A beautiful home for all of my clothes
- December 02, 2015
- by
- The Glambassador
A dream of mine has finally come true. I have my very own dressing room where ALL of my clothes and accessories are in one place. In my home in Maryland, Will’s uncle built us a lovely walk-in closet and it served us both well for many years. The only problem was that since we shared the closet I had to rotate my clothes every season. I would pack up clothes from Spring/Summer or Fall/Winter and place them in space bags to sit and wait for their turn to come out to play. It was a pain in the bum and I hated not having everything there at my finger tips.
When we moved to Germany, we were told not to expect closets in our home. In fact Will’s job actually provided us with a few wardrobes, knowing that this is commonplace. As we knew we’d be living in a larger home, Will and I came to an agreement that since we’d have to figure out a wardrobe situation anyway, I would be able to turn an extra room into my own dressing room.
Well we found our perfect home in Germany, a large and old (built in 1904) farmhouse. And low an behold, not a single closet to be had in the entire house. All in all there are 13 rooms (counting all 3 bathrooms) in our house and I have taken over one of them to house my wardrobe. I had consulted a few friends on what would be the best options for me as they had also finished similar projects. It’s taken a few months to get everything together, but it’s pretty much finished. I have some lighting issues to figure out and I’d like to find a rug to cover the hardwood floors, but other than that my dressing room is complete.
IKEA has never been my favorite place, but their wardrobe system is absolutely perfect. I chose the white PAX wardrobes without doors for my clothes and the BILLY bookcases for my shoes. I have to say that I’m really happy with this system and I love all of the ways you can customize with drawers, shelves, baskets and other accessories. I had the settee, the sofa table and mirrored jewelry cabinet already, and my main brooch display was a handmade gift from Will.
I’m so proud of my room and happy to share it with you all. If you have any questions about what items I used, please feel free to comment below and I’ll answer your questions ASAP.
Here is the room prior to paining and after I painted it a light blue color.
Here is the finished project
I love this lady head vase, she’s perfect for holding my hat pins. The trophy was actually my Mom’s, she was 2nd runner up as Mrs. Senior California in 2007.
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20 Comments
Brenda J. Kline
2nd Dec 2015 - 4:55 pmAwesome. Looking good also looks like a lot of hard work. How do you decide what to wear each day? You did good kido.
Does Will have his own dressing room?
The Glambassador
2nd Dec 2015 - 4:58 pmThanks Aunt Brenda! Will is using the wardrobe his work gave us, they are in our bedroom, so I guess he has his own room 🙂
Karen
2nd Dec 2015 - 6:52 pmAmazing hun that’s a project for my spare room after Xmas.x
The Glambassador
4th Dec 2015 - 8:05 amKaren,
That’s wonderful! Have fun with it.
Christine
Becky Tomlinson
2nd Dec 2015 - 7:38 pmWonderful!!! You have so many pretty things & I would love to raid this room, haha!! I REALLY like your brooch collection; your BINGO brooch is too cute 🙂
The Glambassador
2nd Dec 2015 - 7:40 pmThanks doll! I’m actually going to be going through and selling a few things. I’ll let you know when I do.
Victoria Lawrence
3rd Dec 2015 - 4:16 pmBeautiful room! And, so very efficient! Thanks for sharing this… I’ve got some great ideas now for mine!
The Glambassador
4th Dec 2015 - 8:04 amVictoria,
Thank you! I’m glad you could get some inspiration from my dressing room.
Christine
Tanya Irina
4th Dec 2015 - 1:53 amWow!! You did an amazing job decorating and organizing this room. So beautiful. Congratulations!!
The Glambassador
4th Dec 2015 - 8:03 amTanya,
Thank you so much. I’m so happy with how it turned out.
Christine
Victoria Lawrence
4th Dec 2015 - 10:47 pmAre you planning to do a house tour? Your closet room has a fascinating shape…. makes me curious about the architecture of you house. Plus, you obviously have great taste!
The Glambassador
6th Dec 2015 - 1:36 pmI might do a few photos of the house once it’s all situated. It’s a beautiful old house and it has a lot of character.
Jessica Cangiano
5th Dec 2015 - 9:29 pmWords escape me!!! How incredibly, fabulously, completely amazing! I’m elated for you, sweet dear, and adored getting to see your stunning wardrobe room (which is something that I’ve dreamed of having my whole life, too – hopefully someday; for now my closet makes a matchbox look roomy by comparison ;)).
Lots of hugs & happy weekend wishes,
♥ Jessica
*PS* Your hat collection is sublime!
Bonita Vear (@bjvear)
9th Dec 2015 - 6:42 amYay!! It’s so exciting that you have your closet all set up the way you want ~ I l.o.v.e. everything about your wardrobe room! #lifegoals! ❤
xox,
bonita of Lavender & Twill
Rachelle
2nd Mar 2016 - 10:39 amWow this is amazing….you have so much pretty things. …i am a bit jealous haha sometimes my husband thinks i have to manu dress es. ..i willen show him this post 😉
Una Geiger
12th Mar 2016 - 11:57 pmBe still my beating heart … I love your dressing room … and I love your clothes … OMG so many beautiful dresses 🙂 My style is similar to yours, very vintage, landgirl-ish.
Wonderful room!!!
Una Geiger
13th Mar 2016 - 12:53 amOops somehow my former entry got eaten 🙁
I love that dressing room, you created a very fabulous space of feminity 🙂 And all those gorgeous dresses, beautiful 🙂
I have a similar style, though not so many dresses LOL Great to see you living in Germany now. I’m from the Lower Rhine area. ‘waves’
Emiwee
30th Apr 2016 - 3:31 amI have a pretty large walk-in closet with custom built shelving but yours is so so beautiful and 4x bigger as well. I’m planning on doing the same to my son’s bedroom when he goes off to college (he doesn’t know yet that he’s losing his room, I think I’ll just surprise him). How do you mount your hats, 3M command hooks?
The Glambassador
30th Apr 2016 - 8:27 pmThat sounds wonderful!! Yes, those little 3M hooks are amazing. They work perfectly.
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