Getting Ready Room Before and After

The closets in our home aren't really big enough for our combined wardrobe, so we decided to convert one of our spare bedrooms to a walk-in closet which we call the "getting ready" room. Having a room dedicated to a closet is actually quite nice. It keeps clothing and clutter our of your main bedroom and when one person has to get up earlier than the other for work, they can just go to the other room to get ready with out disturbing the other's sleep.

This makeover should have been a quick weekend project, but it turned into a stressful nightmare when we tore up the old laminate flooring and found a puddle of water on the subfloor tracking up the wall. After a bit of digging (read: removing a bunch of drywall and insulation) we found a hole in the side of our house, which could be traced back to a botched roof job by a fraudulent contractor. But that's a post for another time. The leak pushed back our project about two months, but it's all fixed up properly and the room is back together. Here is the before and after!

I wanted to have an area to do my makeup and hair since our main bathroom is so small and has no natural light, so Chris installed a light and some plugs next to my desk. The dresser, wardrobe, and desk all came from Ikea. The flooring is by Richmond Laminate in the colour Oak Rusty. You can learn how to lay laminate floor in our video here.

Storage boxes hold loose accessories, watches, lapel pins, and make up. We butted two different size Ikea Malm dressers together for additional drawer space.

We picked up this Hub Ladder by Umbra from SAM Design. 

We were too lazy to build our own floating shelf, but couldn't find a black prefab floating shelf in the city, so we bought a brown one and spray painted it flat black.

We also spray painted that chair black too. The previous bedroom had the tiniest little closet. We removed the doors and added some shelves and a closet rod to store bags, sweaters, and longer hang up items like long sweaters and jackets.

PAX wardrobes from Ikea hold most of our shirts and pants. The middle drawers have dividers for accessories while the bottom drawer is open for casual t-shirts, sweatpants, and leggings. We got the Grand Metro Pendant light by EQ3 from SAM Design.

These Super Living Uno hooks are also from SAM Design. We love the large scale! They come in a few different sizes.

If you want to see what inspired the look for this room you can check out our moodboard.