beautiful, marciab! Chisue, that's funny that you mention the shoes. When we moved into the current spec home, the master closet had a built in cubby for 50 pairs of shoes. Since we take them off at the front door, I never used it, and took out 2 of the vertical partitions, and did a makeshift tshirt/pants shelving area. Now, we're building, and we have both a hall closet and a mudroom designed just to store everyone's shoes by the entry. We're forced to comply with the Greenpoint checklist for new builds, and you actually get one point for having a place to put shoes in the entryway (better indoor air quality, I guess).

Thanks for asking. I bought two different versions of the James Martin Brittany vanity. A 36" one in dark wood for my entry powder room and a 72" in urban gray for my master bath. I got granite and quartz tops and sinks locally. The cabinets are gorgeous and great quality. They arrived in great condition and I love the self close drawers and doors. The only glitch was with the stone contractor whose associate twice made measuring mistakes. I had to have my contractor cut a tiny slice off the back of each of the top pullout drawers because the sink opening should have been back by one inch and the drawers could not open otherwise. So be careful with that. My only complaint is that I had to buy baskets for the interiors to hold toiletries, hair dryer, etc. because the interior shelves do not pull out. They should consider offering that as an option as makers of other cabinets do. My assessment is that they are well priced compared to the competition. Hope you enjoy them. For the others who tried to help me, it turned out that I could not enclose the washer/dryer after all so I made a countertop out of the same quartz as the sink top and bought off the shelf overhead white cabinets from Lowes to go over my LG washer and dryer. They are Shaker style and look fine with the James Martin vanity. Found matching knobs which ties things together.

I am not sure how long you want your single sink vanity but you need to reserve at least 36 in. for you make-up vanity:

Most renovations cost more than they bring back when selling. You want the home to be spic and span. You want people to see the home and think - this was well maintained. The best way to know what you should do, should not do and what to list the house for is by going out and seeing what is on the market in and around your neighborhood. A buyer is going to buy the nicest home available in their budget. To sell your home has to be the nicest home for sale at that price point. Value is determined at a $/SF / general condition, not how great the closet looks or what color granite you put in the kitchen. The biggest mistake people make is over pricing their homes. If you over price the house sits on the market, gets stale, people wonder why it is sitting, they offer less money, you lower the price and keep lowering until it finally sells and that is usually significantly less than it would have sold for if you priced it right when you listed it. One of the other money losing mistakes is to do a lot of renovations to sell. You invest $30 k and get $15 k more for the house than you would have before spending the $30k - you just gifted the new home owners $15k that you could have spent for your new home.