Do I need to match cabinet hardware to other bathroom fixtures?
katherineafrick
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just_julie
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matching fixtures in the bathroom?? please help!!
Comments (9)It does not need to match. But that's my opinion. Some folk are more sensitive to matchy-match finishes than others. If you really feel compelled that you need to have it all match for your own satisfaction, then have at it. But if you're matching it because you think others may think your design choices odd...I encourage you to design for yourself. Not others. More opinion: Think of things being in groupings. The shower. The vanity above the countertop (faucet, etc). The vanity below the countertop (door/drawer knobs and pulls). And so on. Sometimes everything all matchy-match is just wonderful. Sometimes it's overwhelming or monotonous. Too much of the same. Too much variety can look haphazard and disconcerting to the eye. There's no flow. But there's a sweet spot in between, I think all can be well as long as things somehow relate to one another. I always go along the lines of style being one thing, color another, and finish a third. Again, it's usually good to keep them some of those three things related as you go from one grouping to the next. A contemporary "some thing" might not look right next to a traditional "other thing", especially if one was a patina'd ORB and the other was polished chrome. All three things are different. My master bathroom has to be the least matching of any I've seen. My wife picked out what she wanted, but we grouped things together. She chose ORB sconces, so I painted the mirror in between the sconces to match the color of the ORB. I felt having the mirror the same color as the sconces sort of added visual mass to that grouping. Without the ORB-colored mirror, the sconces might have looked lonely out there on their own. That's one grouping. We have a polished nickel faucet on top of the countertop. However, below the countertop, the knobs and hinges are brushed pewter. While different, they relate as they're in the same color family and similar in style. My wife's countertop make-up mirror? Polished chrome. In the shower? Polished Chrome. All by itself, its own grouping. All that non-matching stuff, it may sound absolutely gawd-awful, and some might think it is. But my wife is happy with how it looks, and if she's happy, I am too. One thing I will say is that in the design and construction phase, you fret over every detail. But after 6 months you'll probably grow blind to the things that kept you awake at night with worry....See MoreDo bathroom cabinets have to match the kitchen?
Comments (15)hi calimama.. Well...here's my story. We had leftover granite, so since we were re-doing our powder room as well, we used it for the vanity. The vanity cabinet is a similar stain color as our kitchen cabs, and I also had leftover backsplash tile, so we used that too!! I am not a matchy-matchy person at all...and I don't think it's required that your bathroom and kitchen match. But since you are remodeling both, I think it may as well flow nicely if possible. Mine just so happen to look ...well ...alot alike. But heck...I wasn't about to let my granite and backsplash marble go to waste! KA:) Here is a link that might be useful: my matchy-matchy powder room...haha......See Morepolished nickel bathroom fixtures - do sconces have to match?
Comments (5)Hi Jan Moyer 4 years later! I have everything polished nickel because you are so right- other finishes don’t seem to work with it. (I do have frames for my paintings but they bring out the best in the painting so I’m not including that in my polished nickel everything else.) Now I’m looking for soap dispensers and I’m having a hard time as the pumps are chrome, brass, black or ORB. Any suggestions? Am I being too picky? Ty!!...See MoreDo I need to match all the bathroom cabinets,flooring same for house
Comments (2)How about picking a different for each. The two with the same tile for the guest baths and the other for the master. Or do all the same floor tiles but different cabinets and/or counters if you like....See Moreraehelen
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