your powder room....

[Miss Stella]

Very few of us have a personal "powder room".....so are you one of the fortunate few?
Or, like me, you have a "small place" that you call your "powder room"?

(Pictures in your post get you extra brownie points!)

 

[Miss Sis]

Not sure what you mean, exactly? I have a Dressing Room. When you say Powder Room, I'm thinking of the Bathroom, as Americans say! LOL.

 

[Miss sofia]

Yes me too! I always assumed it meant a bathroom. I have a boudoir though.

 

[bunnyb.gal]

Isn't it a euphemism for the bathoom?

The OP mentions "small place" which makes me think of "petit coin" (French for bathroom), so maybe that is what she meant?

 

[katiesparkles]

i actually just bought furniture for my very own powder/dressing room! due to work i didn't have time to set it all up yet, but i'm beyond happy. it's a four piece bedroom set (a tall boy dresser, a chest of drawers with a mirror, a make up vanity & a bed) from approx. 1926 - the bed will go into my bedroom but the rest will stay in the currently unused room of the apartment - which will be allll mine. haha.

i lucked out on the apartment, my husband and i pay a ridiculous price for an apartment this big in a fairly good neighborhood but that's just how RI is!

i can't wait to set everything up tomorrow afternoon and start decorating!! will post pictures once it's all done!

 

[Miss Stella]

So very sorry...yes, I meant boudoir!
I have a small corner in my bedroom I want to fix up so I was curious as to what you consider "required" furnishings.

 

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

Barbara Hulanicki's Dressing room photographed for UK Vogue in 1975

 

[Miss sofia]

So very sorry...yes, I meant boudoir!
I have a small corner in my bedroom I want to fix up so I was curious as to what you consider "required" furnishings.

If you are limited for space, i would suggest a dressing table and stool. I find it invaluable that i can accomodate, lingerie, makeup and jewellery in one space. Plus you can make it look really pretty There is a thread on dressing table somewhere, with loads of fab pictures.

I would also suggest perhaps a small screen. Always a useful item to have. Very femme fatale to get dressed or undressed behind. Plus you can hang clothes or jewellery on it too. You can pick them up reasonably at most thrift or antique centres. I have had a few over the years, which i have bought in a fairly tatty condition and then recovered with vintage fabrics or decoupage.

A free-standing, cheval mirror, is pretty useful too.

 

[Grant Fan]

When I get mine clean.... It is a crazy mess right now. I will take a picture of it.

 

[Miss Stella]

Barbara Hulanicki's Dressing room photographed for UK Vogue in 1975

I may need to knock out a wall......

 

[Miss Stella]

If you are limited for space, i would suggest a dressing table and stool. I find it invaluable that i can accomodate, lingerie, makeup and jewellery in one space. Plus you can make it look really pretty There is a thread on dressing table somewhere, with loads of fab pictures.

I would also suggest perhaps a small screen. Always a useful item to have. Very femme fatale to get dressed or undressed behind. Plus you can hang clothes or jewellery on it too. You can pick them up reasonably at most thrift or antique centres. I have had a few over the years, which i have bought in a fairly tatty condition and then recovered with vintage fabrics or decoupage.

A free-standing, cheval mirror, is pretty useful too.

I have mirrored doors in my corner area but there isn't took tor a screen...hardly room for the bed!

But back to knocking out a wall......

 

[sheeplady]

Why is it I look at that picture and the first thing I think is "she must have a maid" because otherwise there would be no way to keep all that hanging jewelry clean?

 

[katiesparkles]

mirrored jewelry is such a pain in the butt, too. i'd get fingerprints all over everything!

 

[Miss Sis]

I'm thinking that mirrored stool does *not* look comfortable!

 

[lauryn]

I may need to knock out a wall......

Wow!!! That is huge and full of a lot of jewelery and other trinkets! I love it!

 

[Antje]

I have since a couple of days a beautyfull vanity table in my bedroom where I stack all my hair and make up things, I will take pictures of it when I have more light

 

[Lucky Starr]

Hello ladies, I'm new to the Lounge. I'm having fun looking at all the post and all the lovely goods. I have to say if someone were to offer me that mirrored vanity I wouldn't mind one bit. So very glamorous!

 

[Miss sofia]

I'm thinking that mirrored stool does *not* look comfortable!

Most definetely! You would need a cushion, especially if you were sat on it in your slip, or you would be sliding all over the place. Not a good look!

 

[magnolia76]

Christina Aguilera's dressing room. Love the colors and curtains! And all the Louboutins...

 

[Antje]

Wow!!! those shoes amazing!!!