The outside of the closet
door may be fitted with a mirror, and narrow shelves just deep enough to
hold one's bottles, may be fitted on the inside of the door. If the
closet is very shallow, the inner shelves should be hollowed out to
admit the bottle shelves when the door is closed. Otherwise the bottles
will be smashed the first time a careless maid slams the door. This
bottle closet has been one of my great successes in small apartments,
where bathroom and dressing-room are one, and where much must be
accomplished in a small space.
In the more modern apartments the tub is placed in a recess in the wall
of the bathroom, leaving more space for dressing purposes. This sort of
combination dressing-room should have waterproof floor and wall, and no
fripperies. There should be a screen large enough to conceal the tub,
and a folding chair that may be placed in the small closet when it is
not in use.
When the bathroom is too small to admit a dressing-table and chair and
the bedroom is quite large, a good plan is the building of a tiny room
in one corner of the bedroom. Of course this little dressing-box must
have a window. I have used this plan many times with excellent results.
Another scheme, when the problem was entirely different, and the
dressing-room was too large for comfort, was to line three walls of it
with closets, the fourth wall being filled with windows.
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