Off Center Master Bath Vanity HELP!!!!

5 years ago

Just as the topic said, I have an off center bathroom vanity as my husband and I have never found double sinks to be useful . I like to have a makeup area but I do not like it to be the 'sit down' area. I always stand to do my makeup so the 'desk look' to me is wasted space. I also wanted to do some open shelving to the right of the sink so we had our plumbing actually set for a 26" center. However when my cabinet guy built my vanity he went to a 31" center. We did not realize this until after the counter top was ordered. We are needing to get moved in so I can't change the counter top as it will takes weeks for it to come in at this point. The only thing I could come up with to make the overall look of the vanity and mirrors look halfway right is to redo my vanity which would take about a week. I am including a pic of the current vanity. When the counter top is set the sink will actually be over the right door. It is not centered between the doors or the center of the vanity. I don't like big mirrors so my goal was to set 2 - 25" mirrors however if I do this, one mirror will be over the right hand side door in the center of the sink and the center of the other one will fall in between the left drawer bank and door. I was thinking of redoing the vanity, Having a 36" drawer bank or 2 - 15" drawer banks to the left. Have the doors 24 inch space so the sink would be center of the doors and a 15" drawer bank to the left. Again I can't really do anything at this point about the counter top so I am trying to work within the confines of what I have. I am including a picture of current vanity but it isn't really going to look like anything but one big vanity .. I will also include some mock up drawings (that are not really pretty b/c I am not a drawer haha) I have place the vanity lights on back of the current vanity to show where the lights and mirrors will fall. The box on the side will represent the empty space that I would like to add a couple of open floating shelves. Also the right side will butt up against a wall, the left side is open. Any suggestions or ideas is appreciated or am I just overthinking??

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P M
5 years ago
I might suggest instead of a bank of drawers on the right you have a narrow pullout (might mean the sink cabinet and drawer base need to be wider) so that the asymmetry doesn't look like an accident. Another suggestion is to consider a lighted magnifying makeup mirror on an articulating base ( don't know if you have electrical access so if you can't have lighted just do magnifying) on the right instead of floating shelves both for practicality and to de-emphasize the assymmetry....unless you can do both shelves and mirror... Is there any reason you don't want to extend wall to wall for the cabinet?
P M
5 years ago
Also, what is the final size of the vanity? ?62 inches?
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Claudia Clifford
Original Author
5 years ago
The total size of the vanity is 82 1/2 " . I can't do wall to wall b/c on the left end of the vanity will be space to access a walk-in shower. I clearly didn't give this a good long thought or measure anything out before diving into this. (first time building a house) I did think about my current vanity and that I wanted more room on the right to put a couple of shelves b/c we are losing a tower. I thought a couple of shelves would be a cute nice added touch. I just feel there needs to be more definition between "here is the sink area" and "here is the vanity area" but the way the vanity is built it is just one long continuous vanity that seems to be missing a sink. When you walk in the bathroom you will not be walking straight into the vanity , it will run along the right side as you enter the bathroom so maybe just going with it as is, is what I need to do .. I actually drew something up that would be a 36" drawer bank (actual size with trim would be 39 1/2") on the left (light and mirror center of the drawer bank). But I am afraid 36" drawers are too big? Then on the sink side a 24" cabinet that allows the sink to center on the cabinet and a 15" drawer bank. Including the trim pieces this would be 43". the mirror and light would center the sink. This gives about 7 inches between the two mirrors and lights. It would be similar to the picture in the red I drew out but that is more specific measurements. I am about to say just keep what I have and let the mirrors and lights fall where they are.
P M
5 years ago
I love big drawers and with a vanity that large I think that size would be fine.