Accessorising Tips: Learn the Art of Styling Your Dressing Table
Explore these handy decorating tips to light up your vanity area
If your space-sapping dresser or vanity feels dowdy and uninspiring, try one of these covetable decorating styles to bring about a welcome renaissance. Injecting a little ingenuity to a vanity’s compact dimensions will boost your room’s decor quotient and your mood. Tune into the tones of the season, your favourite accoutrements and your tastes to create a shrine for an indulgent primping process, without skimping on style. Take a look at these options to get started along the path to styling success.
Don’t restrict yourself to an archetypical setup
Let your signature style translate seamlessly into your vanity area. This dresser makes a compelling case for individuality, where a boho-chic setting is styled with vintage pieces, distressed finishes and a repurposed board used as a jewellery organiser.
Let your signature style translate seamlessly into your vanity area. This dresser makes a compelling case for individuality, where a boho-chic setting is styled with vintage pieces, distressed finishes and a repurposed board used as a jewellery organiser.
As seen in this image, a repurposed suitcase used as a dresser can evoke every wanderlust’s longing to travel, while an unpretentious picture frame helps banish a blank wall to get out of the door fashionably on time.
Make it versatile
If you have space constraints, create a multi-functional vanity that doubles as a night-stand or even an informal home office. The bijou vanity in this boudoir sits elegantly between the bed and a book shelf, making it an ideal reading and primping corner.
If you have space constraints, create a multi-functional vanity that doubles as a night-stand or even an informal home office. The bijou vanity in this boudoir sits elegantly between the bed and a book shelf, making it an ideal reading and primping corner.
Add a pop of colour
Thaw the monochromatic dominance of a neutral-toned bedroom with a little help from vibrant shades. Let the season or your favourite colour be your inspiration – small doses of tangerine added in this space echo the tints of tulips, chrysanthemums and geraniums for a spring-ready vanity.
Find out how to energise your home with colour
Thaw the monochromatic dominance of a neutral-toned bedroom with a little help from vibrant shades. Let the season or your favourite colour be your inspiration – small doses of tangerine added in this space echo the tints of tulips, chrysanthemums and geraniums for a spring-ready vanity.
Find out how to energise your home with colour
Colour-coordinate with the room
Punctuate the area with a dresser, chair and even accessories in the same shade as your room. You can further enhance it with bags, jewellery and other adornments in the same hue for a beautiful setup.
Punctuate the area with a dresser, chair and even accessories in the same shade as your room. You can further enhance it with bags, jewellery and other adornments in the same hue for a beautiful setup.
Repurpose elegant containers and trays to store everyday items
Trays and containers are usually reserved for their culinary utility But when adapted as vanity storage, they make for a beautiful base for streamlining your assortment of beauty aids.
This stylish tray looks right at home in the vanity area with everyday perfumes, cosmetics, lotions and potions stowed within a hand’s reach.
Trays and containers are usually reserved for their culinary utility But when adapted as vanity storage, they make for a beautiful base for streamlining your assortment of beauty aids.
This stylish tray looks right at home in the vanity area with everyday perfumes, cosmetics, lotions and potions stowed within a hand’s reach.
Keep it fresh with flowers; plant succulents or terrariums
The most undemanding way of refreshing a plain dressing table is with fresh blooms. Here, a modest bunch of yellow roses look delightfully indulgent, while lifting the space from dull to dynamic.
Tip: While flowers have their allure, terrariums or succulents in dainty planters are the perfect grace note for a vanity unit and require minimal care.
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The most undemanding way of refreshing a plain dressing table is with fresh blooms. Here, a modest bunch of yellow roses look delightfully indulgent, while lifting the space from dull to dynamic.
Tip: While flowers have their allure, terrariums or succulents in dainty planters are the perfect grace note for a vanity unit and require minimal care.
Read more:
7 Reasons to Opt for a Floating Vanity
8 Modern Dressing Tables for Non-Fussy Women
Tell us:
Which dressing table was your favourite? Share in Comments.
Take the blank slate of your dressing table to an arty level by adding warm, complementary textures, finishes and accessories. We suggest completing the look with a Queen Anne-style mirror, a modest dresser-style vanity, a metal jewellery organiser, and a contemporary seater with a faux fur throw on it, as shown in this image.
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