Children’s Wardrobe

Why build a DIY children's wardrobe?

A wardrobe is a must in a kid's room to promote independence and and order.

By providing a wardrobe that is the appropriate size and height you can help enable your child to dress themselves. Your children can practice essential care-of-self skills at home and grow in confidence.

The size of the dresser is designed to fit a minimal amount of clothing. This is great since limiting choices is a one way to prevent your child from being overwhelmed by a stuffy closet with many choices. Limiting and rotating out clothing is a perfect way to promote independence while still giving the grownups control over the clothing options to ensure clothing options appropriate for the weather and season. Your child will love the autonomy of picking out the outfit!

What are the specs of the DIY children's wardrobe?

This is an easy to build and a low-cost wardrobe closet. This build is great for beginners to woodworking because of the simple joints and easy to understand step by step instructions.

The lower section of the wardrobe is great for storing shoes and slippers, while the upper cubbies can store other articles of clothing.

The closet rod or bar can be used for hanging cloths on hangers. The bar can be made much lower depending on your child’s age and height so that it can be accessed easily and enable children to hang up clothing by themselves.

You can easily add drawers, trays, or dowel hangers to customize the closet so that the space makes sense to your child. Adding a wood crate for example, can help designate separate spaces for folded for socks, pants, short sleeve, shorts, pyjamas, diapers, long sleeve tops, etc.

The back of the dresser has horizontal wood planks in place to provide extra structural support and to prevent items from falling through to the back. The slat width matches the other furniture pieces seen in the photos and video to create an overall uniform look and to tie in the entire room in an aesthetic way.

What are the dimensions of the wardrobe?

The closet is approximately 43 inches tall, 35 inches wide, and 12 inches deep.

The lowest cubby is 35 inches wide and 6 inches tall.

The side cubbies are about 11 inches tall and 12 inches wide.