Imagine having your own dressing room. An entire room dedicated to clothes, shoes and makeup – and everything organised and coordinated neatly.
But for most people, finding the space is a barrier, and the cost of converting a room would be off-putting. But one savvy woman managed to transform her spare room into the most enviable dressing room, all for just £300.
Monika Bacanskaite, from Bridgwater, Somerset, had always dreamed of having a beautifully girly dressing and beauty room – so she made her own on a strict budget.
When the 22-year-old moved into a new home with two spare rooms, she set about transforming a dark and dull bedroom into a stunning, light-filled beauty room.
‘I have always dreamt about having my own dressing and beauty room – probably most girls dream about it so I wasn’t an exception really,’ the mum of one told LatestDeals.co.uk.
‘First of all I needed a spare room, so luckily when we moved into our new family home there were two spare rooms, so of course one of them was definitely meant to be my dressing room.
‘This room was painted in dark navy and red colours, so, first of all, I had to do three coats of paint to cover it all.’
The painting took Monika a couple of days. She didn’t have loads of time as she is also a mum and was juggling parenting responsibilities. Luckily, her partner chipped in to help.
‘The colour I chose to paint it in was white as I just love light colours: it gives me a clean feeling and everything goes with it in my opinion,’ she says.
‘Once the painting works were done I was able to start organising where everything would be.
‘I was so excited as I knew that I would be able to display my collections of makeup, so they weren’t kept in drawers anymore and anyone who comes around could have a little look, and mostly I would be admiring them just seeing all laid out.’
Because of lockdown, Monika couldn’t visit any shops to pick out her furniture, so she opted for online shopping and found lots of things on sites like Amazon.
‘I started ordering bits that I thought would be useful, like wardrobe rails, hangers, shelves and so on,’ says Monika.
‘I already had two Argos bookcases that were the perfect size for displaying my makeup, so I was thinking about how to connect them together to make it into one walk-in wardrobe piece.
‘I didn’t want to spend hundreds of pounds on IKEA walk-in wardrobes, so I thought I would build my own one.
‘I bought a wardrobe rail from Amazon and connected with it these two bookcases, so that made a perfect place to hang my jackets and a whole unit became stable!
‘I had to drill the rail into the sides of the bookcases. I added an Argos cube storage unit in the middle of these two bookcases. I store my shoes here, and it fits just perfectly.’
The last thing she added was a shelf on the top of the bookcases to make them come together as one piece, and she says they turned out great.
‘I purchased some stick-on LED lights off Amazon to stick them to the top of the bookcase shelves, so now the items I display there are looking even better. I am really happy how it turned out,’ she adds.
Next, Monika decided to update her basic dressing table. She had the idea to make some small shelves to surround her mirror, and a large shelf on top.
‘We had an old bathroom cabinet that I actually took apart to make these little shelves around my mirror. I painted them and it made great shelves so nothing was going to waste,’ she says.
‘The large shelf on the top of my mirror was from our TV unit. We didn’t use it, so I took this shelf and added it there. These shelves made even more displaying space for my items.
‘The stools for my dressing table I bought from The Range and they were perfect – just what I wanted. I fitted another wardrobe rail in between the bookcase and wall to have a place to hang my knee-high boots and handbags.’
To create the hangers she used clothes pins from Amazon.
‘In the end, I would roughly say I spent a maximum of £250 to £300, but that’s including the rug, dressing table, mirrors and storage units.’
Monika is delighted with how her stunning dressing room has turned out, and says the project kept her busy during the lockdown.
‘I didn’t really expect it to look this good. To be fair, since staying all day at home with a baby while my partner is at work and with no one visiting us I did get bored,’ she explains.
‘I needed at least a small break where I could just use my imagination and create, so decorating this room kept me entertained and I did really enjoy all the process, and it was so satisfying.
‘Once my family started complimenting my room, I felt so proud of what I had done, and I appreciate all the nice words everyone says.
‘It’s just my own little place where I can do whatever I want, especially since being a makeup artist I love having all my products laid out so I get inspired by seeing them on what look I want to create next.’
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source https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/08/mum-turns-dingy-bedroom-stunning-dressing-room-300-12960532/
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