Dress Up Station

I decided that I wanted to give my daughter a dress-up station for Christmas, which of course meant I needed to make one. I saw a picture on Pinterest (I can't tell you how often I say those words) of a cute one made out of a dresser. Unfortunately I had no spare dressers and being in the middle of a move I really didn't feel like going and buying one to haul around. So the hunt began! I started looking at everything as a perspective dress up station. As we were moving everything out of our storage shed and into our new place I came across this little beauty.

I know, crappy picture. But this is my first ever blog post so cut me some slack! I wish I had gotten a photo of the inside, but oh well. This is one of the pieces to those build your own storage center things you find at Target or Wal-mart. It is basically a rectangle with two removable shelves on the inside (pretend you don't see the little white square on the front. That is just a child lock I used when it contained other items). So I got to work disassembling it. I knew I needed a dowel of some sort to hang her dresses, a few shelves for shoes, and some hooks for purses. Here is what I came up with:

In a nutshell what I did was remove the door and the shelves and then, using my handy dandy drill, attached them to the outside of the cupboard. I covered them with some cute contact paper that I found at Michael's for $1 a roll, because they just needed to be a little more feminine. Then I drilled a hole through the cupboard and hammered in a dowel so I could hang her dresses. Lastly, I added some hooks for her purses and other assorted accessories.

My daughter seems to like it quite a lot. She asks to wear a "swirly princess dress" everyday and then proceeds to pick out shoes and a purse to go with it. Success!