Wardrobe or dresser for your child's room?

Categories: Children's Room

In a child's room, parents usually try not to clutter the space with too much furniture to keep room for playing. However, you still need to store your child's belongings such as clothes. Therefore, a choice must be made between a wardrobe or a dresser. So which piece of furniture is most suitable for your child's room? We'll help you make your choice!

The dresser: essential from birth

The dresser is a piece of furniture found in children's rooms sometimes from birth. Indeed, a children's dresser is an ideal piece of furniture for organizing baby's clothes and belongings. Moreover, there are also models on which you can attach a changing table that can later be removed when the child no longer needs to be changed. The children's bedroom dresser thus serves multiple purposes and can be kept for many years.

A bedroom dresser is indeed a piece of furniture that you can choose quite neutral to stand the test of time. We therefore recommend avoiding choosing a children's bedroom dresser with overly childish patterns, otherwise you'll need to opt for another bedroom dresser once your child becomes a teenager. With the right children's dresser, you can keep it for a long time and integrate it into adult bedroom decor. In fact, an adult bedroom dresser can be perfectly used as a children's dresser.

Choose your model wisely

As we mentioned, choosing your children's dresser well will allow you to keep it for many years. We therefore recommend favoring wood, which tends to last longer. You can opt for FSC or PEFC certified wood, which comes from eco-managed forests. If you want quality furniture, made in France is also a very good indicator.

As explained above, it's better to choose a neutral and easy-to-match design like a white and wood dresser such as our MILOR model for example. Don't forget to favor furniture with large spacious drawers that will allow you to store maximum belongings.

The wardrobe: practical and spacious

While the children's dresser offers many advantages, the wardrobe also has real assets. Being a tall piece of furniture makes it even more spacious and allows for storing many clothes. Beyond the shelves for folded clothes, there are of course also hanging rods that allow for hanging many outfits. The wardrobe can also be kept over the years and find its place in a teenager's or even adult's room.

Choose your model wisely

To choose your model well, we recommend opting for a wardrobe designed for a child's room. These are less bulky than adult wardrobes or vintage models. This way, space in your child's room remains preserved. Consider looking at the type of storage you'll find inside to ensure it actually meets your needs.

Regarding materials, here too we recommend favoring wood, preferably FSC or PEFC certified. Using low formaldehyde panels for your wardrobe (just like for a children's dresser) will also help limit the presence of volatile organic compounds. Also favor made in France if you can.

Why not combine both?

If space in your child's room allows, you can certainly combine a wardrobe with a children's dresser. Indeed, there are now what we call complete bedroom sets that allow you to opt for a matching bed, wardrobe, and dresser. From birth, you can choose this type of furniture set that will evolve as your child grows. This solution is very economical and also allows you to maintain matching furniture over the years.

To store a child's numerous belongings, the combination of a dresser and wardrobe can be an excellent idea that will help you avoid having overflowing storage furniture and keep your child's room well organized.

Our tips for well-organized storage furniture

To prevent belongings from overflowing and clothes ending up wrinkled at the bottom of drawers and closets, there are some tricks to apply in both little ones' and older children's rooms.

Sort regularly

Often, clothes tend to accumulate quickly and space can become scarce. However, we all know that many clothes are no longer the right size, too damaged, or simply never worn. Therefore, a major sorting is necessary before getting rid of what your child doesn't wear to then sell, donate, or throw away depending on the condition.

Use boxes and dividers

In drawers and on shelves, it's important to be able to distinguish different piles and sort meaningfully. You can therefore use drawer dividers or boxes that will make it easier to store socks, underwear, etc. This ensures you maintain well-organized storage furniture.

Teaching your child to tidy up

Beyond these tips that help maintain organization, it's also your child who must participate in keeping their dresser and/or wardrobe orderly. Teach them to search without taking everything out, to put away what's lying around, etc.