No. No need at all.

Whew! I narrowly escaped that decorating faux pas ;) In our master suite, the bedroom furniture is the same color as the light travertine floor in the en suite. The bathroom vanity and wall cabinet is the same color as the chocolate brown carpet in the bedroom. It all ties together nicely :)

I hope not -- my bath is white and I didn't have painted white furniture even as a little girl (though I liked it -- and still do, just didn't pick it for the master BR).

Mine don't mstch

Match, no. Relate in some way .. to me, ideally yes.

PS BTW, so happy to see you posting about our usual "nonsense". : )

I would say not even necessary to relate...especially if the bedroom furniture is traditional and the bathroom is outfitted in a traditional bathroom way. Here is my bedside table:

I don't really think that I would want a vanity that looked like this in any particular way. Not campaign, not brass, not mahogany and yew wood. Furniture is furniture, but a vanity is generally a built-in. I realize that people use furniture for vanities, but I think that relating that too closely to the other furniture may be somewhat problematic.

No, but relating is good. I might change the piece in front of the bed. I like the other two for contrast and variety. The three of them seems a bit much.

Love the colorway and style of your bathroom. I'd tie in a bit more since it's open.

Snookums, I was just thinking how much I disliked the chest at the end of the bed and was thinking of keeping it in the closet for now but maybe changing the finish is the solution to help tie the two spaces more together.

I am happy that the two rooms do not need to be viewed as one though for at the moment I have no energy to refinish or shop for a new pieces.

From what I have seen of your bath and now bedroom, I think they compliment each other very nicely!

Personallly, I would not want to put this

Next to this

The house I grew up in was crazy like that. We had toile and velvet in the LR, spanish-y ceramic tiles i n the DR with rough hewn beams, and a familyroom with shag carpet and an enormous "conversation pit". I like houses that look like they were conceived as a whole, which does not mean matching but it does mean you consider adjoining rooms.

Do you think those two would end up adjacent?

This is why I like good old fashioned mid-century or earlier, utilitarian bathrooms. They don't conflict with much of anything, because they don't look like furniture

Pardon the wallpaper (but it did coordinate colorwise with the adjacent hall)

Again, pardon the paper, and the shirred mirror (which did match the drapes next door)

This doesn't look like furniture, so it doesn't have to reference furniture: the room outside could be anything. Change the hardware maybe, if the bedroom changes from colonial revival to disco era art deco, and you are finished.

Here's another one, this bathroom tells it's own story. The adjacent bedroom could be full of antiques

I think those examples need to be considered with adjacent spaces like any other style.

Everything does not go with anything else.

Sure they can end up adjacent! If they were done over different periods, or one was the PO and one is the person who moved in.

BTW, I think we are getting far afield with these examples. Roarah's spaces are entirely complementary. If I recall, though, she has always had a bee in her bonnet about DH's pine armoire that came over on the Mayflower. ; )

I think she might want us to tell her DH must send it back, pronto!

I like the armoire! Anyway, it could always be painted.

No, it doesn't.

It has to relate to the house as a whole and have some inner sense about it. I think.

Otherwise it's nice not to match things perfectly. It's not always easy to pull off, but if you can-I find it makes the room/s richer and more complex and interesting.

Depends on a person, but I start feeling very uncomfortable when everything matches perfectly in my room. If it goes this direction-I loose my rest until I mess it up a bit.

Well, when it doesn't make sense together at all-it's worse of course. Different sort of agony:)

I think your room is quite lovely. I like how vanity of different color is peeking out of the door:) The furniture looks alive and sort of talking with each other-I like when it happens:)

To funny Mrd! That armoire is my nemesis for sure! I should not joke about DH's death at this time with things as they are, but I have always thought I can save money on a coffin and just bury him in his beloved monstrosity when the time comes.

Pal you have a good point that when bathrooms were to look like just bathrooms the need to be very consistent was not a prevalent issue, like kitchens they were more functional than an area to decorate. That being said I specifically wanted the new bath to look more like a walk in closet with free standing furniture rather than a bath for never having a master suite of my own I was not sure if I wanted to see a bathroom from my bed.

Well for now I think I will try changing the chest at the foot of the bed to either a white stain of mahagony to see if that helps me like this room a bit more.

Thanks!

Snookums I agree:

Everything does not go with everything, and the bathrooms pictured do have to be considered in context of the adjacent rooms. And if I recall, all of these bathrooms were complementary to the adjacent rooms in terms of color, wallpaper or window treatments, and architectural style.

The blue bathroom in particular was a Jack and Jill between two bedrooms, and it coordinated very well with both. But one bedroom was 1960s French Provincial and the other bedroom (and much of the house) was 1960s Asian Moderne. (This was one of the most intact and beautifully furnished time capsule houses I've ever been in, the owner was around 100 yo when she died, I think).

Anyway, the bathroom coordinated with both (even though it is unapologetically blue instead of neutral).

But since this post started about Vanities in particular, lets look at that:

One bedroom is furnished in French Provincial with a painted sort of grey blue patina finish, and has French looking curly hardware and such.

One bedroom is furnished in Asian Modern, in blonde wood and little oval recessed pulls.

So if you are redoing this vanity to coordinate with furniture, which one? While the rooms coordinate as a "whole" within the house, I don't think you could really swap any of the case pieces from one to the other bedroom.

The notion that the vanity is built in and looks like "generic cabinet" and not like a freestanding furniture style at all means it can bridge both rooms.

Mtn:

maybe the examples are far afield from what a lot of people are doing now, since furniture vanities are a trend (not a fad but a trend), but my idea is that technically a vanity, if it coordinates in some plain fashion with the House, rather than a particular piece of furniture, it does not need to Match Anything to coordinate with Almost Anything.

The examples you pictured definitely do NOT belong in adjacent rooms.

But, take down the wallpaper paint the vanity the color of the walls in the bedroom and put different hardware on the vanity, and it Would. The vanity does not have to be a combination of Queen Anne and Chippendale just because that's what the current bedroom furniture is--if it is treated as a cabinet and not a piece of furniture.

The problem with the two rooms you show is that each is treated as a "theme". I am not even sold that the bedroom is an actual bedroom but is a catalog shot to show a "Bedroom Set" for some furniture company.

But I do see this sort of adjacency a lot. Look at real estate in areas where full-on decorating is very popular. Sometimes you can say "This room is original; this room was redone around 1985; this room was done in 2000; they just freshened this room up to put the house on the market this year". Each room has a distinct and discordant "theme". For anybody who lives in this area look at Cherry Hill, Penn Valley, Elkins Park, Rydal, on occasion and you will see time capsule houses and time capsule by room on a pretty regular basis.

Pal, great explanation, thanks. I must ask is the difference between a fad and a trend the length of its duration?

I would say longevity and adaptability. People probably started using pieces of furniture to make into a vanity in the 1960s or so? It probably started somewhat when people who had old houses converted washstands and such to actual sinks. In more modern houses that started out with wall hung or pedestal sinks I think it mostly started in powder rooms because people wanted to have fun with their powder rooms.

But in general manufactured vanity cabinets still looked like bathroom cabinets if that was what their intended use was. Manufacturers starting to build vanities that look like pieces of furniture turned into vanities...I dunno maybe this took off after 2000?

I think manufacturers also realized that it is more flexible, and thus cheaper, to make vanities that look like a piece of furniture turned into a vanity. Since it is supposed to be freestanding and look like it was placed there, it doesn't really have to "fit" like an older style built in vanity. It's kind of coming full circle because people are building expensive full custom vanities that are free standing so they look like pieces of furniture that don't fit exactly in the space but were put there.

Roarah, you asked about bedding. My DD is in process of re-doing her small master bedroom and chose this Pottery Barn Mackenna duvet and shams with a navy throw for the foot of the bed. She hasn't re-painted yet but her current wall color is a dark taupe and doesn't look too bad but she will probably go lighter. It might be too much blue for you with your wall color, but I think it looks very pretty and I thought about your navy chair.