Wardrobe with their own hands: options, sizes. Walk-in closet. Wardrobe

Wardrobe-wardrobe - an integral part of any apartment or private house. No matter how small a dwelling, people always find a place for the chest or his older brother. After all, this is the most important place for storing not only clothes, but also various items (home accounting, boxes of equipment, shoes, etc.). Today you can not only buy a ready-made wardrobe, but also order furniture according to individual parameters. We suggest that you learn how you can make a wardrobe yourself.

Wardrobe or closet?

Many people, when they hear the word "dressing room", imagine a room full of shelves and clothes hangers with clothes and shoes. In fact, it can even be a niche. By the way, it can be done on the spot where you plan to put a normal cabinet. Wardrobe, which you get, will be much more spacious and roomy. And visually it will not "eat" precious space. In other words, an ordinary wardrobe can serve as a dressing room.

The process of creating a wardrobe with your own hands is not fast. It consists of such stages as:

• Choice of location;
• Measurement of dimensions;
• Creating a layout and drawings;
• Selection and purchase of materials;
• Assembly of wardrobe.

Storage Features

Did you notice that when you open the door of an ordinary closet, from there comes some flavor? This is because there is no ventilation in the usual wardrobes. In a modern wardrobe, the air ventilation system is an indispensable condition for the design of the cabinet. Do not need complicated and intricate systems. It is enough that there is natural ventilation. And then there will be no smell of mustiness and other amber. Ventilation can be implemented by indenting the doors from the top of the cabinet, creating special slots or creating a small ventilation hole.

You also need to think over the lighting. If the wardrobe is made by the hands is shallow, then you can do without light. But if the wardrobe is wider than the usual closet, then for convenience it is necessary to conduct wiring for at least one point lamp.

Ventilation and lighting are important. But the main point is the organization of the storage system. You can make one of the following types of wardrobe yourself:

• rack;
• Cloakroom;
• pencil case;
• niche.

The storage structures for each species are different. Somewhere suspended clothing can be stored only on retractable rods, somewhere the usual is provided. In the dressing room can be boxes or shelves. All this depends not only on desires, but also on the possibilities of the room and the size of the structure itself.

Materials

Doing your own wardrobe, you yourself choose what materials you will use. By the way, you can save on this item. After all, even those who already have homes can go to the course.

The best material for the basis of the construction are wooden sheets (chipboards). They are able to withstand the load of the structure, and also has a number of useful properties. Among them - the absorption of moisture and its gradual return.

If you need dock doors, it is better to buy new material. For internal filling, the sheets of particleboard, which are at hand (for example, from an old wardrobe) , are suitable . By the way, many shops have a free service for cutting material. So already on the spot you can cut a tree, and at home it will only be necessary to assemble the structure.

What will be the dressing room - the size of the structure

The size of the smallest dressing room is from 1.2 to 1.5 square meters. Meter. That is, it is a rectangle with one side equal to 1.2 or 1.5 meters, and the other one is 1 meter. By the way, there is one trick that will allow putting more things in a small dressing room. Just make it angular, not rectangular. Most often with a width of 1 meter customers choose the length of the cabinet from 2 to 2.5 meters. In this wardrobe will fit a lot of things, and the area it will occupy almost the same as a three-winged wardrobe.

In addition to the dimensions, you need to know more and other parameters of the cabinet:

• The height of the compartment for outer clothing ranges from 100-150 cm from the floor to the level of the bar. Plus, you need to throw another 10 cm from the bar to the top crossbar.
• Height shoe and hat shelves - from 10 cm.
• Linen shelves in height usually make from 250 to 450 mm.

The depth of the wardrobe for clothes is from 65 to 100 cm. Typically, this is enough to ensure that the hangers are functionally located, and the doors are normally closed.

Knowing such parameters, you can easily understand the size of the cabinet and what the project will look like.

Wardrobe layout

Any wardrobe room should consist of at least two compartments - for hanging clothes and for folded. That is, one will have a bar for hangers, and in the other - shelves and / or drawers.

As for the penultimate element, it is best to buy special iron shelves for cloakrooms. They look like a lattice, so the clothes will be well ventilated. But if you are an adherent of the vertical way of storing things, it's better to stop at the classical version of the shelves - from the EAF.

Boxes can also be bought ready-made in the store or ordered to be assembled. But they are easy enough to do by yourself. To create them, you will need sheets of chipboard and plywood, which will go to the bottom. The saw can be ordered in the same place where you buy the material. It is convenient when drawers are put forward on rollers. So do not forget to buy this mechanism.

Additional internal elements

Today it is easy enough to make a wardrobe yourself, because you can buy everything separately, including additional accessories for storing various things.

There are the following devices for the organization and storage of clothing and other items of the wardrobe:

• Horizontal skirts and trousers: have the form of cross bars, which are fixed on special guides. Sometimes they also have clips. On these slats you can easily hang skirts and trousers. Things will hang exactly. The system is pushed forward, making it easy to hang and remove clothing.
• Vertical hangers for skirts and trousers: look like a hanger with several crossbeams, located one under the other. Such a system is characterized by a lower price and a compact way of placement.
• Horizontal and vertical tie hanger. The principle is similar to trousers and skirts. Only hangers for ties are much narrower.
• Retractable brackets for clothes hangers. This is a more expensive alternative to the usual bars. Ideal when you have a narrow dressing room. The dimensions of this bracket are small, but thanks to the sliding system it is possible to place a large amount of stuff in the depth of the cabinet.
• Pantograph. This bar, which has the ability to go down. Great option to make two levels of hangers. This way you can use the cabinet space to the very top, while getting things, you do not have to walk behind a stool or stairs. The system of such storage is equipped with a special handle, pulling which you can lower the bar. True, the pantograph has a weight limit of up to 18 kilograms.
• Various storage systems for shoes. It can be a special mini-chest of drawers, pendant organizers, hooks and hangers with clothes pegs, hooks and so on. You can find an option for any purse and for any size wardrobe.

Doors

Sliding wardrobe room takes up less space than a closet with doors. And it's not about the size of the wardrobe. Just such a cabinet can be placed even in the narrowest place, you will still have access to its contents. After all, for sliding doors do not need a place to open, as in the case with the doors. Therefore, this option of closing and opening the wardrobe is especially appropriate in corridors, hallways and small bedrooms.

Also, when using sliding doors, there is a wide choice of cabinet design. You can choose a mirror surface, thereby using a trick with a visual extension of the space, or order photo printing on the door, or come up with any other way to decorate. Here everything depends on your fantasies, wishes and financial possibilities.

The opening flaps also have their advantages. One of them is that you can make the door-shutters. Then the issue of ventilation will disappear.

Creating a Project

How will the design of the wardrobe room, depends on many factors: the size of the space allocated to the cabinet, the features of the design, the storage system option.

So, first, decide on the place where you put the wardrobe. Drawings of the future project directly depends on whether the cabinet will stand under the wall, or it will be made in an existing niche, additional walls and a top cover are needed or not, and so on.

When the place is chosen, decide on such a question: what will be the doors. The valves can open or slip away on special guides. If the doors are opened, then they need more space. Equally, as for drawers.

Drawing a draft of your ideal wardrobe, go to the creation of a working sketch. It is necessary to clearly calculate the depth and height of the cabinet, as well as the height of each compartment and drawer. This can be done based on the recommended parameters, which were mentioned above.

Decide on the layout of the wardrobe. Calculate how much for your needs you need boxes, shelves, shoe compartments, the size of the bar and other accessories (with what additional storage compartments we have already seen above). Also, try to imagine where it will be most convenient for you to use certain storage systems. For example, it's better to place boxes in the left corner, and a bar for placing outer clothing and costumes on the right.

Tip: when drawing up your wardrobe drawing, use ready-made plans, which were developed by professionals. Sometimes it's easier to fix something than to draw everything from scratch.

Design and implementation in specific examples

The dressing room plays an important role, but still remains an auxiliary room. Therefore, the main principle in creating a wardrobe design is - we will make it so that it is not noticeable. Hence the peculiarities of the choice of the place under the cabinet, and its appearance.

As a rule, the wardrobe project is developed at the beginning of the repair, and its design - at the very end. When the stylistics of the whole room is already understood, the main palette is defined and so on.

As for the features of the appearance of the dressing room, which depend on the place of its implementation, we will consider the specific examples below.

Wardrobe from the pantry or any other niche

The cloakroom with its own hands from the pantry is the simplest option you can think of. The question of location and size goes to the side. It remains only to think about the ventilation and lighting system, as well as the option of bundling. Also it turns out very much to save on materials - the box of the cabinet already exists, and it is very solid, you need to buy only a tree for shelves and additional accessories for storing, and also make doors.

This wardrobe can be created not only in the pantry, but also in the glassed-in loggia or in the niches in the walls. The principle of work in these places is the same as in the arrangement of the cloak-room in the pantry.

Cloakroom

This option will be slightly more expensive than the first, but it will be more optimal. After all, most of the storerooms are located in the hallway, and there it is not always convenient to make a dressing room. Therefore, it is better to assemble a wardrobe in the bedroom. True, if the room for sleep is less than 16 square meters, then there is almost no room for such a cabinet.

The embodiment of the wardrobe corner can be seen in the photo above. As you can see, the storage compartments are placed on the walls in the corner of the room, and the doors are fixed on the sides. In the creation of such a cloakroom a minimum of auxiliary materials is used.

Wardrobe-pencil case

A pencil case is a narrow and high cabinet. It takes up enough space, so it is suitable for small rooms. An example of the implementation of such a cabinet can be the placement of a wardrobe on the sides of the bed (instead of bedside tables).

The interior of the wardrobe-pencil case differs slightly. No, the compartment with shelves and drawers remains the same. But to store outerwear, blouses, trousers, skirts, dresses and other things that are better to be stored in a suspended form, you will have to buy a retractable bar.

By the way, I'll open the door openly, since there is no space for sliding. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a place for their discovery.

Rack

Wardrobe-shelving - a classic version of the design of cabinets. Materials for its creation are the most, as it is necessary to make the side walls - the basis of the wardrobe. But with the bundling and internal stuffing, things are much simpler here. Even you can save something. For example, make only the compartments for shelves and a regular bar, and give up other accessories and designs.

It is worth noting that when creating a wardrobe-rack all the profiles and guides, to which all the filling of the cabinet is fixed, are attached to the wall. Therefore, it must be made of concrete or brick, and not of plasterboard. Since the load on the profiles and the guide is very large. Drywall simply can not cope with this task.

As for the exterior design, wardrobes-racks are usually made with sliding doors. And, as it was written above, they can be ordered absolutely any kind. Therefore, these wardrobes are perfectly discharged to any room, without attracting much attention.