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Looking for the perfect bathroom vanity!

3 years ago

Hi! we are remodeling out forever home and master bathroom. Right now we are looking for a 72 double vanity with STORAGE (preferably a storage tower on top) but cant find anything we love. Should we do a 60 inch vanity with a 12 inch storage tower on one side? or a small double vanity so we can have two storage towers? I am new to this so please help!

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Helen
3 years ago
Where are you looking?

A good kitchen/bath store would carry lines of cabinets/vanities that would give you what you want in terms of specific size and configuration.

Or if you have really specific needs, you could have a local shop do a custom vanity for you. I had all my cabinets (kitchen and baths) done by a local shop and so everything is exactly what I wanted.
AJCN
3 years ago
We had a local custom cabinet builder make our 80” vanity with storage tower in the middle. Ask around for a referral. My referral came from a very good painter I’ve hired in the past. Another time, my designer referred me to her favorite cabinet builder.
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I had the exact same problem. I picked out the vanity I wanted but did not think about the fact that it wasn't made to sit flush against the wall. I spent a month looking for something else, but in the end we decided to go with something shorter and have it not be against the wall. But we were going from 72" to 60" which is probably not workable in your mom's situation. I did find a lot of vanities that did have flat sides and could work in a corner, if you are willing to have the countertop fabricated. They just need to not have any trim detail on the top or bottom like the one you picked out does. I would just look at the ones without the pre-made tops. Because the pre-made top will still leave you with a slight gap because of the countertop overhang. This is an example: Avanity Modero which is sold everywhere, not just at Lowe's. The cabinet we ended up buying is an Avanity Madison which won't work for you, but I assume it is of similar quality. We are pretty happy with it. The drawers and doors have soft close but I do feel like the glides in my Ikea kitchen drawers are better quality. It is very pretty and I wanted a stained wood so I am really happy with our choice. If I had been willing to go with a painted finish, I think we might have stuck with the 72" Modero.
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AJCN
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No matter where you put the tower, put an electrical outlet low and turned sideways on the outside (2 if your tower is in the middle). Also put an outlet inside for charging toothbrushes or a razor. Here’s a trick I learned on HOUZZ: I was looking at pictures of towers and I noticed one that had an extra piece of stone under it. It was like the tower was sitting on a cutting board. The HOUZZ designer said that is to protect the wood from water damage over the years. So we had our fabricator make an extra piece of marble, with the same edge profile as the counter, and the exact dimensions of the tower. That was placed in the middle and the tower placed on top of that.

Also consider your ceiling height and if you want the tower to “float” or attach to the ceiling. Look at HOUZZ pics and you will see that some people let the tower float, others fur the ceiling down and put small can lights in there. Others tie the tower to the ceiling with trim work. If your ceilings are 8’ or so t’s pretty easy to just put normal trim. But ours are 10’ so we had to decide how to handle that.

Sorry to go on so long but I’ve got opinions about towers obviously! IMO deep towers look too bulky, like someone stuck a kitchen cabinet on the vanity. Ours is only 9” deep. It’s plenty big for storage and doesn’t look bulky or loom large visually. It’s 15” wide. You can put a bank of drawers below in the same width as your tower. We love our tower. The ease of putting things away helps keep the area uncluttered.

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