Bathroom Hamper/Cabinets Thoughts?
Any thoughts on the design for a short wall of cabinets for our master bathroom? This does not include the vanity which will be 6.5' long. Our place is a bit short on storage so that's what I tried to gear everything towards. FWIW we already have the hamper baskets for the two locations indicated, they're intended to be one each for light and dark colors. I'm tempted to swap out the open cabinets at the bottom left for two drawers instead.
I can provide pics of the space this afternoon if it helps any.
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roarah
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoI have an old house with tiny reach in closets so we too opted to add storage in the bath, instead of a tub in my case. I actually keep my most worn seasonal clothes and my DH stores his work wardrobe in our new bath. We have two very strong fans, one in the room the other in the shower stall.
We were going with a custom cabinet design but my DH was diagnosed with cancer the week after we started the addition so we fiscally scaled down and for now are using IKEA pax with a dresser vanity we rigged for the sink and I am not sure I ever want to change it! They are so functional. We are using four 19x15x93 units and we have open hampers on the sides that will be built in if/ when we decide to upgrade to custom wardrobes.
I like open storage somewhere in all bathrooms so add the drawers behind the closed storage. Can you explain your storage demands/ wishes. Is it for linens or wardrobe?
here are my pax fitted for clothes storage. It is hard to photograph the whole wall. The wall is thirteen ft. It has two 14 inch free standing hampers at each corner, one dresser as a vanity and 80 inches of wardrobe boxes and I have open storage in a bench and table on the other walls. It is almost to much storage. If I did not keep our most used clothes in this room I think at least a third would be empty. So I think you have more than enough storage in your plan.
Drawer storage, love this it is wired for my hair equipment.
The pax boxes can be put all of n a row not separated like mine too.
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7 years agoschicksal
7 years agoCool, thanks!! That's along the same line I was thinking with regard to the open shelving breaking things up a bit. The cabinet company we went with last time for our kitchen offered shelves that can be adjusted the usual way with little pegs on the side and we like what they put together. The pictures should show the space we're working with. The closet (including washer and dryer) are in the same area. We have the goodies that go in the PAX closet shelving in but not the actual frame since it is too big for our VW (and IKEA is 3 hours away) and has to be delivered.
schicksal
7 years ago
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