This is the second installment of my Dressing Room Tour.  In the first part, I showed you what the room looked like prior to painting and unpacking.  In the weeks following our move, I began sorting through clothes, shoes, pajamas, stored clothes, etc. etc. to thin out the herd a bit.  Then we built a wardrobe while I looked everywhere for curtains.  It was a slow process, but has been completely worth it to me.  My dressing room is my favorite room in the house!  I wish I could have all of you over for cocktails and manicures and fun stuff like that.

This is a bit of a picture-heavy post, complete with a video where I walk you through the room and show you a better look at the glittery, pink walls.  (They just don't translate well to photos.)  I'll have links to products I used in my room (or similar products) under the photos and any extra links at the bottom of the post.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by commenting on the post or emailing me.

Welcome to my Dressing Room!


The first thing you see as you walk in is a bookshelf full of pink, glittery trinkets.  The back of the bookshelf was covered with fabric when we first built it for our last place.  It holds fun odds and ends, gifts, photos, and the like.  The glittery pig was one I glittered myself recently.  I love the way it turned out!  My grandma made the little beaded angel for me quite a few years ago and the other things I have collected for a while.

The second shelf holds rings and bracelets, while the third shelf holds glittery sprays and powders.  The last two shelves have a few more tchotchkes, my fabric steamer (I use it more than an iron these days), and extra body lotions and sprays.




I recently found this great rug that fit so well with the colors and feel of the room.  I'm so happy to finally have a rug that really anchors everything.  I have been searching high and low for quite sometime.  Before we even found a house we loved, I was looking for curtains.  I decided my color scheme a couple years ago, but didn't begin the search for curtains until earlier this year. Wal-Mart had some fabulous ones that I was waiting to buy until we had the room ready.  When I went to buy them, they were all sold out. (Back in stock now, of course!)  Fortunately, these black and white ones were found a couple weeks later.  It was meant to be, I suppose.  The storage bench was bought a few years ago for our last place.  There was no space for it in our current living room, so it came here to live and serves me well.


I made these two display boards from stretched canvas, fabric, and ribbon trim.  They have been so useful in holding brooches and photos.  With the wardrobe spanning one entire wall, I didn't know where I was going to hang them.  After we brought in the bookcases, I used Command hooks to hang them on the ends of the bookcases.


A view of the room from the closet end.  The window looks out in the yard to my favorite tree and rose bushes.


My vanity table and beautification area. lol  If you want to learn how to make a vanity table for yourself, visit my tutorial post.  I started adding more of my "chubby girl art" finds and look forward to adding a lot more.



To the left of the vanity table is the other bookshelf.  It provides storage for the clothing iron, belts, boas, lip products, extra samples, brushes, and cleaners, and other odds and ends.  I'm still working on this area to make it more aesthetically pleasing, but it works for me right now.


To the right of the vanity table is a smaller shelf with more jewelry, makeup, and beauty samples.  This table is easier to reach while I am doing my makeup, so I have it holding mostly beauty products.  The little radio has an iPad/iPod hookup and the sound is really great!  I can rock out while putting on my makeup, which is one of life's simple luxuries that I enjoy.  The lamp was a clearance find for $3.50, so I plan on adding some sparkle or feathers to the shade.


A view of the room from the window side.  The curtains are attached with sliders both in the closet and on the ceiling.  They work very well; the clips are really strong and latch on to the panels.


In the closet I have dresses, pants, leggings, and capris hanging up on the right side.  The left side has hoodies and lingerie.  Any new stuff I buy or Gwynnie Bee stuff I get goes on a hanger and into the closet so I can iron it and/or try it on.  The top of the closet houses a foot spa, winter gloves and hats, purses, clutches, and big hats.  The shelves below have purses by size, jeans by style, and the rest are clothes I wear around the house.

The containers you see there are home to flip flops, bras, sunglasses, tiaras and hats, cosmetic bags, nail-related stuff and miscellaneous things that didn't have another home.  Boots, sneakers, and shoes too big for the shoe boxes are lined up along the bottom of the closet.  My ironing board and full length mirror are all concealed in a little space to the left of the closet.





A look at the long wardrobe wall.  The big wardrobes and dresser are from Ikea.  They are very strong and haven't budged in holding all my clothes.  Each section is sorted by type first then by color.  I switched all my hangers from assorted plastic ones to these great velvet ones.  Tops do not slip off of these velvet hangers and they look so much better than all the various unmatching plastic ones.  Robes hang on hooks behind the dresser.

The shoe boxes are dollar boxes from Wal-Mart.  I took photos of my shoes with a similar background and printed them out onto shiny paper.  The photos are simply taped to the appropriate shoe box using masking tape.


After downsizing from a very large dresser to this smaller one, I had to get rid of a good amount of stuff.  Somehow I managed to fold everything in a way that allowed it to fit and, in the case of my PJs, allows me to see everything at a glance.  Everything gets used more this way as well.


Other shoes that wouldn't fit above the wardrobe get stored on top of the bookshelves.  All of my flats fit rather nicely along the top and are easily accessible.

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And if you want to see the room in action (and me acting like a super dork), check out the video below.  In my defense, it was late and I was super nervous.  lol




And if you have made it this far, Thank you!!  I hope you enjoyed looking at my room as much as I enjoyed creating it.  Now go make your own Oasis of Fabulousness!!