10 design hacks for a small dressing room

one Remember: the dressing room can be placed even in an unexpected place.

If you think your home doesn’t have room for even the smallest walk-in closet, try looking at the bigger picture.

Indeed, in fact, the dressing room can be placed literally anywhere: on the balcony, in the hallway, in the bedroom, under the stairs, even in a small niche in the wall or just in an “uncomfortable” corner of your apartment.

Just look: here the owners have placed a dressing room under the loft bed. An elegant compact solution, isn’t it?

2 Combine shelves, drawers and rails

Pay close attention to the filling of the dressing room. When choosing it, it is best to proceed from the characteristics of your wardrobe, soberly assessing its size and composition.

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Most often, a combination of shelves, drawers and rods can be the ideal filling solution.

3 Make use of the space on the door

The reverse side of the door is an additional place to place small things: belts, hats, jewelry and other accessories. Hanging mini-baskets, roof rails or special organizers will help you with this.

Please note: do not place any heavy things on the door in order to avoid excessive load on the door leaf.

four «Neighborhood» can also be useful

If your dressing room is so small that not all of your things and accessories fit in it, try to use the «surrounding area» as well. Look: in these examples, the hat collections not only found their place on the wall at the entrance to the dressing room, but also served as a kind of decorative element.

5 Don’t forget the mirror

In the immediate vicinity of the dressing room there should be a mirror that reflects you and your outfit in full growth.

If there was no place for it in the dressing room itself, you can place it on the door (on the outside or inside). Or, say, on the wall or on the floor near the entrance.

6 Position the dressing table

If suddenly a free place is put on in your small dressing room, you can place a dressing table there (providing, of course, good quality lighting in this area). Such a decision will be convenient and logical.

Well, if you can only dream of free space in the dressing room, try to find a place for the dressing table not too far from the entrance to this mini-room.

7 Use shelf dividers

Special dividers will help organize orderly storage on the shelves. There are options made of transparent plastic, which are minimally conspicuous and at the same time greatly facilitate the maintenance of order in the dressing room.

eight Arrange display cabinets

Particularly expensive and beautiful bags and shoes can become a real decoration of your small dressing room. Arrange display cabinets and place your “wealth” there. Bonus: improved dust protection (compared to open shelves).

9 Complete storage with boxes and containers

All sorts of organizers, containers and boxes are your assistants in the neat placement of things in the dressing room.

To avoid confusion, choose transparent models, options with transparent «windows», or tag boxes with photos and inscriptions that reflect the contents.

ten Set up an armchair or pouffe

Try to provide in your mini dressing room a small chair, a pouffe, or at least a small folding chair. This will be especially necessary if not only clothes, but also shoes are stored in the dressing room. If there is absolutely not enough space even for a miniature model, take advantage of the opportunities of the adjacent territory.

By the way, some models of poufs provide additional storage space. In addition, there are benches that also offer shelves for placing shoes.

Don’t want to spend? Do-it-yourself ottoman with a storage compartment! Video instruction is attached.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2oFn_pagaI