Our bedroom is small….like really small. It's one of those rooms that only has one solid wall. It has 3 doors and one window. It makes it very hard for room setup options. Now before we bought this place we splurged on a big old king sized bed (that I think we are still paying on) so downsizing the bed was not an option for me. Basically, we have too much stuff and not enough room. I tried a couple of room configurations that just wouldn't work because of one reason or another. A big problem in a lot of these was not being able to pull the dresser drawers out far enough. So off to IKEA we went.
I was thinking outside of the box here. My traditional husband however went right to the plain old dresser section. He looked at me like I was crazy when I said we need something that could function like a dresser without being an actual dresser. I wanted sliding doors of some sort to alleviate the pulling out space issue. So, we stumbled upon this storage cabinet with glass sliding doors. It was the perfect height. I loved the look of it, but could it function as a dresser?? Now my husband does all the laundry (yes, I am spoiled in that aspect) and he does not fold any of his own clothes. So, with glass doors, it would always look messy and I knew that would stress me out. It's the one thing I despise about our house being entirely open concept is that there is nowhere to hide the mess. By this point, the kids were tired, and I was overwhelmed so we left emptyhanded
That night I went home and looked around my room and just knew there had to be a better solution. We scoured the internet for the perfect dresser and oh we found some that were way outside of our little budget. I just kept going back to the same item I seen at IKEA. Finally, I thought of a compromise. I could simply frost the glass! This would allow me the sliding doors that would work in our room, as well as my husband the freedom to not fold his clothes without stressing me out. What a breakthrough. Back to Ikea we went to but this unit. While building it, I still had some concerns. We had 8 drawers in our old dresser, and this only had 5 shelves. Would it be large enough to fit our clothes? Would the frost cover enough to not make me lose my mind? The answer to the first question is a resounding yes. It has more space than our dresser due to the height of the shelves. I did 2 coats of frost in the worst conditions possible. I will admit it did not frost as well as I had pictured in my head but that is totally an error on my part and could be corrected when the weather warms up. It did cover enough for me to not be stressed out though.
We are one week in and so far, I am loving this upgraded dresser option which costs significantly less than a traditional dresser.
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