Last week I mentioned wanting a lightweight ladder for my dressing room and a very kind reader (thank you Brandon @ d.coop!) pointed me to the Inreda from Ikea. It was exactly what I had in mind so I hightailed it down to Ikea the next day and voila, here it is now in my dressing room:
It’s a silver/gray which I want to zhuzh up at some point but for now it’s great just having a ladder! Thanks again, Brandon!
I don’t know why but I keep coming up with new ideas for my dressing room. To recap, it currently looks like this:
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m considering changing the wallpaper to this darker one:
Thanks for all of your feedback on it. I’m still undecided and really appreciate hearing your thoughts.
The other change I’m considering is the dresser. The white one you see is the basic Ikea Malm. I’ve always liked it for its simplicity and clean lines but lately I’ve been wanting an upgrade. The other day I saw this chest:
It’s covered in grasscloth. I. Love. Grasscloth. So that made me think instead of getting a new dresser, why not try covering the Malm in grasscloth? It’s the perfect size for the space (which isn’t easy to find) and is in really good condition. So, if I were to change the wallpaper to the black one, I think a gray or tan on the dresser would look good:
The final thing I want to do is get some sort of ladder because I can’t reach the upper shelves. Something like this:
I’m short, too, Eva. I know I don’t want to hassle with installing rails. The room is broken up with a door in the middle so rails wouldn’t work anyway. So what I want is one that is fairly light that I can move around myself. I have no idea where to even start looking so if you have any ideas, please share!
(Last photo is from InStyle)
Did I ever show you this wallpaper? I don’t even know who makes it – it was one of those clearance items that I happen to stumble on at Lowe’s a couple of years ago. I still really love it – especially the hand painted look of it – and I’m itching to put it up somewhere.
I had thought about putting it in my dressing room but ended up going a different route. If you missed it, this is what I ended up using:
I still like the paper that’s in there but I may be ready for a change. What do you think? Should I leave well enough alone?
I’ve got a few other ideas for the dressing room too. More on that tomorrow.
(Photos: FROM THE RIGHT BANK)
I completely forgot to tell you last week that I finally got around to replacing the god-awful florescent light in my closet/dressing room. So it went from this:
to this:
Sooooo much better, don’t you think? This is the chandelier I told you about a while ago. I’ve always liked this type of light but had no place for one – until now.
And the obligatory detail shot. If you missed the first sneak peek of the dressing room, you can see it here.
(Photos: From the Right Bank)
I’ve always wanted my own dressing room. What woman doesn’t, right? Well, I guess I finally paid my dues after years of living with tiny closets because I now have one. It’s not huge but I’m not complaining!
It started out as an almost bare room with just one rack:
I called in the professionals and had it customized. Money very well spent IMO. (You’ll see what they did below.)
The room is an odd shape with one wall that protrudes. I put a white Ikea Malm dresser there and it fit perfectly. It also blended in nicely since everything was done in white:
Then the movers came in and literally dumped everything in it:
Worst. Movers. Ever.
Well, bit by bit, it got tidied up:
(You can see some of the rods and shelves that were installed in this photo.)
Just before we went on vacation, we wallpapered the one free wall:
The wallpaper is one of the ones I had forgotten I had which I posted about here.
Then we hung the mirror that we used to have in our old bedroom. (I got it at the Seattle Design Center a few years ago.)
And voila, this is the view now as you enter the room.
The little glass lamp is from Anthropologie.
It’s hard to get a good shot of the entire room but here is one side of it:
(Yes, all my clothes are black. Just about.)
I still have a little more organization to do and I’m also going to hang this cute chandelier that I found at an estate sale that I happen to drive by recently:
There’s a horrible florescent light in there now. I know! Why??
Once that’s done, I’ll take some photos of it and the other side of the room too.
I feel completely spoiled and incredibly lucky. No more excuses for being and looking like a slob!
(Photos: From the Right Bank)
I have fantasized about having a dressing room forever and in the new house I got my wish. It’s not nearly as grand as Aerin Lauder’s (above) but I’m thrilled to finally have one. There’s one blank wall in there that I’ve been wanting to wallpaper but thus far, I hadn’t been able to decide on one.
Well, the other day I was unpacking some more boxes (yes, I’m still unpacking) and I came across these papers that I had forgotten I had:
The story on these is that about a year or so ago, I was at the local Lowe’s in Seattle and saw that they were clearing out a bunch of their wallpaper. I had no need for any of it but they were practically giving it away so I grabbed the ones that I thought I might use some day.
I think this blue/taupe floral and scroll pattern one is perfect for the dressing room. And to think I didn’t even have to leave the house for it! Sometimes, it pays to be a hoarder. 
I plan on tackling this project in the next week or two so stay tuned!
I have finally cleaned up and organized my dressing room and all it needs is the perfect wallpaper for one of the walls. It’s my big opportunity to get as floral, pink, and girly as I want since it’s my own space. I’ve been searching high and low and I have completely fallen in love with Cowtan & Tout‘s “Arabella” that I saw in the May issue of Elle Decor.
So I went on the Cowtan & Tout’s website but I couldn’t find it. But I did find a few other patterns that I also love.
Manuel Canovas’ Agra
Manuel Canovas’ Fontainbleau:
and Cowtan & Tout’s Contessa:
All of these papers are available to the trade only. Grrr! Are there any designers out there who wants to help a blogger out? I just need one roll. 
*Update: A lovely local designer has come to my rescue. Yipee!
I really can’t complain about my closet situation. I have a dressing area in addition to a walk-in closet (that I co-opted all for myself) and an armoire. What more can a girl ask for?
Well, for one thing, shelves. Lots and lots of shelves for shoes and bags like so:
And a little wallpaper. There’s just something about wallpaper and dressing rooms that go together.
Getting back to the shelves . . . I’d like an entire wall of shelves with extra room for fashion books, accessories and some pretty displays.
And finally, what do I want in every room? A chandelier, pretty rug and chair, of course. So there, you have it. My idea of a dream closet. I think this is going to have to be one of my projects in the near future. What does your dream closet look like?
Have a great weekend, everybody. See you Monday!
(Photos: 1.via So Haute 2.via Purse Blog 3.via Desire to Inspire)
Somehow I ended up with like a million picture frames and a while back, I decided to either put them to use or toss them. I first gathered them all and sorted them by color. I then took all the silver ones and put photos from trips, wedding, etc. and hung them all in my dressing area. (I subscribe to the school of thought that people don’t want to see pictures of you when they come to your house.) I’m working on something big for the other side of this area this weekend. I think it’s one of my more brilliant ideas and I’m so excited, I can hardly stand it. Stay tuned . . .
(dominomag.com)
I decided my next project is going to be to pretty up my closet. And yes, I said “my” because I took over the entire walk-in closet/dressing room in our bedroom. In my defense, it’s not a *big* walk-in. Say, like this one, for example:
Thankfully, my closet is fairly organized already; I’ve been good about purging things from it on a fairly regular basis. But apparently I still have a lot of clothes. And shoes. And bags. I’d like to be able to see what I have and just generally get the entire closet to function better while making it more pleasing to the eye. Perhaps this weekend?
