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21 Best Small Walk-in Closet Storage Ideas for Bedrooms

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Updated on 07/02/22

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Having a small walk-in closet in your bedroom can force you to streamline your belongings so you can make easier choices about what to keep and what to toss.

What is a Walk-In Closet?

A walk-in closet is large enough to allow one or more people to open the door and walk into the space to access clothing. (A reach-in closet only lets you open the door to reach in to access clothing.) Oftentimes both sides of the closet and the far end are filled with rods and storage for clothing and there's a small "walkway" measuring at least a few feet wide that lets you walk into the space.

Maximizing your closet space is the key to organizing a walk-in closet. From racks to rods, and drawers to bins, the following ideas will help you optimize every square inch of your closet with purposeful storage solutions.

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By Mariah Thomas

LA Closet Design

Walk-in closets are the epitome of luxury. While, yes, they're a great place to store your clothes, shoes and accessories, walk-in closets can also become a respite from the rest of your house (if done right). But even if you have tons of space to work with, it's easy for your things to get scrambled, especially if there isn't a proper organization system in place. That's where these inspiring walk-in closet ideas come into play.

Whether you're looking to transform part of your bedroom into a walk-in closet or revamp what you already have, we've got plenty of ideas to help you make the most of your space, big or small. Keep in mind that there are two main factors to consider: the room's style and function. Along with finding an inviting design, it's equally as important to go with an efficient layout and organization system to create a sense of order, whether it's with baskets, color-coded shelves or additional storage solutions. (Psst, get even more smart closet organization tips here.)

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Baskets High and Low

Caroline Lee for The Container Store Custom Closets

Use baskets to give everything a home. Keep anything that you may reach for more frequently in the lower baskets and put any off-season items up high.

SHOP BASKETS

2

Functional Island

LA Closet Design

Islands are great to include in larger walk-in closets. Take inspiration from LA Closet Design and add a marble island to balance out a sleek white design.

3

Makeup Table

From Great Beginnings

Bring a makeup table into your closet to help you get ready with ease. Store your everyday products on a deep shelf, hang a mirror and throw in a cozy stool to create the ultimate setup.

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4

Fashion Forward

LA Closet Design

Featuring faux fur accents, marble countertops and a plush ottoman, this closet has a luxe and elegant look. Incorporate full-length mirrors throughout the space to make it look more spacious.

SHOP OTTOMAN

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5

Statement Shelves

Unlikely Martha

Install wallpaper behind shelves for a personal touch. Opt for colorful designs to make an impact in an all-white room.

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6

Smart Storage

Getty Images/ Marcus Lindstrom

For a simple yet efficient fix, add dressers and shoe racks to your space. Don't forget to look up — extra luggage and bags can easily be stored on high shelves.

SHOP SHOE RACK

7

Jewelry Wall

Elsie Larson

Instead of using jewelry boxes, drawers or shelves for your accessories, try hanging them on an empty wall. This makes it easier to showcase the pieces you own and find the perfect one to wear.

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8

Accessories on Display

LA Closet Design

The way you place accessories on shelves can determine the closet's overall look. Install light strips throughout to illuminate your collection.

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9

Color-Coded Shelves

LA Closet Design

Color-coding your closet is appealing to the eye, but it also makes picking out an outfit so much easier. Hang a neon sign in a vibrant hue to personalize and brighten the space.

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10

Purse Hangers

Katrina Blair

This walk-in closet has tons of drawers and shelf space for hats and shoes. Instead of displaying your bags on the shelves, find hooks to hang them.

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11

Hanging Shoes

LA Closet Design

While you can always stick your shoes directly on shelves, hang tall boots with special hangers to maximize space.

SHOP BOOT HANGERS

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12

Full-on Neutral

Getty Images/ Colleen Michaels

This closet's neutral color exudes the feeling of sophistication. Here, bags and shoes are stored neatly on shelves; clothes are hung on rods; drawers are used for extra storage.

Mariah Thomas Assistant Editor Mariah Thomas (she/her) is an assistant editor for Good Housekeeping, where she covers home and lifestyle content.

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Design of a bedroom with a dressing room (16 photos), the interior of a built-in wardrobe in the bedroom

Insulated or walk-through, behind glass or textiles, corner or in a niche - a dressing room in the bedroom can be arranged with any number of square meters. We show on the example of Russian projects and apartments of the usual footage.

Editor's note: under the dressing room - as opposed to the built-in wardrobe - we understand the space where you can enter and change. Wardrobe ideas that you can borrow when designing a bedroom wardrobe are also included (you will find them at the very end of the collection).

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1. Sliding doors in the color of the walls
In the project of designer Olesya Fedorenko, the dressing room occupies a solid area: it stretches across the entire width of the bedroom. In order not to visually split the room, the sliding doors of the dressing room were painted in a rich pink shade - the color of the walls. This technique helped to adjust the proportions of the bedroom, to make the interior visually solid.

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Inna Velichko

. Pay attention to the photo of the bedroom: transom windows are provided under the ceiling, through which natural light enters the dressing room.

Pavel Noritsyn

3. Bedroom interior with dressing room and office
Townhouse owners calculated the desired dimensions of the dressing room and built additional partitions. And the wall between the dressing room and the window was used to organize a small corner for sewing.

Anastasia Viventsova

4. Glossy texture
The design of a dressing room at the bedroom can be a way to set accents. In this project, designer Anastasia Viventsova provided a sliding door of increased height in the dressing room: the canvas visually raises the level of the ceiling, and due to the glossy finish it breaks the monotony of the beige wall.

Maria Vasilenko

5. Bedroom with a rounded wardrobe
Designer Maria Vasilenko enclosed the dressing room with a rounded wall: this technique softens the geometry of the bedroom. In addition, on such an angle, unlike a straight one, it is impossible to catch or hit. Vertical linear lighting visually raises the ceiling and is used as a night light.

Flats Design / Evgenia Matveenko

6. A bedroom with a dressing room in a contrasting cube
Designer Evgenia Matveenko suggested that the customers turn the bed headboard towards the dressing room. This arrangement is explained by the elongated shape of the room. The dressing room in the bedroom was not only not hidden, but, on the contrary, it was accentuated with bright blue decorative plaster and backlighting.

Sadkova Xenia

7. Design bedroom, combined with a large dressing room
Designer Ksenia Sadkova placed the dressing room opposite the window: now you can get dressed in the morning in natural light. Please note: the dressing room is zoned by sliding doors, but attention was also paid to the design of the wide portal - its lining duplicates the shade of the headboard and flooring.

MK-Interio

8. Bedroom with dressing room lined with mirror and parquet
Alexandra Kazakovtseva and Maria Makhonina, MK-Interio, used parquet made of exotic sucupira wood to decorate the dressing room. The covering runs from the bedroom floor to the outer walls of the dressing room and frames a large mirror - it was provided to make it easier for the owners to choose outfits.

DVEKATI

9. A narrow bedroom with a dressing room
The authors of the project Ekaterina Svanidze and Ekaterina Lyubarskaya divided the narrow elongated room in a two-room Khrushchev into a bedroom and a dressing room. The opening was closed with a textile partition, and the bed was placed along the dressing room wall - this made it possible to allocate space for a home office.

Architectural workshop of Elena Timchenko

10. Textiles and lighting
The author of the project Elena Timchenko singled out a small dressing room at the bedroom with the help of textiles - an original and very budgetary way. The cornice is complemented by soft evening lighting, so that in the evenings the dressing room turns into a night light.

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11. Bedroom and dressing room in one room (plus a sports corner)
Designer Ivan Pozdnyakov placed a dressing room and a sports corner in the student's bedroom. They are located in one zone and, if necessary, these utilitarian zones can be easily fenced off with a textile partition.

Oksana Yakunina

12. Dressing room in bedroom behind a textile partition
Designed by Oksana Yakunina, the dressing room is hidden behind the headboard. You can get into it by rounding the drapery from two sides.

Loginova Natalia / designer, decorator.

13. Bedroom design with dressing room room in a glass cube
Designer Natalya Loginova designed the dressing room with tinted glass to add glossy textures to a calm and soft interior. The contrast is created by light lace and decorative textiles, so the interior does not look too gloomy.

Ze|Workroom Studio

14. Glass dressing room in the attic bedroom
A transparent partition is a bold decision, because things are always in sight. Designers Aleksey Shibaev and Alexandra Averkina suggested this technique to the customers in order to preserve maximum natural light. And the owners agreed to maintain perfect order in the dressing room.

Arina Volkova

15. Dressing room in the bedroom in glass
Designer Arina Volkova offered her customers to fully glaze the dressing room next to the bedroom. According to the designer, various options were discussed: covering the glass with a reflective film, adding blinds and even curtains inside the dressing room. As a result, the owners decided to go against the pattern: the dressing room for them is one of the most important functional rooms in the apartment.

MK-Interio

16. Two wardrobes in the bedroom
Frosted doors to the left and right of the bed lead to two wardrobes - for the owner and the hostess. Aleksandra Kazakovtseva and Maria Makhonina from MK-Interio deliberately did not raise the partition at the head to the ceiling: there is no window in one of the dressing rooms, and natural light gets there from the bedroom.

Yulia Khokhlova

17. Invisible dressing room in the room
In Yulia Khokhlova's project, the entrance to the dressing room is hidden behind partitions imitating wall panels. The central part of the wall is decorated in the same way: if you don’t know about the existence of a dressing room, you might not even guess.

Elena Babushkina

18. Interior of a bedroom with a dressing room, which only the owners will find
In this bedroom, the TV is located not on the wall, but on the sliding door to the dressing room. Thus, designer Elena Babushkina organized a secret room in the apartment.

Oleg Dedkov

19. Dressing room with a mirror corridor
The dressing room in Alisa Pasternak's project is hidden behind a wall decorated with wooden panels. You can get into it along the mirror corridor (in the photo - to the left of the bed).

Le Atelier

20. Bedroom with bathroom and dressing room
The walk-in closet in the design of the architectural bureau Le Atelier: through it the owners get from the bedroom to the bathroom. The dressing room is separated from the common space by a glazed door to the ceiling, which emphasizes the height of the ceiling in the old house.

Berphin Interior

21. Walk-in closet behind slatted facades
This bedroom is only 15 sqm, but there is room for a walk-in closet here too. Designers Zina Broyan and Inna Tedjoeva singled it out into a separate block and made it a walk-through (you can get to the bathroom through the dressing room), and the entrance was closed with slatted accordion doors.

Olga Shangina | Photography

22. Walk-in wardrobe between study and bedroom
The owner asked to organize the space in such a way as to maximize the use of the area of ​​the apartment, and the architect Ksenia Rakovskaya proposed a circular layout. From the bedroom, the owner can get into the shower room and into the office - bypassing the dressing room.

Olga Shangina | Photography

23. Dressing room and laundry at the bedroom
The area of ​​this apartment is only 60 sq. m. Considering the small footage, designer Victoria Mirzoyeva included a mini-laundry room in the dressing room next to the bedroom. The rooms are separated by a sliding door, decorated in the color of the wall.

MAKEdesign

24. Design of a bedroom with a corner wardrobe
To fit the wardrobe into a small bedroom, Diana Karnaukhova and Victoria Karyakina, MAKEdesign, made it a corner wardrobe. The sliding door was installed diagonally: otherwise there would be no room for opening.

Max Kasymov Interior/Design

25. Smart Ceiling Storage System
Designer Max Kasymov separated the dressing room from the bedroom with glass and a curtain, and provided a shallow grilyato ceiling in the wardrobe itself. This technique is most often found in technical rooms, but is also suitable for residential interiors. The surface above the grille is painted black for a "deep" ceiling effect, and behind it are hidden the indoor air conditioning unit and ventilation wiring.

Design and architecture studio MART Architects

26. Wardrobe room with slatted ceiling
In the project of the MART studio designers, the dressing room became a continuation of the bedroom: a couple lives in the apartment, so it was decided not to put partitions and doors between the two rooms. All shelving in the dressing room is open, and LED strips are hidden behind the slatted panel on the ceiling.

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27. Dressing room in the bedroom behind the bed
The bedroom in the project of designer Dina Kostochka is quite small, so they did not close the dressing room in an isolated space. The basis for the dressing room is a bookcase: from the side of the bedroom it is decorated with unusual diagonal shelves. A capacious line of cabinets was placed on the reverse side: you can approach them by going around the partition on both sides. In addition, natural light enters the dressing room.

Evgenia Nazarova

Karinsky Arseniy Architectural Studio

28. Design of a bedroom combined with a triangular dressing room
Creating an apartment layout of a complex shape, the architect Arseniy Karinsky singled out a triangular room for a wardrobe - this technique corrected the proportions of other rooms. There are three doors in the dressing room, but the remaining space is used from floor to ceiling: wardrobes with dark facades were made to order for an unusual configuration.

Dina Aleksandrova

29. Dressing room that pretended to be a closet
A small dressing room in the bedroom from the outside looks more like a closet. But behind the sliding facades there is a mini-room (pictured below), in which there is enough space for movement, there is a full-length mirror and lighting.

Dina Aleksandrova

Marina Govorushko

30. Dressing room in the bedroom behind frosted partitions
The design of a bedroom combined with a dressing room looks softer if frosted glass is used for the partitions - as in the project of designer Marina Govorushko. In addition, such partitions are very practical - only the outlines of things are distinguishable behind the facades.

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31. Bedroom design with built-in wardrobes
Project authors Ekaterina Svanidze and Ekaterina Lyubarskaya divided a small and elongated room into several zones. Thus, a walk-in wardrobe appeared: thanks to the built-in wardrobes in the room, the storage issue was resolved.

Yulia Kirpichova

32. Dressing room in the bedroom on the balcony
At the request of the hostess, designer Yulia Kirpichova provided a wide bed, and there was almost no space left in the bedroom. Because of this, the storage systems were taken out to the loggia: a wardrobe for dresses was placed on the right, and a tall chest of drawers on the left.

Berphin Interior

33. Wardrobe as a showcase
Who said that clothes should be hidden? In the interior for the fashionista, designers Zina Broyan and Inna Tedjoeva put two transparent blocks that look more like shop windows. Glazed storage systems help to focus on the hostess's wardrobe, and one of the cabinets separates the bedroom from the bathroom.

Design Studio of Marina Kutuzova "Details"

34. Open wardrobe in a small bedroom
In order not to overload the light and airy interior with wardrobes, designer Marina Kutuzova made an open dressing room in the bedroom. For apartment owners who only spend their holidays here, such a storage system is enough.

Ksenia Bobrikova. Xenia Design Studio

35. Instead of facades - curtains
Designer Ksenia Bobrikova provided open shelves and drawers in the bedroom, which can be easily hidden from prying eyes with textiles. A typical cornice is hidden under a horizontal beam girded with leather straps.

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> Bedroom > Dressing room in the bedroom - tips for what it should be! 77 photos of the finished dressing room design.

A bedroom with walk-in closet is the dream of many people who own their own home.

A great chance to get ample space to store your personal wardrobe, without much harm to the interior of the room.

The calculation of the bedroom and wardrobe is done on the skillful filling of the area and requires a thorough calculation, which ultimately ensures the convenience and comfortable use of the bedroom.

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How to make a dressing room in the bedroom?

So how to make a dressing room in the bedroom (photo), choose the best size, place systems for storage and storage of personal belongings.

Bedroom wardrobes are available in two versions:

  • A small area of ​​the bedroom, separated by a plasterboard partition, sliding structures and decorative screens.
  • Wardrobe built into the wall, enclosing a piece of the area of ​​​​the room, with vertical compartments for clothes located inside to a construction depth of 40 to 90 centimeters. It all depends on the desire of the customer.

What is the design of the dressing room in the bedroom:

  • A place where you hang long and short things on hangers, its depth is at least 50, 60 centimeters.
  • Shelves for shoes or stands should be 30 to 40 centimeters deep.
  • Linen shelves, preferably a separate closet, the depth should be at least 40 centimeters, and the width should be at least 80 centimeters.
  • Bedside tables with drawers, various shelves and baskets for all sorts of small things.
  • Hanger for belts and ties.
  • A mirror that is best placed inside the dressing room doors.
  • Optionally, an ironing board can be integrated.

To get a good and spacious dressing room in the bedroom, you need to allocate for this business at least 1.5 to 2.0 square meters of living space.

Such a dressing room in a small bedroom is too large in size, in this case it is best to choose a built-in wardrobe.

You also need to think in advance how to place lamps and lights.

How to choose a place for a dressing room

First of all, you need to properly plan the design of the room. Determine the location of the bed, and only after that start planning how to make a dressing room in the bedroom.

In narrow, but elongated rooms, part of the bedroom is simply fenced off, resulting in a leveled area. In square rooms, a built-in wardrobe is installed near the head of the bed, sometimes with a transition to the adjacent wall.

Corner dressing room in the bedroom will allow you to load the area of ​​the room to the maximum. Storage space in a typical living space is always allocated on the sides of the entrance to the room, a partition made of chipboard or drywall is installed above the door.

The structure thus obtained is trimmed from nutria with all kinds of shelves, drawers and stands. Installing doors outside. In a small bedroom, a dressing room is also possible, but only in a very truncated version.

Doors, even those made of glass, must be discarded. All the space allocated for the dressing room will be occupied by open shelves and racks; it is also appropriate to place a mobile hanger here. Thus, a small dressing room in the bedroom turned out.

Bedroom wardrobe design

Bedroom wardrobe is a rather large design, massive doors look heavy and are suitable for large rooms.

To smooth the feeling, you need to unmistakably design the dressing room in the bedroom.

  • mirrors and glasses of various colors create perspective;
  • panels and plastic facilitate massive details, they are best matched to the color of the walls;
  • various patterns on the mirrors will visually give the room a more colorful look;

The layout of the wardrobe in your bedroom must be fully calculated, if you also want to create a private office, in this case you need to plan the workplace.

More ideas

If suddenly you have a desire to fence off and ennoble a good economic corner, this can be done in the simplest way.

It is necessary to enclose part of the living area with furniture or plastic panels, which can be easily fixed with a 40x40 mm beam.

The facade can also be finished with plastic by installing sliding doors or by hanging a beautiful curtain.


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