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A Furniture Look for Your Bathroom Vanity
Give your vanity custom style with carved legs, molding and furniture details
Rebekah Zaveloff, owner and principal designer of KitchenLab, co-founder of Design in a Bag.com and Houzz contributor. I'm a self-professed tile nut and believer in good design for all! You can also visit me at: http://kitchenlabdesign.com and http://designinabag.com
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We get many questions from Houzz users asking us where they can get this or that bathroom vanity, and often the answer is that the vanity is a custom or semi-custom piece, not a standalone readymade piece.
But even when vanities are assembled from stock cabinets, you can achieve a very custom look by adding a few furniture style details. These vanities may look like freestanding pieces of furniture, but they're anything but. Here's a few of my favorite examples, with a few freestanding retail options as well.
But even when vanities are assembled from stock cabinets, you can achieve a very custom look by adding a few furniture style details. These vanities may look like freestanding pieces of furniture, but they're anything but. Here's a few of my favorite examples, with a few freestanding retail options as well.
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Furniture-style legs: This vanity might look like a piece of furniture, but it's all in the styling. Pilaster-style legs, detailed feet, the varied heights of each cabinet, the flush inset construction: All these elements are critical in making this vanity look and feel like a piece of furniture.
Tip: The reason that vanities similar to the one shown here aren't available off the shelf in stores or online is often due to size. You might see a 48" single-bowl, furniture-style vanity available as a readymade product, but a vanity such as the one shown in this photo is designed to fit the space exactly — "fitted" precisely between two walls.
Tip: The reason that vanities similar to the one shown here aren't available off the shelf in stores or online is often due to size. You might see a 48" single-bowl, furniture-style vanity available as a readymade product, but a vanity such as the one shown in this photo is designed to fit the space exactly — "fitted" precisely between two walls.
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| Furniture style doesn't have to be super-ornate. The simple addition of legs that raise the cabinet off the floor transforms a vanity into a piece of furniture. |
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In this custom piece, turned pilaster style legs and ball feet and a deeper top apron are reminiscent of furniture pieces.
Tip: Analyzing the details of a favorite antique sideboard or dining room credenza can help you to design a custom, furniture-style vanity of your own.
Tip: Analyzing the details of a favorite antique sideboard or dining room credenza can help you to design a custom, furniture-style vanity of your own.
Furniture base molding. If seeing (and cleaning) under a bathroom cabinet just isn't your cup of tea, there's always this option: furniture base moulding combined with a recessed toekick behind so you don't have clean under the cabinets.
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From eye level, you can't even see the recessed toekick behind the the furniture base, but it tricks you into thinking the cabinets are standing on feet.
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Decorative molding details. The simple addition of a piece of molding between the upper drawers and lower doors adds a level of detail you don't see on a standard stock cabinet. The molding and base molding transforms this into a furniture-style piece.
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If a custom-made vanity isn't in your future, and you're looking for a readymade furniture style vanity, there are a few on the market, like this one from Fairmont Designs, that are pretty terrific.
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Love the veneer pattern of this from Kohler.
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It's not easy to find a readymade double bowl vanity cabinet, and Restoration Hardware has made that a bit easier on us all by offering a handful of styles and sizes.
Ideabook published on Aug. 30, 2011.
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