ideas
Rational placement of storage places will allow all family members to use the dressing room, put things in order in the apartment. When organizing it, use the following tips and recommendations:
- The dressing room from the pantry should be well ventilated.
- Doors must provide air exchange (have slots at the bottom and top with a width of 2 cm or a series of holes).
- Placing separate sections of silica gel sachets for moisture absorption will prevent musty, stale odors.
- It is necessary to organize sufficient lighting of the room and mirrors, lighting of deep drawers, high shelves.
- It is not recommended to use the room for placing a wardrobe for other purposes (for example, for dumping unnecessary things, buckets, mops).
- Be sure to have mirrors and free space for changing clothes.
- It is advisable to equip the dressing room in the hallway with a "warm floor" system - so that shoes dry faster.
- If the dressing room provides for the storage of men's and women's things, you can use the division of shelves, rods for clothes (it is better to immediately divide the room into two parts).
- Clothing should be easily accessible and visible.
- Shelves for storage are made out with fences (so that clothes do not fall out).
- To access the upper shelves, you will need a stepladder or a folding ladder.
- A small dressing room will be visually enlarged with mirrored doors (there will be no need for a separate mirror). In addition, it should be framed in light colors.
The dressing room allows you to optimize any space with a variety of design and layout options.
