How to redo the old storage room in Khrushchev in modern dressing room. We give tips and practical advice.
A separate clothing room is no longer a luxury, but the necessary element of any home. With the amount of things that accumulates each family member, there is a need to organize their storage. Here they will always be in their places, ideally. The need for wardrobes in the rest of the premises disappears, and there is more free space in the house.
By the way about free place. Not only in large mansions there are such rooms, but also in panel houses. This uses suitable niches, angles or utility rooms. In many Khrushchev, the plan provides pantry. Tell how to make a dressing room with your own hands from the storage room, the photo of successful examples can be viewed in the gallery.
Principles planning
First you need to analyze the number of items that are planned to be stored. Divide on the types: those that hang on the hangers lie on the shelves or in boxes. Clothing that is used this season should be at hand, the rest is removed away.
Now you need to draw a plan for the elements of the storage system. From how accurately it will be drawn up, the number of purchased materials and a list of necessary tools depends. It is better to lay a few additional shelves or boxes in the project, which in the future can be useful.
An excellent idea will split the space on the men's department, female and children's. It is easier to sort and look for the necessary items.
-->Getting Started by Storena Alteration, you need to think in advance the method of ventilation. Things absorb smells and moisture, so the ventilation will not only provide the influx of clean air, but also keep clothes from sharpness and mold. With this task, the usual extractor or air conditioning can cope.
Good ventilation reduces the sedimentation of dust on things, protects against moths and other pests.
An important component is lighting. It has to look for things, often trying to try them, so the light should be enough. Point ceiling lights, LED ribbons around the perimeter of the ceiling or floor, wall scaves, lamps on clothespins - the choice depends on the style that is scheduled for the dressing room. To the place there will be lamps with motion sensors - the light turns on when the door opens, and goes out when it closes.
It will not be worth the additional backlight on the shelves.
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Location of racks in the dressing room in the storage room
Planning racks depends on the size and configuration of the pantry. There are several types of standard schemes: angular, linear, P-shaped, parallel.
The angular is located along two adjacent walls. The design is quite spacious due to the use of a large number of drawers. On a free wall you can hang a large mirror.
For a linear need at least 2 square meters. m. Racks are located along one side of the room. The opposite can be decorated with mirrors. So visually the room will seem more. In such structures, roll-out rolls are widely used. They are easy to use and in use easily easily move back to the rack.
Even a tiny dressing room can be decorated with indoor plants.
-->For the P-shaped area is required from 3 square meters. m. It is important to take into account the distance between the walls to move freely around the room. The minimum distance between the racks is 80 cm. If the room is narrow, then the retractable boxes are better made in the end part.
For parallel, a fairly spacious pantry is needed. In essence, these are two linear racks located opposite each other. It is convenient to share such a room on the female and men's halves.
Wardrobe division from storage area
The storage system is customized to divide in the zone altitude: top, middle and lower. At the top (above 2 m) there are promonated clothing and rarely used things. Most often these are shelves, open or hidden behind the doors. To reach this zone, you will need a stair of a stepladder or stand.
If you make the shelves with mesh, it will be more convenient to see their contents.
-->In the middle (from 60 cm to 2 m), clothing worn in this season and hats. It is represented by shelves, boxes and rods. Retractable boxes are best done below the chest level so as not to make it difficult to review the content.
In the middle zone, bags, decorations, umbrellas and other accessories are also stored.
-->Footwear is stored in the lower zone (up to 60 cm). For her, roll-out stands are suitable or separate junction with inclined shelves. In this zone, instruments, sports equipment or household appliances can also be stored, such as a vacuum cleaner.
Internal organization
Wardrobe from the storage room in Khrushchev can be of different types: frame, panel, mesh and case.
The frame is a complex of metal racks. A kind of skeleton, which is hung the shelves, rods, rails and baskets. The holes on them allow to secure modules at different heights, in the process of adding new elements. This design is inexpensive, it is easily going, it can be dismantled and transferred to another place.
If the area of the pantry is small, it is better to equip it with an open type system. Doors "eat" extra centimeters. For small items make several closed boxes.
-->Panel is a special panels that are mounted on the wall. All storage elements are installed on them. This is a more expensive wardrobe option, but it looks luxurious. Most often it makes it from chipboard, MDF and veneer of different breeds of wood.
The characteristic feature of such a system is parallel horizontal lines.
-->Mesh is metal shelves and baskets that are attached with the help of the guides on the wall. Easy installation, multiple combinations and visual eases make this system very popular. Additional plus - things in such grids are ventilated.
It is important to know that the mesh structures withstand the load up to 60 kg.
-->Case is furniture modules interconnected. Produced most often from chipboard or MDF. They are solid and spacious, moreover, affordable. The only disadvantage can be considered the inability to rearrange the modules.
Filling a small wardrobe from the storage room
Depending on the style of the selected style, the filling elements make from different materials: wood, chipboard, metal, plastic.
Shelves are open and closed. Their depth is better to do no more than 60 cm - this is the average length of the human hand. If they are deeper, it will be inconvenient from there.
Upper tiers can be made wider than the lower. The main thing is to correctly calculate their height so as not to touch your head. It is convenient to store travel bags, boxes with toys or other volumetric rare items.
The rods make under each type of clothing: coat, dresses, shirts, trousers and skirts. They have them at different heights. It is permissible to place them in the upper zone, choosing retractable varieties with pantograph. With it, you can lower down the entire bar.
For storage, the rod trousers can be supplemented with trousers.
-->Drawers for small items are complemented by separators to exclude them confusion. They can be moved to different depth, but not less than 30 cm. Depending on the selected style, you can arrange with their original handles or do without them without them, leaving for the convenience of opening the recess at the top of the panel.
Baskets, boxes and containers are an indispensable component of any storage system. Basket most often take metal. In cardboard boxes stored unused shoes in this season. For the convenience of searching on them there are tags with a description of the content. In plastic transparent containers of different sizes store small things. It is convenient: it can be seen what lies inside.
To save place, fabric pockets are suitable for storing small accessories. They can be made in the same color scheme as the main design, or choose a contrast hue. They can also store a sewing set on an unforeseen case or brush for clothes.
Sets of such pockets hang on hooks.
-->Hooks for umbrellas, strap hangers and ties - small, but very convenient devices that allow you to maintain order even in a tiny room.
Mirrors are an important part of internal filling. Here must be a large mirror, in which you can inspect yourself in full growth. In addition to it, you can add several mirrors smaller. So they not only visually expand the small room, but will allow themselves to see themselves during fitting from different angles.
If it allows the area, you can put a chair, the dock, the chair of an unusual shape and put a small rug nearby.
This will add the room comfort, and so it will be more comfortable to try shoes.
-->Depending on the chosen style style, there are ordinary swing, coupe or in the form of a harmonica. The last two species fully open the review of the room and serve as an interesting decorative element. By choosing a facade suitable for the rest of the interior, you can enter a former storage room into a common house design.
The door-harmonica is convenient, original and easy to execute.
-->If the door canvas for some reason does not fit into the design concept, the entrance can be made a beautiful arch. Always winning in the doorways of the curtains. You can play with color, textile density, try different drapery options. At the peak of popularity now photo-curtains and decorative threads.
All elements of the system that come into contact with clothing must be carefully processed, without roughness, not to do on the wigs.
Textiles will add the interior of soft and comfort.
-->How to make a dressing room from storage room with your own hands
Necessary materials
To start equipping a dressing room in the storeroom, you need to free it from things. If necessary, make cosmetic repairs: equal walls and gender.
Finishing materials are selected taking into account the specifics of the room. Wet after the rain jacket, evapoiced in autumn silent shoes - all this brings with them damp and dirt. Therefore, the wall panels and the floor are better separated by materials that are easily clean and clean. At the same time, the room should be a good air circulation, so it is better to choose air-permeable materials.
The walls are better to paint the water-free paint of the desired shade. As an option - to save washing wallpaper. Laminate, parquet board, linoleum, ceramic tiles are placed on the floor. Do not recommend putting on the floor of the carpet, as he collects dust.
For racks, the material is chosen to their taste: wood, plywood, chipboard. If there are old unnecessary cabinets in stock, you can build a system from their parts. It will be unusual and not so costly.
Installation of storage system
Furniture forums often discuss the question of how to make a dressing room with their own hands. Experienced furniture makers say that the most important thing is to determine its type. If it is a frame version, then, taking the basis of the planned plan, you must calculate the desired amount of materials. Their approximate list:
- Metal pipes will be useful for racks and rods;
- Chipboard is the main material for shelves and boxes;
- edge ribbon for processing the end part of the plates;
- guides and attachments (self-tapping screws, loops, corners);
- Fittings (handles, hooks).
Pipes are better to use chromed. It is convenient to use pipes with an outer diameter to 25 mm. DSP is better to take laminated, with a matte or glossy coating to choose from.
An example of a framework of a storage system.
-->Next proceed to the installation of the system:
- cut pipes on the segments of the desired length;
- saw DPS for shelves and treated with ribbon;
- Install and secure vertical racks, guides and fasteners;
- Place the shelves and boxes on their place;
- Place the doors and fasten the fittings.
When mounting the mesh design on the walls, the carrier element is attached. It is hung on vertical guides from aluminum profiles. Then the remaining elements of the system are fixed on them: baskets, rods, hooks.
An example of a reticent storage system.
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When placing the room, you do not need to forget about the external attractiveness. The aesthetic component of the racks affects the mood. If the morning will begin with a cozy comfortable room for clothes, then the day will surely be successful.
For the decoration of the room, eaves, socles, trim in the form of a thread are used. Sandblast drawings are applied on the mirrors. You can experiment here with photo wallpapers or decorate the walls with reproductions of paintings. The contrasting backlight will look original, which is directed to separate compartments. The appearance of the room may not fit into some kind of defined style, the main thing is that he pleased the eye and enhanced the mood.
