Dressing room in the hallway: varieties and beautiful examples
An entrance hall is one of the places in any house where you can leave all kinds of things safe and sound, regardless of the layout or parameters of a given zone. In many homes today there are already convenient niches for a quick and competent organization of an oversized dressing room in a small hallway. If there is no such niche in the hallway space, then it can easily be equipped with its own hands, and then a wardrobe, which is so important for many residents, can be put in it.
Advantages and disadvantages
The walk-in closet helps to neatly arrange all the things you need and not overload the rest of the rooms with huge wardrobes... When choosing this type of furniture to install it in a niche (or if you want to purchase a spacious dressing room the size of a room), you should be able to choose the right type of structure, its functional accessories, and also the accompanying filling. Most often, ordinary people opt for built-in furniture models, and previously very popular cabinet cabinets are slowly becoming a thing of the past.
When creating a wardrobe craftsmen calculate its parameters so that all elements of the powerful body are completely adhered to the flooring, as well as the ceiling and walls. Thanks to this, places are eliminated where dust and dirt used to accumulate for months, as was often the case when using cabinet models of furniture. Built in furniture also helps to create a special type of construction in a small one-room apartment, which looks quite modern and monolithic.
Also, the built-in structure is quite stable - you can not be afraid that the shelves may topple over or move during use.
If your hallway differs in non-standard parameters, then built-in furniture will come in handy here, because cabinet models are often produced in the form of a rectangle, and you are unlikely to be able to pick them up at the right size right away.
Built-in models of furniture for outerwear will help to save the free space of the apartment. This moment is extremely important when installing a dressing room in a space that is not the largest in size or in itself is extremely narrow. If you opted for a cabinet wardrobe, then in the end you will not get the most rational use of the available free space.
Built-in furniture will help to visually align those uneven surfaces of the space where it will be installed.
Cabinet cabinets, on the other hand, due to their rectangular shape, will, on the contrary, focus the increased attention of those around them even on the minimum irregularities that are present on the floors and walls.
Built-in types of furniture have significant disadvantages.
- The assembly is quite complicated, which can rarely be done on your own, so you have to turn to specialists for help.
- The built-in wardrobe cannot, if necessary, be rearranged to another place, because it is made according to the parameters and characteristics of those walls to which it will be further mounted. The likelihood that he will ideally be able to go to another place is extremely low.
- Built-in furniture will greatly ruin the walls, as it will be fixed to them with screws and dowels.
Species overview
You can find a large number of options for decorating modern dressing rooms, and this range depends not only on the appearance of the furniture itself, but also on its full functionality.
Wardrobe with swing doors
This type of furniture is perfect for traditional interiors in a classic style. The parameters of this wardrobe will entirely depend on the parameters of free space.
You should know that this decor element can easily be presented with a more creative look, just by using interesting accessories.
If we are concerned with the question of functionality, then more often 3 compartments are made in the overall dressing room. The lower one can be used to preserve shoes, the middle compartment is usually more than voluminous - outerwear is stored here, and the third compartment will perfectly keep your hats and hats. But if a not very large hallway has a very narrow passage, then this kind of swing doors will be very inconvenient with frequent use.
Walk-in wardrobe with sliding doors
This variation is considered the most popular in our time. After all, it allows you to save a lot of space, as it is fixed directly to the walls in a special niche, it will not create any interference when opening it, it will be able to accommodate very large things. The length of the furniture may depend on the length of the wall at which it is installed, and its width - on the parameters of the area of the room. By the way, even in very narrow corridors, you can easily put a wardrobe with sliding doors, simply by slightly reducing its parameters.
Open dressing room
Most want to hide the inner contents of their wardrobe from people entering the house, but there are ordinary people who like open spaces, so they completely abandon various furniture doors and mount an open wardrobe. All the furniture for the hallway, therefore, can only look like walls and different shelves.
When there are no furniture facades only partially, only the shelves in the center and hooks for all kinds of clothes will be considered open, but the upper and lower compartments of this piece of furniture can be covered with not very large doors.For the safety of various objects and things in the cabinets, special wicker small baskets or stylish interior boxes are used. These wardrobes often have a comfortable seat that runs along the entire structure.
Corner dressing room
If the hallway is spacious, then here you can put a corner dressing room, and already in it you can easily put things of a fairly large family. So that this structure does not look too massive, during its creation, and open shelves and closed storage niches.
Walk-in closet fitted in a wall niche
If you have a ready-made niche in the hallway, consider yourself very lucky, since a new dressing room can be easily placed there and thereby preserve the integrity of the entire space. You can purchase ready-made wardrobes or take a closer look at the popular built-in options.
Materials (edit)
Today, there are almost no special restrictions on the types of materials that can be chosen for the production of wardrobe facades. Companies producing modern furniture offer their customers both the most beautiful and, therefore, very expensive materials, as well as the most budgetary variations.
Facades for a large or small wardrobe can easily be made of MDF, chipboard, natural wood are also often used, you can find facades made of plasterboard, glass, large mirrors.
Facades look great, which immediately combine several types of popular materials. For example, a creative wardrobe will look original, which combines luxurious doors with mirrors and photo wallpaper.
Dimensions (edit)
The dimensions of the furniture will directly depend on the free area of the space. They may well be completely insignificant, or they may represent the possibility of organizing a huge dressing room.
Small wardrobe
If your apartment is of normal size, and the hallway here will not differ in large parameters, then you can always arrange a wardrobe for just a couple of square meters. For 2-3 people living in such a dwelling, this area will be quite enough. With a small size, the wardrobe in the hallway can be reduced even more, which helps to rationally distribute the space that is already compressed to a minimum.
It is worth remembering the simplest solution - this is an open-type mini-wardrobe, which usually does not take up very much space at the very front door.
It will consist of a minimum set of functional elements: a shoe rack, a railing with a minimum of hooks and a top shelf for hats and caps.
Large dressing room
If you do not need to save free space in the hallway, you can easily equip a very large space for storing things and clothes. For this, an additional wall is constructed from drywall and a door is placed in the resulting opening. Inside this space, you can experiment in different ways and distribute all the shelves, drawers and rods to your liking for placing hangers.
Color palette
The colors for this type of furniture should be selected based on the colors of the overall interior of the space. The color of the furniture for the hallway should be in harmony with the rest of the decor, wallpaper and even the color of the doors that lead to the living rooms.
Thanks to the luxurious assortment of modern furniture, you can easily choose the color of the dressing room you need:
- for a classic interior, the colors of natural wood are perfect - oak or walnut, beech or pine, wenge color;
- to make the room more catchy, pop-art colors are increasingly used for the dressing room - these are bright red, delicate pink, rich sand.
Internal filling
Accessories for wardrobe systems will help you keep all your belongings in order without any problems. This kind of systems for the safety of things can usually be quickly changed in space.
Due to the increased mobility of modern fittings, it is possible to store both short and long enough items of clothing inside the dressing room.
Steel shelves can hold items weighing up to 50 kg.
Due to the increased ergonomics of the wardrobe, even in a not very large or corner wardrobe, all your favorite things will be kept in perfect order. This will help you to cope with:
- barbells;
- hooks of various sizes;
- pull-out type hanger;
- various boxes;
- spacious shelves;
- large boxes;
- shoe racks;
- accessory hangers for men's ties and umbrellas.
Design options and beautiful examples
A closed dressing room will look very beautiful if it was released in a creative design. The young designers used enlarged mirrors and elegant metal fittings as a stylish interior design for the hallway. A very interesting idea is decorating the room with a wardrobe in a minimalist style - it will allow you to place all the most important things inside yourself so that they are always at hand.
The corner semicircular dressing room model will "take away" the area in the existing space a little, but do not forget that it is extremely difficult to design and install. Beautiful doors and partitions for it will cost much more than for conventional rectangular structures.
In dressing rooms, which are small in size, you can install a stylish ceiling chandelier or, as best as possible, illuminate individual storage areas with the help of small lamps. Ivory Provence style wardrobe made from natural wood will decorate any space.
The following video shows an example of a compact hallway that turns into a spacious dressing room for a one-room apartment.