Organizing Your Wardrobe in the Bedroom

Wardrobes and the bedroom always go together.  The modern bedroom is not just your final abode to get your 8-hour slumber at the end of the day.  It’s also the place where you do your grooming and changing of clothes.  Even with walk-in closets and large bathrooms in large homes, changing your clothes are done in the bedroom.  For typical bedrooms in the average American home, a closet is a basic functional part of any bedroom and there are bedroom sets with furniture accessories that augment your closet in organizing you wardrobe and fashion accessories.

Armoires

A French word to describe what we commonly know as chest drawers and bureaus, armoires are the bedroom’s equivalent of your kitchen cupboard and are often larger than a bureau or chest drawer to serve like a mini-standing closet.  They have become a standard part of most bedroom sets.  They provide a good storage area to organize bedroom textile accessories like bed sheet linens, pillowcases and comforters as well as undergarments and other fashion accessories that your can store in any of its drawers.  If your closet is not large enough for your growing wardrobe, you’d be glad to have armoires.

Drawers

Drawers of bureaus commonly serve to house your undergarment and fabric fashion accessories.  They comes in varying heights and stacks of drawers with most high enough to accommodate a small TV set or small component type stereo set on top.  

The Closet

Your main wardrobe collection is best hang inside a closet.  Most bedrooms have them built-in as part of one side of the room while others are large enough you could walk into them; hence, you have walk-in closets.  They have many of the same features as armoires and drawers. Whether built-in or walk-in, the modern closet has pin lights that turn on automatically when you open the closet door. 

Dressers

More a necessity for the woman of the house, dressers have come standard furniture in the master’s bedroom and a growing girl’s bedroom.  The conventional dresser works just like a chest drawer or bureau that allows you to organize your underwear and apparel or fashion accessories like hankies, bandanas, bras and undergarments. But added to the functionality is accommodating your grooming and make-up kits.  A dresser won’t be  complete without a large half-body mirror framed in the same wood and styling as the dresser body.