How to make a dressing room: layout and content

Probably the most convenient storage device is the dressing room. After all, it's really great when all the details of the wardrobe are in one place and you can immediately assess how well the newly selected set is combined, and not run from room to room - take, try on, look. Moreover, you can make a dressing room in a very small area: the minimum is 1.5-2 square meters. Even in a small-sized apartment it is possible to shield such a space. Moreover, it has been noticed that it is more convenient to use them if you have assembled a dressing room with your own hands. It's simple: no one knows your habits better than you and can not arrange things in the right order. So, let's start creating a dressing room ourselves.

Dressing room sizes

Our reality is that most people live in small apartments, where every centimeter counts. Therefore, size issues often play a decisive role. The smallest dressing room can have an area of ​​1.2 - 1.5 square meters. meters. It is a rectangle with sides 1.5 * 1 meter or so. Also, a small dressing room can be corner - this option is even more spacious than a rectangular one of the same area: with an equal area, the length of the sides along which shelves can be placed and storage systems will be greater.

The smallest dressing rooms: 1.5 by 2.5 m and 2 by 2 m

Rectangular mini-dressing room with one-sided placement of things should have a width of at least 1.2 m, with two-sided - at least 1.5 m. The depth should be such that it was possible to "enter" there. In this, wardrobes, in general, differ from sliding wardrobes, and also in the ability to install any doors.

Ventilation and lighting

Even in mini-dressing rooms, and even more so in large ones, ventilation is necessary: ​​in a closed room, a musty smell quickly appears, which no perfume will mask. Therefore, even while planning, find a way to ventilate the dressing room.

The principle of its construction is no different: in the upper part of any of the walls, preferably further from the door, an exhaust hole is made, where the fan is inserted. The inflow is provided either in the gap under the doors or in special inlets located just above the floor level. They are covered with decorative grilles. The outlet of the ventilation duct should be in the general ventilation system, you can take it out into the street or under the roof of a private house with plastic boxes. Air exchange organized in this way effectively maintains the normal state of things.

The principles of organizing the ventilation of the dressing room through the bathroom

When choosing a fan, pay special attention to the noise level. Since dressing rooms are often made in or close to bedrooms, noise should be kept to a minimum. It can be controlled by means of automation or switched on / off by conventional or pass-through switches.

The lighting should be bright. Firstly, it is necessary to quickly find things, and secondly, dressing rooms are often used as fitting rooms in order to immediately see how the selected things are combined. In this case, the mirror is usually placed on the door or mirrored doors are made. In this case, the light should be directed not only to the shelves and storage systems, but also to the fitting area.

One of the lighting options

You can use any type of lamp, but it makes sense to make them turn on from motion sensors. They opened the doors - the lamps were lit, there was no movement, they turned off.There is also an option for swing doors, there are lamps with buttons that light up when the door is opened and turn off when they are closed.

Where to do

Even in small apartments there are “appendicitis” which cannot be used normally. It is in such a place that you can make a dressing room.

Another popular option is a pantry. In this case, everything is generally simple. You remove all unnecessary things, change the doors and install the appropriate filling: racks, racks, baskets, shelves.

Wardrobe room from the closet

If there is nothing like this in the apartment, part of the room is fenced off - the end or corner - you need to look at the layout. The corner dressing room is good because it allows you to use the most difficult areas to equip, namely the corners. Especially if there are closely spaced doors in two adjacent walls. This zone is considered "dead": you cannot put anything there except for a small corner shelf: everything will interfere. Roughly the same option - two windows or a window and doors.

Corner dressing room

If the area turns out to be too small, it is possible to increase it a little by making the wall not even, but with the middle extended slightly. The area of ​​the room will not greatly decrease from this, but things can fit much more.

A way to slightly increase the area

They also make them on the loggia - by making part of the glazing opaque or by building a wall. Only here you can't do without insulation - it's unpleasant to put on cold things in winter.

Dressing room at the end of the balcony or loggia

The second option is suitable for wide loggias. In them, shelving can be placed along a long wall.

Balcony use case

In the corridor or hallway, a corner or "appendicitis" is also fenced off, if the layout allows. Here everyone can decide only in place: is there a place for this or not.

Most of all, the dressing room is appropriate in the bedroom. It's just an optimal place to store things: in the sense that it's more convenient to dress here. Therefore, for these purposes, part of the room is fenced off. In this case, you need the partition and most often it is made of drywall. This technology has long been known and worked out to the smallest detail. It won't take much time even in the absence of experience: a maximum of two or three days for assembly and finishing.

If you make a partition from gypsum plasterboard or GVP according to all the rules, you will need double cladding, and this is "eaten" centimeters, or even meters of area. Therefore, most often they are sheathed only from the outside, but with two sheets with overlapping seams. When assembling the frame, do not forget to make reinforced stands for fastening the door. With single casing, naked profiles remain inside, but it is convenient to hang shelves-baskets for things on them. If you plan to do so, then take them with a thick wall: so that they normally hold the weight.

Plasterboard partition for dressing room

The partition can be made from laminated chipboard or OSB, plates MDF... This is an option for those who don't like messing around with putty. But you need to choose such a lamination that will fit into the interior without any problems.

Development the interior of a one-room apartment is described here.

Wardrobe doors

What is good about the do-it-yourself dressing room is that you can put any doors: sliding, such as "coupe", accordion, ordinary swing, hinged on rollers. You can even completely dispense with them. This option is called a wardrobe-rack, but then everything will have to be kept in perfect order: everything is in plain sight. The most budgetary option is blackout curtains or something like Japanese curtains.

Installation options for sliding sliding doors

If the front wall turns out to be large, part of it can be stationary, part of it can be occupied by doors. In this case, stationary walls can also be used somehow. If desired, the doors can be made in full width, or consisting of fragments.

Option of a dressing room in the attic: a side part with a low ceiling is occupied under it. Full-width doors - easier to get to things

The design can be anything, as long as it fits into the look of the room. If desired, they can be made to match the walls so that it is not visible, but you can - bright and conspicuous.

ABOUT redevelopment of Khrushchev is written here (diagrams and drawings).

Arrangement: filling and storage systems

If the area is limited, it makes no sense to make furniture made of wood, MDF or chipboard in the dressing room. They take away precious centimeters of the area, and even interfere with the movement of air. Another drawback: redoing something is problematic.

"Standard" type furniture takes up too much space

Recently, the general trend is the installation of lightweight metal storage systems. They are modular and assembled on special racks. Racks can be attached in two ways - to walls or to the ceiling and floor: different manufacturers make different systems. And already on these racks they hang everything that is necessary.

The posts can have notches along their entire length, which makes it possible to install any element at any height. These are the most mobile systems that can be easily and easily modified - simply by hanging from one row of notches-hooks to another, arbitrarily changing the height of the shelves and baskets and other elements.

Convenient modular system

There are rectangular posts with grooves cut on both sides. In these grooves, the necessary accessories are attached to the clips.

Different type of stands and different mounting system

Please note that there are different shelves and drawers - made of wood or wood materials, metal - chrome-plated or painted. They can be retractable, they can be put one on top of another or on shelves.

All of these systems are sold: racks and a list of different accessories. But they are produced mainly in European countries, because the price "bites". An economical version of equipment for a dressing room can be made independently from a round chrome furniture pipe and various fasteners to it. It turns out this furniture is not as mobile as we would like, but it costs significantly less.

Equipment for a wardrobe from a round furniture pipe

Appliances for placing clothes

In addition to standard and not-so-standard drawers-shelves, there are interesting special options. For example - skirt or trouser. Special guides on which the cross bars are fixed, sometimes there are clips on them. They allow you to hang your skirts / trousers straight and not be afraid that they will fall. It is convenient if such a hanger slides out, allowing you to inspect all the contents.

One of the options for filling the dressing room is a bracket for skirts or trousers

This device can be replaced by a simpler, but much cheaper one - a hanger with crossbars located one under the other. It is not so convenient, but it allows you to organize your clothes just as well.

Budget hangers for trousers and skirts

There is a retractable design for ties, only it, as a rule, is oriented in a different way and extends in length, although not everyone likes this system, but rather folded into the drawer cells to taste.

Devices for ties

There are several ways to place the hangers. The simplest is pipes, more economical (in terms of space use, but not in terms of money) - tie-like retractable brackets.

Retractable brackets for clothes hangers

Another device is a garment pantograph. It is also a pipe, but it can go down. A kind of lift for clothes. Such a device allows you to use the space up to the ceiling, and without compromising your comfort. It can be attached both to the side walls (more common option) and to the wall. A handle bar is attached in the middle of the pipe, by pulling it you lower it to a horizontal position. The carrying capacity of such devices is usually small (up to 18 kilograms), therefore they are used for light - in terms of weight - clothing.

Furniture pantograph - for light (by weight) clothing

Shoe storage systems

Often there are problems with storing shoes: for some, there are dozens of pairs of them, so it's time for them to arrange separate dressing rooms. But among the standard sets of equipment, there are some interesting ones for storing shoes.

Let's start with the retractable system. It is in IKEA. Pins with shoe modules mounted on a movable frame. Convenient, compact.

Retractable shoe system

There are mini-chests of drawers that do not take up almost space, but are hung on the walls, there are hanging organizers that are easy to place on a horizontal pipe.

Storage systems for shoes in the dressing room

These are mini dressers on the wall

In general, there are many interesting ideas for shoes that allow you to place them compactly and at the same time conveniently. Some are in the fog gallery.

There are very inexpensive options. For example, the seasonal one that is currently in use can be stored on a mesh with reversible hooks or wire shelves. You've probably seen similar ones in stores. This is a mesh or perforated panel on which hooks / shelves are hung. Convenient: you can move it under any type of shoe, make more or less distance.

Economy shoe storage option - mesh with hooks and shelves

Hanging such a net is not a problem - even on the wall, even on the side of a cabinet or door. Hooks and shelves simply cling to the bars. This option is ideal when you are short of money and space. If you like the idea but need something more presentable, make or find a perforated metal shield on the frame. Hooks are also inserted into it with a bang.

Modification - hook shield

In general, when arranging a dressing room and a limited budget, it is worth looking for storage systems not in furniture stores - on-line or off-line. Better take a look at sites that sell shop equipment. There are many interesting gadgets that save space: shops also try to display the maximum amount of goods on the minimum area. For example, these are the shoe racks.

Stands for shoes

If you attach wheels to the first, you get an excellent pull-out system. The price for such equipment is much less than for similar equipment, but which is sold in furniture.

Making a dressing room project

There are a lot of ideas for equipment and storage systems, as you can see. But so that it does not turn out that the purchased excellent thing simply does not become in your wardrobe, you need to draw a plan on which you indicate all the dimensions and sizes. It is drawn to scale, then mark on it those parts that must be required. They are drawn on the same scale. If everything "fits", armed with dimensions (you have them, or you can measure in the figure and, using the scale, calculate the real values), you can go to the store to choose systems.

There is another approach. Find out the dimensions of the fixtures and systems you like (mounting dimensions), cut them out to scale from cardboard or thick paper and try to combine everything. If you succeed - great, you can buy. No - look for other options. As a result of your efforts, you should get approximately the same layout as in the photo.

An example of the organization of space in the dressing room (indicating the minimum sizes for different types of clothing)

To make it convenient to use the equipment and get things, you must maintain the following distances:

• minimum distance from shelf to shelf:
  • when storing things - 30 cm;
  • when storing shoes (without hairpins) - 20 cm;
• shirts, jackets, jackets - 120 cm;
• pants:
  • folded in half - 100 cm;
  • in length - 140 cm;
• compartment for outerwear - coat - 160-180 cm;
• under dresses - 150-180 cm.

At the very top, we set aside space for clothes of another season or rarely used things. Often there is a place for a vacuum cleaner below, and a built-in ironing board is made in one of the cabinets.

For those who like to work with their hands, there are several dimensional schemes so that you can equip the dressing room with your own hands (at least partially).

Shoe shelf drawing with dimensions

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