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The most convenient, perhaps, a device for storing things is a 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 set you have just chosen is combined, and not run from room to room – take it, try it on, see it. Moreover, you can make a dressing room in a very small area: the minimum is 1,5-2 square meters. Even in a small apartment, it is possible to fence off such a space. Moreover, it was noticed that it is more convenient to use them if the dressing room is assembled with your own hands. It’s simple: no one knows your habits better than you and will not be able to arrange things in the right order. So, we proceed to the independent creation of a dressing room.
Dressing room sizes
Our realities are such that most people live in small apartments, where every centimeter counts. Therefore, questions of size often play a decisive role. The smallest dressing room can have an area of 1,2 – 1,5 square meters. meters. This is a rectangle with sides of 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 and storage systems can be placed will be greater.
A rectangular mini-wardrobe room with one-sided placement of things should have a width of at least 1,2 m, with a two-sided one – at least 1,5 m. The depth should be such that it is possible to “enter” there. This is the main difference between wardrobes and sliding wardrobes, and also 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 can mask. Therefore, even when planning, find a way to make ventilation in the dressing room.
The principle of its device 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 inlet openings located just above the floor level. They are covered with decorative bars. 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. The air exchange organized in this way effectively maintains the normal state of things.
When choosing a fan, special attention should be paid to the noise level. Since walk-in closets are often made in or close to bedrooms, noise should be kept to a minimum. The fan can be controlled by automation or turned on / off by conventional or pass-through switches.
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 items fit together. In this case, a 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.
You can use lamps of any type, but it makes sense to make them turn on from motion sensors. They opened the doors – the lamps lit up, there was no movement, they turned off. There is another 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” that cannot be used normally. Here in such a place you can make a dressing room.
Another popular option is a pantry (see the article “How to make a dressing room from a pantry”). In this case, everything is generally simple. You remove everything superfluous, change the doors and install the appropriate content: racks, racks, baskets, shelves.
If there is no pantry in the apartment, they fence off part of the room – 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 can’t put anything there except for a small corner shelf: everything will interfere. Approximately the same option – two windows or a window and doors.
If the area turns out to be too small, it is possible to increase it a little, making the wall not even, but with the middle extended a little. The area of uXNUMXbuXNUMXbthe room will not decrease much from this, but much more things can fit.
They are also made on the loggia – by making part of the glazing opaque or by building a wall. Only here you can’t do without warming – it’s unpleasant to put on cold things in winter.
The second option is suitable for wide loggias. In them, shelving can be placed along a long wall.
In the corridor or hallway, a corner or “appendicitis” is also blocked out, if the layout allows. Here everyone can decide only on the spot: there is a place for this or not.
Most of all, a dressing room is appropriate in the bedroom. It’s just the best 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, a partition is needed 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 to three days for assembly and finishing.
If you make a partition from GKL or GWP in accordance with all the rules, you will need double cladding, and these are “eaten” centimeters, or even meters of area. Therefore, most often they are sheathed only on the outside, but with two sheets with overlapping seams. When assembling the frame, do not forget to make reinforced racks for fastening the door. With a single cladding, bare 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 weight.
The partition can also be made from laminated chipboard or OSB, MDF boards. This is an option for those who do not like to mess with putty. But you need to choose a lamination that will fit into the interior without any problems.
The interior design of a one-room apartment is described here.
Doors for dressing room
What is good about a do-it-yourself dressing room is that you can put any doors: sliding, like “coupe”, accordion, ordinary hinged, hinged on rollers. You can even do without 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 budget option is thick curtains or something like a Japanese curtain.
If the front wall is large, part of it can be stationary, part – 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.
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, or you can make them bright and conspicuous.
It is written about the redevelopment of Khrushchev houses 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 area, and even interfere with the movement of air. Another disadvantage: it is problematic to remake something.
Recently, the general trend is the installation of lightweight metal storage systems. They are modular, 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.
Racks can have notches along the entire length, which makes it possible to install any element at any height. These are the most mobile systems that can be modified quite easily – simply by moving them from one row of notches-hooks to another, arbitrarily changing the height of the shelves and baskets, and other elements.
There are racks of rectangular section, with grooves cut on both sides. In these grooves, the necessary components are attached to the clamps.
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 placed one on top of the other or on shelves.
All these systems are sold: racks and a list of various components. But they are produced mainly in European countries, because the price “bites”. An economy version of wardrobe equipment can be made independently from a round chrome-plated furniture pipe and various fasteners for it. It turns out that this furniture is not as mobile as we would like, but it costs significantly less.
On the shelves you can place plastic containers (boxes) with lids for storing shoes and other things. It is better if the containers are transparent – it will be easier to search for things.
Appliances for placing clothes
In addition to standard and not very drawers, shelves, there are interesting special options. For example, skirts or trousers. Special guides on which the cross bars are fixed, sometimes there are clips on them. They allow you to hang skirts / trousers evenly and not be afraid that they will fall. It is convenient if such a hanger extends, allowing you to inspect all the contents.
This device can be replaced by a simpler, but much cheaper one – a hanger with crossbars located one under the other. This is not so convenient, but it allows you to organize your clothes just as well.
There is a retractable design for ties, only it, as a rule, is oriented differently and extends in length, although not everyone likes such a system, but rather folded into drawer cells.
There are several ways to place hangers. The simplest is pipes, more economical (in terms of space use, but not in terms of money) is tie-like retractable brackets.
Another device is a pantograph for clothes. This is also a pipe, but capable of descending. A kind of lift for clothes. Such a device allows you to use the space up to the ceiling, and not to the detriment of your comfort. It can be attached both to the side walls (the more common option) and to the wall. A rod-handle is attached in the middle of the pipe, pulling which 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.
Shoe storage systems
Often there are problems with storing shoes: some of them have dozens of pairs, so it’s just right for them to arrange separate dressing rooms. But among the standard sets of equipment there are several interesting ones for storing shoes.
Let’s start with the retractable system. She is in IKEA. Pins with modules for shoes, mounted on a movable frame. Convenient, compact.
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.
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 photo gallery.
There are some very inexpensive options. For example, seasonal, the one that is currently in use, can be stored on a grid with rearranged 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 under any type of block, make more or less distance.
Hanging such a grid is not a problem – even on a wall, even on the side surface of a cabinet or door. Hooks and shelves simply cling to the crossbars. This option is ideal when there is a shortage of money and space. If you like the idea but need something more presentable, make or find a perforated metal frame shield. In it, too, hooks are inserted with a bang.
In general, when arranging a dressing room and on a limited budget, it is worth looking for storage systems not in furniture stores – online or offline. It is better to look at sites that sell commercial equipment. There are many interesting devices that save space: stores also try to display the maximum amount of goods on the minimum area. For example, such here racks for footwear.
If you attach wheels to the first, you get an excellent retractable system. The price of such equipment is much less than similar equipment, but which is sold in furniture stores.
Making a wardrobe project
As you can see, there are a lot of ideas for equipment and storage systems. But so that it does not turn out that the purchased excellent thing simply does not become part of your wardrobe, you need to draw a plan on which you indicate all the dimensions and dimensions. It is drawn to scale, then on it you mark out those parts that must be mandatory. They are drawn in the same scale. If everything “fits in”, 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 devices and systems you like (mounting dimensions), cut them out to scale from cardboard or thick paper and try to combine everything. If it works, great, you can buy it. No, look for other options. As a result of your efforts, you should get something like the layout shown in the photo below.
To make it convenient to use the equipment and get things, it is necessary to maintain the following distances:
- minimum distance from shelf to shelf:
- when storing things – 30 cm;
- when storing shoes (without studs) – 20 cm;
- shirts, jackets, jackets – 120 cm;
- trousers:
- folded in half – 100 cm;
- in length – 140 cm;
- compartment for outerwear (coats, raincoats) – 160-180 cm;
- under dresses – 150-180 cm.
At the very top, we allocate space for clothes of a different 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, here are a few diagrams with dimensions so that you can equip your dressing room with your own hands (at least partially).