Medicine Cabinets: How to Get Revenge on Nosy People
Unique bathroom medicine cabinets
Houzz Contributor. Hi There! I currently live in a 1920s cottage in Atlanta that I'll describe as "collected."
I got into design via Landscape Architecture, which I studied at the University of Virginia. I've been writing about design online for quite a few years over at Hatch: The Design Public Blog.
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Looking in someone's medicine cabinet - it's the sneakiest, snoopiest thing you can do. I remember reading once about a girl who filled hers with golf balls before she threw a party so that they could laugh at whoever made them all crash down by opening the door.
There are several ways to have fun with medicine cabinets in the more public areas in your home. You can fill them up like a shadowbox as a visual treat for snoops (they really can't comment about how cute it is to you later, or they'll be busted), you can buy Jonathan Adler Vices Collection jars for a laugh, you can use translucent glass to show off some shadows without giving away all of your secrets, or you can just stop letting nosy people use the facilities.
There are several ways to have fun with medicine cabinets in the more public areas in your home. You can fill them up like a shadowbox as a visual treat for snoops (they really can't comment about how cute it is to you later, or they'll be busted), you can buy Jonathan Adler Vices Collection jars for a laugh, you can use translucent glass to show off some shadows without giving away all of your secrets, or you can just stop letting nosy people use the facilities.
I think I would just leave the door to this antique medicine cabinet open all of the time.
This transparent glass is great. I think it would be kind of funny if it were composed completely of pink Pepto Bismol or Blue Maalox bottles.
Here's a nice traditional look. I bet people snoop through these a lot.
Whatever you put in here can't be any worse than what the labels say.
A take on lining up one's "dolls" - various bathsalts and aromatherapy crystals make a great composition in these small jars.
| If you're a Sephora junkie with a Prescriptives or Kiehl's collection, it looks fine out in the open when well composed. |
Again, pretty and uniform bottles are dandy in open shelves. Just make sure you keep them from getting covered in lint and dust, like that bowl of shell-shaped soaps my grandmother kept on the back of the commode for 20+ years.
These ornate mirror does a great job of hiding the medicine cabinet. Side Note: Isn't it wonderful that it is the one over-the-top element in the room, while everything else is simple? That's how to do it!
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Oversized apothocary jars filled with just one type of item each are attractive in the bathroom. If someone can get to the Q-tips this easily, they have no excuse for opening up the medicine cabinet.
These baskets hide a multitude of sins!
These are two of my vintage medicine cabinets. In case you are wondering, my sink base is an antique icebox. Weird, I know!
Here's a peak inside.
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| Vintage tins and mason jars are great for creating little displays inside. My latest addition is this rusty old Ex-Lax tin that has its price, 5 cents, printed on it. |
Ideabook updated on Nov. 18, 2009.
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