Ideas for organizing space in a compact dressing room.

Do you need one?

Small dressing rooms are comparable in functionality to good-quality wardrobes: which one should you choose? When answering this question, you should consider the ergonomics of the dressing room. It should be convenient for a person to move around inside, so the minimum width of such a space is 150 cm (~60 cm will be occupied by shelves, clothes on hangers). Accordingly, if you are choosing between a narrow dressing room and a closet, choose the latter.

One of the ideas for a small cozy dressing room is a deep closet, in English it is called a reach in closet system. It is usually located in a niche, is characterized by large capacity and ease of use.

If the width for movement is sufficient, you can arrange a full-fledged small dressing room.

Its advantages:

• Space saving. Oddly enough, to equip one large storage system for things in an apartment, less space is required than for several small ones.
• Time saving. If you organize all your clothes in one corner, your morning preparations will be faster.
• Energy saving. Compactly organized things are easier and faster to put away.

To make your dressing room as ergonomic and convenient as possible, follow the advice of designers:

1. Use all the height. In every home there are things that are taken out 1-2 times a year. Their place is under the ceiling.
2. Do not make extra shelves. The lower one, for example, is useless – put shoes or boxes directly on the floor.
3. Plan the filling in advance. To do this, you need to know exactly what and in what quantities you need to store.
4. Make a sliding door. Or a curtain. Or refuse it altogether in order to save space.
5. Order a custom project. Only custom furniture takes into account all the nuances of the room and allows you to use every valuable centimeter of space.

What dressing room layout will be better?

It is impossible to say for sure which design of a small dressing room will suit everyone. Depends on the area and dimensions of the allocated room, the number of things in storage.

A small dressing room can be organized in five ways – choose the most suitable for you.

Linear

Usually used in niches, externally resembles a sliding wardrobe or reach in closet system, separated from the room by curtains, sliding doors. In some cases, even a small stylish dressing room without doors looks good – for example, if it is located behind the bed and separated from the bedroom by a partition. Shelves along one wall are also often mounted in long, elongated spaces.

Corner

The L-shaped plan is suitable for both elongated and square spaces. The dressing room is considered more spacious, because two walls are occupied at once.

U-shaped

If for the first two a width of 150 cm is enough, then in this case the room should be at least 200-210 cm wide, at least 150 cm long. A multitude of cabinets complicates the selection of filling – after all, you need to think through so that nothing intersects.

Parallel

The arrangement of two rows opposite is possible only in wardrobes of at least 2 meters. It would be appropriate to decorate the far wall with a mirror or attach an ironing board.

Circular

Shelves, rods and drawers are installed along the entire perimeter, including the space above the door. Suitable for dressing rooms of at least 4 square meters (2*2).

Where is it better to place it?

The arrangement of a small dressing room begins with choosing a place. If the apartment already has an empty storage room, it is easiest to use it. The storage room is usually located in a convenient area, already separated by a door, and has lighting. In other cases, you will have to use the living space for a dressing room.

The most common option is to divide the bedroom into zones. The design of the room is initially planned taking into account the location of a small dressing room. It is placed behind the bed or at the entrance – depending on the layout of the room. The bedroom will become smaller, but you will be able to store all your clothes, shoes and other necessary items in a place hidden from prying eyes.

The advantage of a dressing room in the bedroom is an intimate setting in which you can calmly change clothes.

The second most popular example of the placement of dressing rooms is the hallway or corridor. Usually there is little furniture and enough space for placing wardrobes. In a spacious hallway of a square or close to square shape, a niche is separated with the help of partitions or sliding doors and shelves are placed in it. A narrow, elongated one will only suit a large closet.

How to organize the interior filling?

A small dressing room should be thought out to the smallest detail: you need to not only choose the right elements, but also correctly arrange them relative to each other. The drawers should open, and clothes on hangers should be easy to take off and put back on.

You should start with the rods: the free space under them depends on the things that are stored on the hangers. Dresses, long coats — 150-160 cm, shirts — 90-100 cm, trousers — 65-75 cm.

For convenience, the rods are placed one above the other, and a pantograph is used for the top one, allowing it to be lowered to a convenient level when you need to hang clothes or take them out, and raised back up when the process is complete.

A mandatory attribute of a wardrobe, even in a mini version, is drawers. It is convenient to store underwear and other clothes inside that do not require hanging.

There are never too many additional shelves: shoes, boxes with necessary things, accessories are placed on top.

When arranging storage up to the ceiling, be sure to think about how exactly you will take out and put back items from the three upper shelves. It would be logical to place a small stepladder here to make the task easier.

Don’t forget about the main element of a convenient use: light. You are lucky if there is a window in the dressing room. But more often, closed spaces are allocated for storage, so lighting is necessary here even during the daytime. High-quality lighting will be provided by several built-in spotlights or directional lamps on a track.

Useful ideas for convenient storage

Organizing a small dressing room is no different from organizing a large one. To make it convenient to use and to make the layout intuitive, think of compartments for each type of clothing and accessories: pants, shirts, underwear and socks, belts, bags, watches.

The lower shelves are reserved for shoes. Out-of-season items are conveniently folded into boxes and put away on the very top.

If your closet has more clothes that are stored on shelves, make more drawers and switch to a vertical storage system. Items are folded into compact rectangles and placed on their “ends” in rows.

This folding saves space and ensures order. You can be sure that one item will not pull several others along with it (as often happens when storing in stacks).

The last nuance is the logic of the layout. At eye and arm level, the most frequently used items are stored, while the upper shelves under the ceiling are reserved for seasonal or rarely needed items. At the very bottom, there are items that are not needed every day, but should remain accessible.

We hope that among the photos of small dressing rooms in the article, everyone will find the ideal option for themselves!