I have 6'6" for the vanity and am using 1 sink base and flanking drawer bases. Like kitchens, more drawers will give me better storage. I'll be using two 18" deep storage towers and dim-able 100 watt sconces in the mirror. There will be a lighted magnifying mirror for makeup and shaving in the tower by the window, a center ceiling fixture (thinking led Solatube), a lighted/dim-able/heated vent fan on a timer, and an led in the shower. Each will be on a separate switch. That's a lot for our small 6.5x9 space but it's a task room with little natural light most of the day and, our eyesight is starting to go!

The last pic is my favorite but I'd take the tower to the ceiling and make the top open and tall enough for your tv. That will help with the looming feeling you're getting from something so tall and make use of full height. Consider a bracket that allows you to bring it forward and down. You'll still have to use a small ladder to clean up there, but it will be easier to reach than an open top of the cabinet.

I'm a fan of huge wall mirrors in the bath and would use something that was at least as large, proportionately to your cab/wall, as the ones in the first and last photos. This is one of my inspiration pics, though I'd like the tower to have a door.

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I like that tower number one has backsplash protecting its base. That would be mandatory in my household, although it looks a little weird.

Here's our tower with an opening at the top. It's about 24" wide, 12" deep and goes to the ceiling. I like the continuous crown molding that wraps around the tower. You could easily put a TV in the opening at the top especially if you made it square instead of arched.

I think the main question is. What are your storage needs. Do you
need a place for towels? If you need a place for towels then I would go
with a 48" sink base cabinet and a 24" wide cabinet like in your last
picture. A 24 inch wide cabinet with some open space at top would allow
you to put a small tv (19-22" size) in it. There would be space for
towels below the tv section and you could have drawers in the in the
bottom portion.

Good point. I do need to store towels here in this area .... but one stack of towels would fit in 18", where as two side-by-side stacks wouldn't fit in a 24". I also need storage for extra toiletries, and I think I would appreciate the wider 24" drawers below for that purpose ... I need to really go over the amount of stuff I have stored in my bathroom.

An open area for the TV at the top makes sense.

18" wide
linen cabinet with doors on the top and drawers on the bottom. I'm
amazed how much she can put in that cabinet. She doesn't know how she
managed without it in her previous bathroom. Here's her setup. Her tall
linen cabinet does not go all the way too the ceiling

Yeah, I had an 18" linen tower in a bathroom once, and -- WOW -- did it hold a great deal. Loved it.
I'm a fan of huge wall mirrors in the bath and would use something
that was at least as large, proportionately to your cab/wall, as the
ones in the first and last photos. This is one of my inspiration pics,
though I'd like the tower to have a door.

Yeah, I agree: The mirror you're showing makes the whole thing look bigger than my examples. In fact, that's my favorite inspiration picture yet. I want some color in the layout ... but I'm leaning towards a recycled glass countertop, which would bring in some color ... and if I go with open shelving, the towels would bring in some soft color.

I think I'd lean towards pendant lighting instead of the sconces through the mirror.
Thanks, All, for your thoughts.

For lighting I would definitely add at least one Solatube unit, maybe more depending on the space. We love ours and the natural light it brings in for free.

We put a shallow one on our bathroom counter because we needed a place for toiletries and couldn't fit in a medicine chest due to HVAC runs there. An outlet is inside for shaver charging and there are two split to the outside. The placement of outlets was going to be off center otherwise, again because of what was inside the walls. It is only 8" deep, which is deep enough for towel rings, as our design also made towel placement problematic. We like it, but if I we're to do it again I'd put a drawer at the bottom. As it is, the door swings so that you can't put anything on the counter there and still open it. Even my eye glasses are too tall. We have towel storage elsewhere. You may need to click on the picture to mage the dimensions right; they are distorted until you click.

In our kids' bathroom, there is a larger one. So far they haven't mentioned the door swing, but they are young. I'm sure it will eventually get annoying. We had an extra piece of counter cut to go under it and the installers mounted it before I saw it had been sized wrong. I thought it was measured to fit exactly under the cabinet but they allowed for 1/2" all around, and then forgot the backsplash was already 1/2" deep so the front is visible for 1"but the sides show 1/2". It's a kid bathroom, upstairs, so I just let it slide knowing more damage might be done if they tried to take it off. I can't figure out why they don't notice such things.

So basically my advice is boiled down to:

1) Be aware of the door swing

2) if you put extra counter top under it, make sure you are clear on your vision of how it should look.

For lighting I would definitely add at least one Solatube unit, maybe
more depending on the space. We love ours and the natural light it
brings in for free.

Thanks, but I'm not a big fan Solatubes (or of holes in the roof in general). We'll have 5' of window for natural light in this bathroom.

We like it, but if I we're to do it again I'd put a drawer at the
bottom. As it is, the door swings so that you can't put anything on the
counter there and still open it.

I appreciate this close-up picture. I do think a couple drawers would be handy on the tower ... but I kind of like the idea that nothing can be left on the cabinet ... my husband is definitely clutter-oblivious.

1) Be aware of the door swing

2) if you put extra counter top under it, make sure you are clear on your vision of how it should look.

Points taken. I am developing my "vision of how it should look" ... I didn't really have one when I started this thread.

Thanks, all.

One more point about the door swing: it's not just long term clutter. I use my blow dryer and then can't leave it on the counter to cool while I'm combing my hair unless I leave the door open the whole time until after I use my hair spray. I just sort of balance it near the sink (not plugged in of course). I guess you might have the same issue with drawers, but you might be able to make decisions on what to put in then that might not involve opening them while getting ready (Band-Aids, etc).

Great thread. I have a bathroom I'm getting ideas :-)

You've posted a pic of my tower (from Houzz, I guess - the one with the leaf trim tile) with a question about the balance of mirror vs tower. I guess to my eye the mirror and sconces are a "unit" which provides balance. I'm happy with it, but I do like some that you've pictured that lift the wood off the counter on a raised counter piece. I am very careful about water on the counter, but I've still had some issues with water being wicked by the bottom of the appliance garage doors affecting the finish. The cabinet maker shaved off the bottom of the doors just a fraction and refinished them, but I would have made it so the wood doesn't meet the counter, if I had known.

My ceilings are only 8' and it would have looked odd/chopped off to have it shorter, plus my goal was no ledge to keep dusted :-)

Regarding door swing-we put this tower on our vanity:

and chose this mechanism so the door swings up:

One more point about the door swing: it's not just long term clutter.

Good point.

You've posted a pic of my tower (from
Houzz, I guess - the one with the leaf trim tile) with a question about
the balance of mirror vs tower.

What are the chances?!

but I
would have made it so the wood doesn't meet the counter, if I had known.

Honestly, this is something I never would've considered. Thanks for the heads-up.

and chose this mechanism so the door swings up:

I'm not 5' tall, so I'm not sure I'd like a swing-up door.

Thanks, All!

mrspete- just to clarify, only the bottom cabinet swings up. The top one opens to the side. So the pull is only 21.5" off the counter when the bottom door is up.

I, too, am not tall (5'2".)

Good luck with whatever you choose!

I have a long double vanity with towers at each end. I have the same problem that Olychick mentioned. Water on the counter is affecting the wood finish on the bottom of the towers. Never occurred to me to wrap the towers with counter material on the bottom, but that would have solved the problem.

My towers go up to the ceiling. I'm 5'1", so I don't use the upper shelves..

I don't have an issue with the swinging doors on the towers - but I have a separate vanity counter for makeup - where I can leave out a hair dryer.

Have you looked at mirror TV's? I don't know if they need to be recessed into the wall.

I'm adding a center tower to my vanity and love all of the tips on this thread. I'm painting my existing vanity navy, with a white quartz countertop and white walls. I want to paint the tower navy. it's been suggested that I paint the tower white to blend/flow with the white counters and walls. Thoughts? What do you all have?

Just signing a contract today. Navy vanity and tower and white quartz. Hoping we like it 😊

erosenst, need to share pics when completed!