Is that idea too wild? What other functional furniture could I put in there if I didn't have a dresser?

It used to be that rooms didn't have closets, and so we had wardrobes and dressers.

Now, rooms have HUGE closets--huge enough that you could put big dressers inside them; and often they have built-in storage. And you can still get dressed in them, sometimes.

I see the sense in having all the clothes in the same spot, instead of some in the dresser in the room, and some in the closet, etc.

So if you can fit the clothes, all of them in the closet, I'd be like you--tempted to do it.

Remember also that you don't have to put CLOTHES in the dresser, if you get it for decorating reasons.

You can make it be the wrapping-paper center, or the "Christmas table linens" center or the "out of season clothes" storage.

Some of that might be silly to put in the master bedroom (table linens esp.), but there might be things you could put there that do make sense: out-of-season clothes; seldom-worn stuff like rain boots, ski-ing clothes, working-in-the-backyard clothes, swimsuits, long underwear--that sort of clothes stuff (all of which I currently put in my closet, btw).

I teach Sunday School, and I might dedicate one drawer in the dresser to crafts stuff and the books I use; it would give them a home, and it wouldn't bother me too much to have it in the bedroom instead of the kitchen. I'm the only one who uses it, so it would be in "my turf" instead of "family turf." Do you have any projects, activites, crafts, etc, that you do, that don't involve anybody else?

A knitter could store their knitting in the dresser, for example.

If you put a single dresser, and a pretty desk-height table, you could have the dresser be the "desk drawers."

The platform eliminated under-the-bed issues of dust (I'm allergic to dust mites), lost shoes, and temptations to stuff stuff under there when company is coming.

We're moving nothing in there. King size bed, two nightstands. 14'6" x 18'6". Room to breathe and move around. Maybe we'll dance with moonlight coming in through the open curtains.

However, look at all the really striking bedrooms shown in magazines - no clothes storage is shown at all.

Pinktoes, your idea sounds wonderful!

Anyway, a lot of you think elfa is declasse, but I was going to say that the woman I talked to there said they're doing a lot of master closets where people are moving all their dresser storage in there. So, whatever system you choose, it seems a popular idea. My former MIL did hers that way in 1975; with a contractor husband she was ahead of her time.

In the master bedroom is my grandmother's small desk (which doesn't fit anywhere else in the house) and a nightstand.

Changing the way we use the rooms has been beneficial in a few ways. We got the king bed; we have more storage pieces and better functioning closets; and the person still sleeping when the other gets up isn't disturbed when they turn on lights and open and close drawers and doors.

Tina

I hang my pants on hangers made for pants. 1 hanger holds 6 pairs of pants...kind of in a layered/stacked kind of way. The few everyday work jeans that I wear a lot I keep folded on the shelf so I can grab them quicker. Otherwise, all other pants get hung.

I have 2 hanging shoe racks...they hang on the same rods as the clothing/hangers do...not on the back of the door.

The only thing I miss the dresser drawers for is my undergarments. I'm still thinking about a good solution for that in the long-term, but for now I have 2 rectangular rubbermaid bins with low sides (ones that could slide under a bed...though I still keep then in the closet). One bin holds undies and socks, the other holds bras & other misc unmentionables.

I've had dressers all my life, and I just moved into an apartment & gave up the bedroom dresser (divorce situation). I thought it would be tough, but it really wasn't. In fact, I've adapted so well to no dresser, that I've got my DD's closet set up like mine now, and the only thing I use her dresser for anymore is her socks & diapers in the top, and toys/books in the rest.

As for other furniture in the room...get something you love.

I'm bed shopping next week. I don't plan on buying until I find something I love. After that I'll pick out other furniture. I pulled out the extra junk in dh's closet earlier today and made him go through it. I asked him how he would prefer to keep his clothes, socks and underwear. My next organizing move depends on what I can buy locally.