Do these custom vanity proportions look right?
We've been working with our kitchen and bath designer and I'm concerned whether everything is in balance on our guest room vanity. If you have good spatial abilities, could you look this over? I have a lot of questions, but I'll be happy if you can tackle any one of them! Thank you!
My thoughts so far:
1.) The sink base will be 28 or 30". The drawer cabinet is ~15" wide. I'm not sure if the proportion is right between the sink base and drawers. The hutch plays into this too. See #2.
2.) Whatever width I make the drawers, I need to do the same to the counter hutch. Is 15" too wide for a counter hutch? Is 12" better? The hutch will be mirrored and can be recessed into the wall. I don't want the hutch to overpower, and he's probably drawn it too tall.
3.) I want to optimize counter space. I can recess an 11" hutch cabinet into the wall and have a few inches sit on the counter. The question is how many inches? I think somewhere between 6 and 8".
4.) I'm undecided on the drawer division, but the bottom drawers are 8". That's fixed since it's my towel storage. The three drawers above those are 6,6,and 8. Does the 8" work with the sixes? Note I have a trim piece between the two eights.
5.) I'm not sure about the mirror design yet. It's drawn with a wide top frame to install a light fixture right into the frame, but I need to get some expert advice about lighting this room anyway. There's no window and no other light source. The mirrored hutch will need light too.
I'm going to post an inspiration photo of a recessed mirrored hutch and a similar vanity next. Thank you!
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11 years agoThese are recessed 12" W mirrored hutches. I will probably put a 6" H drawer at the bottom, though I like this look too.
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11 years agoSame idea, without the hutch. I'm just not sure the mirrored cabinet makes sense attached to the main mirror and DH prefers the hutch idea, but it's my call. But if we do one large mirror over the entire vanity, we lose the wall storage. Not that I can't use the drawers instead.
Or I can put in a 60" vanity with a lot of drawers, center the sink, and put a framed mirror over the whole thing.
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11 years agoOne option that still gives you the furniture piece look. But it has better proportionality with the tall piece next to the vertical wall. It's the exact same amount of storage, but looks more balanced.
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11 years agoAnother option that gives you even more storage. Again, it's much more balanced. Dropping the mirror frame and molding from the tower height gives more visual interest and keeps it from being so overwhelming. If you used your idea for mirror fronted towers, it would be less visual mass as well.
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11 years agoAnother option that has less symmetry on board, but still balances the height more proportionately and because it has more negative space around the mirror, still looks more spacious and balanced.
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11 years agoWhat we have here is a woman and her ruler!
I drew GreenDesign's option #2 with 12" hutches. How are the proportions now?
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