To place clothes of all family, footwear, accessories, the sports equipment is not obligatory to allocate the whole room for storage. Correctly organized wardrobe compartment which can be ordered in a workshop will help to cope with the organization of space or to make with own hands.
Wardrobe: what they are
Clothes with a convenient storage system – universal option for the small apartment. It will successfully replace numerous and not too convenient cabinets, dressers, mezzanines. The choice of a configuration and the size depends on many parameters:
- quantities of clothes, footwear and accessories which need to be placed;
- existence in the apartment of niches, storerooms and other utility rooms;
- general interior;
- preferences of the owner.
Before starting drawing up the sketch, it is necessary to define what objects prevail in clothes. It is more convenient to place long dresses, fur coats, jackets and jackets on brackets. Knitwear is stacked on open shelves or in boxes, for storage of linen, scarfs, tights special baskets are necessary. The certain place is required for hangers on which skirts and trousers are placed. It is necessary to think over the place for headdresses and bags, to organize the closed or open regiments for footwear. The bulky sports equipment is placed in separate compartments.
House wardrobe can be made in a view:
- cabinet case;
- niches with blinds or doors;
- rack system;
Angular wardrobe will be suitable for the small apartment with a lack of free space. The standard sizes – 1 m in width and 2-2.5 in length. Despite the modest sizes, such design is much more capacious than a normal cabinet. Besides it looks is more modern and fits practically into any interior.
Material selection and design
House wardrobe it is the best of all to make of a tree. It is not obligatory to buy expensive materials, it is possible to use the remains of a bar, boards and wood-shaving plates, construction hypermarkets sell them at minimum prices. Will help to saw boards according to in advance made measurements in shop too.
Among advantages there is a chipboard:
- affordable price;
- ability to absorb excess moisture;
- durability;
- attractive appearance.
For finishing wardrobe it is possible to use elements from old cabinets: railing, regiments, doors. Except normal oar doors it is possible to make sliding, as sliding wardrobes. Not less interesting option – wooden or plastic blinds. If the clothes are organized in a niche or the storeroom, the door can be replaced with a curtain from the dense tapestry material matching on color walls.
How to make wardrobe with own hands
Before starting construction, it is necessary to make the drawing. Standard depth of a clothes cabinet – from 65 to 100 cm. Such sizes will help to place freely hangers and regiments, doors will be well closed.
The size of office for outerwear - 150 cm from a floor to a crossbeam for placement of hangers. Height of shelves for knitwear and linen fluctuates from 250 to 450 mm. It is inexpedient to do higher regiments, piles of clothes will turn out too bulky, will difficult keep order in a cabinet. Height of shelves for footwear and hats begins from 10 cm. That things were not rumpled and did not warp, for everyone create an individual cell. It is possible to place in the same offices also bags.
Having determined the sizes wardrobe, it is necessary to evaluate space near it. If the room very close, is better to select not oar, but sliding doors. In such room it is better to refuse drawers or baskets, having limited to open regiments.
According to the made measurements the sketch is formed. On it height, width and depth of each element surely is affixed, places for accessories and other details are noted. It is obligatory to define precisely the necessary number of shelves, boxes, hangers and also to understand from what party it is more convenient to place them. For example, it is better to install a bar for hangers on the right, and compartments with regiments – at the left. The shoe compartment is placed with edge or in the lower part of clothes, for bags and seasonal clothes the place is allocated to cells above.
It is not obligatory to make the plan from scratch. It is much more convenient to use the ready drawing made by the professional, having made to it individual additions.
Most of all material is required for clothes of rack type. Boards will be necessary for walls, a floor, a ceiling part and doors. Internal elements (emphasis and bars) fasten directly to a wall. It should be rather strong, brick or concrete. Easy plasterboard partitions will not sustain loading.
If the storage system is organized in a niche, it is necessary to make only doors on a frame, regiments and boxes. The wardrobe corner will manage cheap too. All storage systems are fixed on walls, doors are installed sideways. More difficult option – sliding panels which at the same time serve as the place for storage. In their internal part install regiments dyal shoes, bags and other small objects.
It is the most convenient to collect a wooden framework of clothes by means of self-tapping screws. If natural wood is used, it is processed antibacterial impregnation or mordant, and then carefully dried. If the clothes become during repair, the framework is mounted at once, and are engaged in finishing and internal equipping after the end of repair work.
Internal equipment: options and ideas
Standard wardrobe consists of several offices. In one place outerwear, suits and dresses, in another install boxes or open regiments for knitwear and linen. Instead of normal boxes it is convenient to use easy wire baskets.
If it is decided to install several cabinets cases, one of them can be equipped with regiments, and in another to mount a bar for hangers. The most available and convenient option is to use ready internal elements from the facilitated metal. They are easily mounted, do not require a special care, do not rust and do not break. However metal baskets and mesh regiments are pleasant not to all. Those who prefers classics should making regiments and boxes of chipboard or a bar.
Very important point in any wardrobe – lighting. There are special mini-lamps which place in a ceiling part. They should not be too powerful, energy saving bulbs with the system of autoshutdown will approach.
For convenient placement of clothes and accessories there are different devices:
- System from horizontal levels with clips for skirts and trousers. Can move forward and move, depending on the size contains from 5 to 10 articles of clothing.
- Horizontal or vertical hanger for ties. Looks similarly, but differs in the smaller sizes.
- Sliding brackets for clothes. The alternative to a usual bar for hangers, allows to place twice more things.
- The bar for clothes falling down (pantograph). On it it is possible to hang out clothes in 2 tiers, moving a bar by means of the special handle. Is not suitable for very heavy clothes (for example, things from skin and a real fur).
- Suspended organizers for trifles. Can be made of plastic or fabric, take place in any free space. Suspended baskets, mini-dressers, special hooks for bags or boots enter this category.
Correctly organized wardrobe – pledge orders and clothes of a faultless type. Having installed a framework, it is possible to change internal equipment depending on requirements and tastes.