your powder room....

[Miss Stella]

Wow! Looks like she has a shoe closet that is the size of my house!

 

[Viola]

I long for when I have room in my bedroom for a vanity table... it would be completely magical to liberate my makeup from the under-sink storage of our bathroom and my husband would love to get his bathroom back too.

Also I think vanity tables are beautiful, especially with nice-looking mirrors.

Additionally I was informed rather icily once that vanity tables were "obsolete in modern homes" ahem, maybe if you have a few enormous bathrooms, but manifestly not if you have only one and it is of ordinary size! Nobody wants to form a queue while the lady of the house curls her eyelashes!

 

[Bluebird Marsha]

*Hummpf!*
Whoever said vanities were obsolete obviously didn't have a vision problem. I don't know how many things I tried to help me see myself as I did my makeup and hair. Sitting at my vanity table beats the heck out of sitting on top of the bathroom counter with my nose up against the mirror.

 

[Antje]

This is where my magic happens
my vanity table

 

[fortworthgal]

^ Very pretty, Antje!

I don't have a powder or dressing room. I have my own bathroom and I just use that counter space for all my loot. I always do my hair and makeup standing up, too. I'll have to take a photo of my oh-so-glamorous counter setup.

 

[Isis]

I want a vanity table so much! Our bedrrom is tiny, but we are heading toward a makeover to make it pure 1940's and I try to fgure out a way to get a vanity into it as well!

 

[Miss Golightly]

This is where my magic happens
my vanity table

That's lovely Antje - is that a mouse mat you have on the top - to protect the wood? If so - good thinking!!!!!!

 

[TillyMilly]

Heres mine:

http://img.makeupalley.com/1/7/3/5/2024026.JPG

http://img.makeupalley.com/1/7/3/5/2024049.JPG

 

[Miss sofia]

I feel like a complete slattern now i've seen your lovely photos! You have given me the impetus to go and tidy up! Your dressing table is amazing and so organised.

 

[TillyMilly]

Thanks Miss Sofia. It has been siad before that I'm a bit of a neat freak

 

[Antje]

Heres mine:

http://img.makeupalley.com/1/7/3/5/2024026.JPG

http://img.makeupalley.com/1/7/3/5/2024049.JPG

Wow, that is awsome a totally different style then mine but I love it

 

[Antje]

That's lovely Antje - is that a mouse mat you have on the top - to protect the wood? If so - good thinking!!!!!!

Well it is a placemat, but it is indeed to protect the wood

 

[Isis]

We are planning to re-do our bedroom in a 1940's style, but as it's so tiny I had given up on having a vanity table. But after discussing it with my darling we think we can make it, so I have been looking for a small one. Just for fun I asked a co-worker if he didn't have one he needed to get rid of. His late wife who was much older than he and a true lady was just the kind of woman I can imagine having had a vanity. To my surprise he said that yes indeed, he had a green one from 1946- would I like to have that?

We are planning to have purple and green as colour scheme, so this sounds just about perfect. Hopefully it isn't to large.

 

[Caroline H]

Tishkaminx,
Wow! So streamlined and organized and all that natural light. I love it!

 

[IartFashion]

I made a post on my blog a while back about some vanity spaces I would love to have!

http://iartfashion.blogspot.com/2011/12/vanity-daydreams.html

 

[Caroline H]

IartFashion,
Thanks for sharing that. I want number 4 or number 8! (and I want to be the girl in number 18!)

 

[BetsyRose]

Here's mine! It's not finished yet, but I'm really into it!

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[swinggal]

Here's my dresser. I have a 1930s dresser and robes. I put little rubber stoppers under the glass top on the dresser so I can display some of my compacts and vintage jewellery.

 

[Flicka]

Here's my dresser. I have a 1930s dresser and robes. I put little rubber stoppers under the glass top on the dresser so I can display some of my compacts and vintage jewellery.

Yum!

 

[Miss Golightly]

Here's my dresser. I have a 1930s dresser and robes. I put little rubber stoppers under the glass top on the dresser so I can display some of my compacts and vintage jewellery.

What a brilliant idea - you can admire your pieces but they are protected at the same time - PLUS you won't forget any jewellery that you have! I have some lovely pieces that I had put away in boxes for safekeeping but forgot a lot of them. I went into Muji and bought a clear drawer for my costume jewellery so now I can see everything I have. I have all my stud earrings in a separate jewellery box:

Muji also do some great stackable boxes that you can use for make-up - again I was forgetting what I had as I had them stored in a kind of travel case - this way I can quickly get my hands on what I need:

I can't wait for the day that me and my dressing table will be reunited - but for the moment these little boxes will more than do....