Designing your dressing room

Many people dream of creating their own custom-made dressing room in a dedicated room. But how do you design and arrange this storage space? What decorative possibilities are open to you? Mobilier de France provides the answers in this article.

Dressing rooms are the trend. This type of closet allows you to organize your clothes. This organization is a functional and decorative ideal sought by many people. Cinema and television show perfectly organized dressing rooms, displaying clothes in flawless order: this is the ideal that decorating professionals and, more generally, all those who wish to have such a storage space are striving for. Everyone's looking for their own star dressing room.

It's a fact that modern interiors feature these very special closets that optimize the storage space dedicated to clothes, while offering real space savings compared to a classic wardrobe or closet. Tailor-made wardrobes are the latest trend.

In fact, a wardrobe is a piece of furniture with limited and finite dimensions, destined to be unable to indefinitely meet the storage needs of its occupants. There are two solutions: change the cabinet for a larger model, or add a second one, at the risk of losing space.

By choosing a made-to-measure dressing room, the occupant has a fully modular space, which can be adapted to the real needs of the household. What's more, by definition, a dressing room can be installed in a dedicated room or integrated into a section of the room, thus saving space in the home, unlike a wardrobe whose volume takes up part of the room.

It is therefore possible to take advantage of the presence of such a storage space whether in a small or large room. These furnishing and decorating projects are for everyone and every budget!

There are three different ways to create a made-to-measure walk-in wardrobe, depending on the layout of the room:

- The basic model is I-shaped, i.e. it occupies one entire side of the room, the other three sides being conventional walls.
- An L-shaped walk-in wardrobe runs around the corner of the room, extending over two perpendicular sides. This is the superior model, well-suited to bedrooms and allowing storage to be optimized quite suitably.
- The U-shape is for rooms dedicated exclusively to clothing storage. It's ideal for most people, since it offers optimal organization worthy of the most common cinematic representations. It occupies three walls of the same room, the last wall being the doorway. For this shape to be used, the room must be at least 4m² in size.
- "Cabin" dressings are similar to U-shaped dressings, except that they don't occupy a room in their own right. Usually installed in the bedroom, they are placed in a closed space accessible from the room.

In all cases, you can opt for an open model, i.e. with no doors, or a closed model which can be equipped with hinged or sliding doors.

A made-to-measure wardrobe allows you to arrange this piece of furniture in the best conditions, since its dimensions are adapted to those of the room. You can, however, opt for a wardrobe with standard dimensions. But be sure to choose a model that best suits the space available, especially if you live in a small home.

There are no restrictions on the room in which a dressing room can be installed. It can be perfectly integrated into the couple's bedroom, the parents' bedroom in the case of a family, or the children's bedroom. The bedrooms in your home are also ideal locations for your dressing room. But if the layout of your rooms doesn't allow it, you can choose other locations such as the dining room, or one of the house's corridors.

Generally speaking, if you have a space of less than 4m², prefer I or L shapes when designing your storage furniture.

To create a custom-made dressing room, we recommend the following:
- Provide drawers, pull-out baskets, shelves and hanging rails. These various elements will optimize your storage space. Add light bulbs or LED ribbons to the interior. These are indispensable sources of light for searching and sorting your clothes!
- Shelves should be between 30 and 40 cm wide, and up to 50 cm deep, to provide sufficient space for folded clothes. As for the hanging bar for jackets, coats and dresses, it can be up to 1.20 m long, or even 1.70 m if you need to hang evening gowns or other particularly long garments.
- When choosing between a swing door and a sliding door, consider the strengths and weaknesses of each type of opening. With a swing door, the opening onto your storage space is total, but the room is cluttered as long as it's open, unlike the sliding model, which doesn't encroach on the living space.
- To make your dressing room to measure, you need to organize the cabinet in the direction of the clothes. In other words, head coverings up high, shoes at floor level.
- Don't hesitate to include mirrors on your doors to facilitate your daily dressing.