Dresser Deficiency
Posted on May 16th, 2016
I want to take some time to bring attention to an important issue. It’s all around us, we see it on the internet and in magazines every day, but it is never addressed head on. I am talking, of course, about Dresser Deficiency.
The bloggers and interior designers who share inspirational images with us sleep in the most gorgeous, fluffiest beds, surrounded by bedside tables that always sport fresh flowers and hundreds of dollars of coffee table books, oversized Gray Malin prints hanging over their heads. But apparently they have no place to keep their clothes. We see fourteen photos of their end-of-bed bench, but nary a single dresser in sight. The lucky ones have large bedside tables (as shown above), but many of them only have butler trays next to their beds. Tragic. And for the record, that mirrored piece would be maybe enough to house my collection of workout tops. If I gave half of them away.
It looks like I will be moving to a new apartment in a few weeks, so I’ve become increasingly aware of this problem as I look for inspiration for our new place. The Style Me Pretty Living bedroom Pinterest board, for example, has about 1,000 pins, approximately 1% of which feature any substantive clothing storage options.
So I dug deep to find a few dressers done right. This was much, much harder than it sounds.
I have continued to be pleasantly surprised by my Ikea dresser— while it isn’t the perfect size for our new bedroom layout, nothing competes with the price + storage capacity! Once it is set up in our new place, I’ll be sure to show you how it looks, if for no other reason than to prove that I have a place to keep my clothes.
Please keep these storage-deprived bloggers and designers in your thoughts and prayers.
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