Designing Dressing Room Wardrobes on a Budget
A wardrobe is a collection of garments and accessories including clothing, shoes, ties, scarves and any other wardrobe necessities. A closet can have a wardrobe portion to help organize your shoes or suits and shirts. A properly designed wardrobe will enhance a dressing room and organize all items in one place. Wardrobes can be costly, so it is important to learn how to design one while staying on budget.
- In your bedroom, design an additional dressing room wardrobe on a budget. Wardrobe sliding doors that attach at the ceiling and roll from your closet area make a great inexpensive dressing room wardrobe. The new area can serve as both a dressing room and organizer for your clothes and accessories. This technique can also be used for a theatrical dressing room wardrobe, so you can dress and store costumes with ease.
- Hollywood wardrobes are fashion statement. If you want a bit of backstage glamour, try a few black boxes with hanger rods and a few boxes for shoes and accessories. Use white lettering to put the words "Stage Wardrobe,” or your name and stage name, "Dressing Room.” This creates an instant space saver and organizer with Hollywood glam on a budget.
- List your storage needs, realistic to the space constraints. Shoes, purses, small intimate items, blouses, skirts, jackets, pants, sports gear. Remember this is not your entire closet, but a few select items that you will use in the next week or two that keeps you easily organized. Most people have a wardrobe uniform that gets them through the week and the wardrobe will be designed to accommodate this.
- Measure all of your items, for example your shoes; three pairs of business shoes, one dress shoe, two casual, one gym shoe. You will need a seven-tier shoe stack. Continue this for all the items on your list, winter coat exchange with summer towels and beach gear for example. Everything in this wardrobe should be immediate wear, not storage. Next, employ the modular storage unit to finish your new design.
- Consider stores that specialize in container solutions, and make attractive wardrobes for your bedroom. Munji, the Japan storage specialty store has a container for everything, everything including a miniature bathroom for travel box. The prices are reasonable and all items are very durable. Ditto with The Container Store, every type of storage container you will ever need for your design completion.
- Define a representative furniture store like Pottery Barn or West End, to typify a higher end wardrobe or better finished storage areas, not as versatile but more attractive. Place the smaller storage units into these larger shelves for a more finished look. Enjoy the modular forms. Italian designer, Cartel, has some great modular storage units, wild and adventurous.