One aspect of living is owning a lot of stuff that needs to be stored in some way. So today we are going to look into the world of ‘dressings’ as it is known here and probably ‘dressing room’ in the United States. Officially it means a small room next to the bedroom to store and hang cloths. There are a lot of solutions out there from antique to modern, for all spaces and budgets.
There are many options to choose from and a good start are the affordable solutions from Ikea. PAX is a storage series with wardrobes in different sizes, styles and colors for the doors. The two Pax sliding doors are mounted on the same rail so that it appears like a dressing in a niche. For an open dressing room or a dressing in a niche your best option is to go for carriers and accessories out of the 'Stolmen' series. Pax is also specially adapted for 'Komplement' interior fixtures that you can use to customize the inside of your wardrobe to best suit your clothes or preference.
Here are some ideas from Jesse called 'Plurimo'. Plurimo's versatility permits designing configurations able to adapt to any interior. It has hanging/folding doors, siliding doors and inside fittings. A nice touch is that the sliding doors also feature dust protection profiles along the entire surround.
'Dress' is an example of a completely modular system for your dressing room. The glass range has tempered glasses, safety glasses and laminated glasses. Rimadesio specializes in ultra-clean and modern lines featuring translucent panels for an open, airy feeling.
In all the research I did so far Noteborn is my favorite and seems to have a good balance between price, look and quality. They produce custom made wardrobes and closets with sliding doors or hinged doors, Walk- in closets, sideboards and storage elements. Each program has its own specific characteristics and is different from the others. All sliding door programs are made up of one or two or more doors that slide in a track . This track can be on the floor with a track on the ceiling or it can be on the ceiling only (in the case of a hanging door) with no track on the floor. The tracks are made up of one, two or three channels with a maximum length of 6 meters. Each door is made of an aluminium frame with a central filler of your choice. This way you can construct your own door fronts choosing different materials and colors, for instance combining wood panels with glass panels. That's probably what we are going to go far.
Treku has shelfs that can mounted at any height between the aluminum bars placed on the ground or on basis like on the picture below. Like with most dressings there are a lot of accessories, shelfs, clothing rods, pants hangers and drawer modules. The example on the image (150 x 300 cm) costs 2.262 Euro, the basis costs 374 Euro.
If you happen to find such a spacious closet don't think that it doesn't work anymore. Those closets are 'in' again for storing your wardrobe. Most of the time they are in massive wood so not glued, something that is starting to be pretty rare these days in modern furniture. These types of closets can be the eyecather of the room. If you really want to go the extra mile you could decorate the shelfs with flower paper just as grandma did back in the day :) Most antique dealers will have them on sale.
Before choosing a closet or dressing you have to ask yourself a couple questions concerning your living style. Things like:
Equally important is your budget because that will tell you how far you can go in the composition. I'm sure there are plenty of other brands out there but I thought this could be a starting point if you are on the look out. The first step is getting ideas and I hope this will help.
