Feb 27
Dressings
2007 at 07.13 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
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.
Stock or custom made?
Ikea
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.
Jesse
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.
Rimadesio
'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.
Noteborn
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
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.
Grandma's closet
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.
A couple of things to think of...
Before choosing a closet or dressing you have to ask yourself a couple questions concerning your living style. Things like:
- How much space to play with?
- Will it fit within the design of the rest of the bedroom
- What will be the purpose of the dressing? For example will be it be used by more than one person?
- How do you store your clothing? Do you fold or hang your pants and what about blouses?
- Do you own evening dresses/ long dresses?
- How do you store all accessories like belts, ties and little other things?
- How many shoes do own? Can be a lot if you are a woman :D
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.
25served
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I love how almost all of those pictures showcase the design of the closet with only 3 or 4 shirts per rack, etc…
Sure, it looks nicer that way, but it doesn’t really do a good job of showing what that particular design is capable of.
Multiply that x30 and you’re getting close to how many shirts I own. Multiply that x70 and you’re getting close to how many my wife own. Not even getting started on other items.
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I like the Jesse items, and my wife loves dust protection. So that would be our bet.
Personally, I prefer the Rimadessio or the Jesse lines. Very slick and i love the ability to change textures, and not just to the manu’s 2 or 3 specs, but to whatever matches your style/interior. Very slick.
Nice, Veerle. Much appreciated. We need to order a few add-ons to the apartment to make room for decent sized closets!
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Considering most of those “Dressings” are as big as my 1 bedroom apartment here in San Francisco I’d call them a second apartment.
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That’s pretty cool! Here are some of Italian manufacturers I could remember… Poliform , Molteni , Doimo , Bosca , Berloni . As an ex IKEA employee, on a long term, avoid it ;-)
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awesome. really cool. however in my reality, i have a hole in the wall with a paint splattered bar running across and a flimsy door that pops out of the track every few weeks. Nevermind a ‘room’, but still, if i ever get rich, im doing plurimo. and if its made from renewables.
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Hell, I wish I had the room for a dressing room!!
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Nice dressings!! The dressing is a finishing touch, it can make a room, soooo more beautiful. Like a image or color for a text.
And Veerle, a nice Belgium company is DM-line.
They have very nice dressings.
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Real nice. I like the 3rd picture. Japanese style rules!
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‘dressing room’ in the United States… Nordic design :), awesome.
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De “kastenkenners” op de Kortrijksesteenweg tussen De Pinte & Latem maakt ook héél mooie dingen op maat. Handig als je met schuine muren zit of ingemaakte kasten wil.
Groetjes
Sara
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I’ve never heard of “dressings” before. In the US, we call them “closets”. Actually in these cases we’d call them huge walk-in closets. “Dressing rooms” (not to be confused with either “dressings” or “closets”) tend to be places in clothing stores where you try on different articles of clothing that you’re thinking of buying.
It’s interesting to note that in each of the “dressings” shown, there is an actual dresser, while dressers in the US are actually in the bedroom instead of the closet. Maybe that’s why the rooms are a bit larger.
Also, I have to comment that in general Veerle, I love your site!
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yes, I have to say we don’t have such modern dressing rooms/spaces as shown in your photos above like that here in the US, and they are called closets in most cases, which are built into the walls, with doors that close them off. The first photo at the top above, could be like a large, walk-in closet here in the US where people would install floor to ceiling shelving to store things, but usually this is in a house, or only a large apartment. If you live in a building like mine, which is old, we just have old-fashioned closets, with doors. In some cases if you have a studio in an old building, you might have a dressing room which is about 6 feet square, with a large closet inside of the wall, or built-in shelves. The building I live in is old and has high ceilings, hardwood floors, with these types of dressing rooms that people have converted into bedrooms, that have French doors closing off from the living area. Anyway, the style and architecture is completely different - we don’t see so much modern design where I live. Seems like design is in general much more modern in Belgium.
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It would be very unusual to find a whole room for dressing here in Australia, thought some of the examples above are gorgeous.
We have walk-in robes with hanging and shelf space and a very small amount of other space. It would be nice to have a dressing room, and all the clothes to go in it too of course :)
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Great article, Veerle!
Having been born into a family that manufactures closets and sliding doors, I really appreciate all the hard work to create these product designs (and their presentation).
In Norway “dressing rooms” are not that common yet, but increasing in popularity. Typically, smaller wardrobes are custom made to fit into an existing space in the home.
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I still like my multi-layered “clothes on the bed to the chair to the floor to the hamper” organizing system. It has minimal overhead and creates wonderfully low expectations.
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Nice dressings for great premises.
My commendation http://www.huelsta.de/frameset
I like this blog, greetings.
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That Noteborn bedroom solutions are great and suitable I think.
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I LOVED this. I live in an 1880’s home. Bedroom, kitchen and dining are all contemporary. I’ve taken half of our bedroom (which was the attic) and made into a dressing area. I wish I had seen this sight earlier as I’m inspired to take the doors off all the closets and shelved area and put glass up for a more spacious feel. I need source for contemporary door slides that act like a barn door slide.
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Good ideas for my futur dressing room!
Thanks ;)
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Those rooms are amazing. I’m currently looking @ condos around the Boston area. I’m drooling at some of those dressings.
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Veerle,
We have a store here in the US called Crate & Barrel that sells sleek-looking modern, very functional furniture that you might enjoy looking at. The photos of your dressing closets reminded me of them. Here is their website:
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/default.aspx
They have a lot of different kinds of furniture, indoor/outdoor, etc. plus other houseware stuff. I think they are only located in the US, but probably ship furniture elsewhere, and I know some of their furniture is actually made in Europe. They have a great-looking website too.
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Nice article and very helpful ideas for my next dressing room.The second recommendation is very impressive!
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Veerle nice report. I come here in quite late. But have done some of this closets you show pictures above. Your question of stock or custom is very simple
- What’s your budget (sorry to be that direct)
- Next would be availability of space.
- What’s your wardrobe and life style ??????
One can do wonders with stock items too. Custom depends on your environment you live in and personal preference. Something you mentioned is for me as a designer one of the most important items when designing a closet.
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Hi,
the article is verry interesting and the photos are amazing - professional work.
Good ideas!
Greets from Germany
Sven
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hi all. nice blog. its very ineresting article.
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