Dressers are often overlooked in design, but they are worth considering because the right dresser can elevate a bedroom from practical to luxurious. If you don’t think you can fit a table, these chic tables, including small alcove options and sleek modern designs, might point you in the right direction.
Take back a corner. Tuck a small dresser into an alcove to turn wasted space into a practical space. By installing a table with mirrors in a recess and adding two slender shelves on top, the homeowner created a useful and beautiful makeup area without taking up too much valuable floor space.
Bridging the gaps. This neat dresser is a clever customization option. By bridging the small space between the two walls with drawer racks and tucking a low stool underneath, the homeowner created a practical area that maximized every inch of the room.
Ask a carpenter or builder to help make something similar in your own home.
Take advantage of sloping roofs. Since you’re usually seated when you’re using a dresser, the ceiling height doesn’t matter. Dressing tables can be installed well under sloping roofs or in awkwardly shaped corners. As long as there is enough lighting and wall space to hang mirrors, these areas will suffice.
Double. If you don’t have the space for both a dresser and a bedside table, you can combine them and place a wide table between the bed and the wall as shown. Just leave a little space for bedside essentials.
Have fun. This quirky dresser isn’t too serious and therefore adds a lot of character to this bedroom. It’s made from a vintage suitcase decorated with light bulbs, making it perfect for storing makeup, brushes, perfume bottles, and even vases. If that inspires you to make your own movie star dresser, look for vintage suitcases online or at flea markets.
Borrow space from a row of drawers. Under a sloping roof, low storage is an obvious choice, and leaving room for a dresser can elevate the height of this room and maximize views from the window.
If you’re in the planning stages of a bedroom redesign and you’ve already considered enclosed storage, see if there’s any way to recycle some space as a dresser.
Make it streamlined. Choose a stylish table like this one, and you’re ready to have a dresser and an open, airy look that you love. This table has pivot drawers that can be folded up when not in use, and an elongated “floating” top that helps add a sense of space to this corner.
Oversized mirrors. This dresser area feels grandiose, but upon closer inspection, the table itself is rather compact; Oversized mirrors bring drama to the space.
This is a great trick to use in small rooms where space is limited. Hang an oversized decorative mirror, tuck a curved console-style table underneath, and make room on the table for accessories and toiletries.
Take advantage of a chest of drawers. If you don’t have room for extra furniture, the surface area at the top of a chest of drawers may be the perfect space to place a “dresser”.
As this room demonstrates, even a small chest of drawers can be turned into a vanity. A simple wall-mounted mirror and a few carefully selected accessories create a pleasing vignette and provide a practical place to apply makeup and fix your hair.
Be a little more fun. This colourful chest of drawers offers plenty of styling opportunities, and such a surface is the perfect place to create a vertical dressing area. The key to a beautiful table is smart editing, so think carefully about which display items you want to keep. Flowers, your favorite perfume bottle, and a photo or two are all inside, but half-used makeup tubes and cotton ball bags are not.
To keep the clutter under control, collect several oversized glass jars, one for cotton balls, one for cosmetics, and one for other bits and pieces that tend to pile up.
