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HELP ME CHOOSE A POWDER ROOM VANITY

MGdecor
2 months ago

Hi everyone,
We are changing our tile in our powder room and then realized we should also change our toilet and pedestal sink while we're at it!
Our tile will be a light marble look porcelain. Our wall paper is staying!
We are limited to a 24" vanity since the room is 55"x55". I have narrowed it down to one floating vanity that comes in matte black or a gloss black. I've attached photos of my powder room and the vanity finishes the vanity is available in. The showroom had the gloss on display but imagine it in 24", just as the matte version posted.
I feel like the gloss gives more drama, but maybe the matte is cool and understated.
Please help me choose!

Comments (48)

  • jo mu
    2 months ago

    Here are the 2 so you can get an idea i did a quick photo shop with my phone.   I vote for shiny.  A vintage faucet that's maybe like a dark brass or bronze would go nicely with the look your going for.

  • jo mu
    2 months ago

    Maybe not these exactly I picked a couple antique ones from homary all under $100

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    2 months ago

    I have just spent weeks trying to find a 24" sink and know how hard it is. Still, I must say, the look of either of these sinks seems to me to bring down the elevated and elegant feel you've created of your bathroom. Your mirror and wallpaper are stunning, and this sink is much too mundane. It has good storage and is a good price. But, I'd keep looking for something with a stone top and attractive legs.



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  • zealart
    2 months ago

    If these are really the only two options that you're willing to go for, I'd go with the matt. But overall, I think the vanity ends up cheapening the wallpaper. I also don't think that black is the way to go with it. Wood, stone or a color ( not white either).Green vanity

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    Skippack Tile & Stone
    2 months ago

    Please post a photo of the floor you want to use; it sounds a bit light to the rich toned wallpaper. You want something that has the same "weight" as the walls.

  • Rachel
    2 months ago

    I like the pedestal you have better than the vanities you are considering. Some of the vanities others have shown are drop dead gorgeous. Also, I'd go for a white pedestal to constrast with the gorgeous wall paper. . . especially in the small space.

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago

    Ideally,  I would do a pedestal but the problem we've run into is the current pedestal is 36" tall and the wallpaper was installed around it. Once we remove the old pedestal,  anything we install needs to be at 36" height to conceal any wallpaper edges. That's why I started thinking of floating vanities that I could hang at that preferred height. The pedestal sinks I've seen are usually 34" and I wasn't sure how I'd fix the wallpaper problem.

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    JAN MOYER
    2 months ago

    Well. I think there are many many other papers : ) and many stunning papers in black. Not sure I'd marry myself to a paper in a re do.

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago

    We installed this paper a few years ago and I still love it. Thus,  hesitant to even consider changing the paper.

  • susan49417
    2 months ago

    Agree with posters above....the vanities you have selected look cheap and do nothing for the space. Keep looking.

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago

    I saw this earlier this week.  What do we think of this one?

  • arcy_gw
    2 months ago

    First we need to see the flooring!! Since you are using it as your excuse for changing perfectly good fixtures we need to understand your why???? The vanity you are looking at is very casual looking. The paper is rather elevated. They are a miss match of styles. I've never heard of someone thinking about lowering their vanity. One normally swaps vanities to add height. Perhaps you should wait until the paper has lived it's life and redo the entire room then.

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    Arcy_gw, we need a tall pedestal, not a shorter one.

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago

    This is the tile for the room, in a 12x24.

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    JAN MOYER
    2 months ago

    If the paper must stay? I'd consider getting a quartz solid surface, apron style........have it created at a stone fabricator. Vessel on top, or under mount a sink. Wall mount.

    Actually? I'd go BLACK solid marble on the floor, and white marble look quartz on a stone wall mount sink. Give it no more than a 12 inch apron and sides. .....and under mount the basin. Water connections ? Make them sleek....they're widely available.

    The vanity thing just feels a bit .......wrong: )

    You get the idea.....in a white. and dark on the floor










  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago

    Jan, love your idea but don't have the time and don't want to spend that kind of $$$ on this project since we are currently redoing all flooring in the home and a gut kitchen reno this summer. How about black marble tile on floor,  contemporary white pedestal, and a new white toilet to match. I'll figure out the wallpaper problem

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    JAN MOYER
    2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    Do the black marble on the floor.

    Behind the NEW pedestal sink?

    Run the same black solid !!!! tile up the wall, to the ceiling. Or to about ten inches above the new pedestal height. Make it look INTENTIONAL. Add a simpler mirror.....: )

    A little bling, goes a long way. A great light is enough, and I'd use this as an opportunity for WARM metal accents. Think burnished brass tones

    Bear in mind...........................if you rip the paper off? You are 100% freed. And there are a ton of luxurious paint colors. ....deep and rich and it need not be black. A deep dark plum....a rich teal.....etc

    Never EVER take a short cut like happened: ) Paper and pedestal sink? You take the sink OUT to paper! : )

  • PRO
    Home Interiors with Ease
    2 months ago

    Whatever tile you are doing throughout the house is what should continue into the bathroom???

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago

    We will only have tile in the entryway,  powder room, laundry room, and 2nd floor washrooms. The rest of the house is wood flooring.  All the tiled areas are separated by a door with the exclusion of the entryway. Why does the tile need to be the same? Especially if they are closed off and not open to each other.

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    Home Interiors with Ease
    2 months ago

    You always want the flooring to be as cohesive as possible…what flooring would this powder room be next to?

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago

    A hallway of white oak engineered flooring leads into the powder room. There is a door dividing the two areas ;)

  • Kendrah
    2 months ago

    I fully support your desire to save the stunning wallpaper. Have you talked to the contractor who is demo-ing the floors, and the plumber who is installing the toilet and sink, and asked them to guarantee that they can preserve the paper, unscathed during the reno process? Do you know if your wallpaper is still made just incase they damage what is on the walls now?


    Floor - I like Jan's idea of a darker floor. 12 x24 seems really large to me for this size room. Why that size instead of a smaller mosaic?


    36" height - I've learned that 36" is becoming more the norm for sink heights. But, you need 36" plus the height of your current built-in backspalsh. If you find one you like that doesn't quite fit, I'd get a 12x24 tile of your flooring (or of another flooring that works) and add it to the sink as a backsplash to cover up any wallpaper openings.


    $$$ - Yep, no reason to go bonkers on a custom made sink. There are plenty of affordable options out there. I do like the one you posted below with the black legs. I got quoted $6,800 for a custom wall hung 24" vanity! Instead, I am purchasing just the sink top of a pedestal sink and having my contractor attach it as a wall hung. $250!


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    Home Interiors with Ease
    2 months ago

    Is it a white oak flooring or dark stained?

  • PRO
    Home Interiors with Ease
    2 months ago

    Are you keeping the frameless mirror?

  • Maureen
    2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    Although you love the wallpaper but are having to make many concessions around it, if it were me I wouldn’t be basing choices on the paper. Choose the flooring and vanity/pedestal you love, as they are bigger commitments. Have a cohesive plan (look on line for inspiration).

    If wanting wallpaper, it‘s an easier addition at the end and I’d go more fun, but you may even decide not to use.





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    JAN MOYER
    2 months ago

    The paper is dictating everything! Why?

    I'd run the white oak floor right into the powder room. I'd TRY......no matter you love it, to consider a different paper or paint. There are a billion ways to gorgeous. Paint, art on the walls, mirror.

    And most of all? Unified floors are always the best floors. It's not a wet bath.........It's a wash your hands spot:)

    Maybe ask yourself, with all the other things going on? Does the powder need a re do at this very MOMENT. Maybe not.

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    Home Interiors with Ease
    2 months ago

    🤗add whit modern toilet and sink..

  • Kendrah
    2 months ago

    I'm curious what the reasoning is for those in favor of running the wood flooring into the powder room? I have always avoided doing so because I like the mental separation of having a powder room being an very separate space, with its own unique flooring.


    I'd certainly redo my powder room at the same time as all of those other contractors are in my home. It is hard to get trades people to do small projects these days.


  • jo mu
    2 months ago

    I love the wall paper definitely keep it! and if i understand correctly your on a budget?  If so maybe just buy a new toliet cover? I think the vanity you mentioned in the comments is better I agree that the original suggestion doesn't go with the other choices your making.  I think the wallpaper and mirror are very art deco and glam and the original picks looked too modern minimalist ikea. 


    Can we see your lighting in the room??


    And as others have said consider painting the trim dark

  • jo mu
    2 months ago

    I love the wall paper definitely keep it! and if i understand correctly your on a budget?  If so maybe just buy a new toliet cover? I think the vanity you mentioned in the comments is better I agree that the original suggestion doesn't go with the other choices your making.  I think the wallpaper and mirror are very art deco and glam and the original picks looked too modern minimalist ikea. 


    Can we see your lighting in the room??


    And as others have said consider painting the trim dark

  • jo mu
    2 months ago

    I would love a black marble top in that bathroom instead of the white with a black sink and a warm toned antique faucet fixture (it would match the bronze in the wall paper). 


     If your trying to stay within a budget since you're space is so small you can probably go to a stone yard and find a remnant piece of stone and have it fabricated for only 100 and you can get a bowl sink to go on top.

  • A M
    2 months ago
    last modified: 2 months ago

    The Bath Outlet has lots of smaller options at that height (look for Scarabeo by Nameeks) https://www.thebathoutlet.com/









  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    2 months ago

    A M, I like the sinks you posted but looks like they only ship to the US. I'm in Canada  :(

  • PRO
    Home Interiors with Ease
    2 months ago

    Just keep in mind black sinks always look dirty! If you can avoid a black sink I would! Black base or legs but white sink…white toilet.

  • Maureen
    2 months ago
    last modified: last month

    Amazon Canada below and try Wayfair.




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    JAN MOYER
    2 months ago

    " we are currently redoing all flooring in the home and a gut kitchen reno this summer"

    For the "curious"

    Most new high end builds will run hardwood as much throughout a first floor as much as possible possible. Meaning yes......right into the powder room as it is NO wetter than your kitchen! You get unity...always a good thing. There's no threshold.....and "defining" the room? That is paint, art, paper, etc. No different than any other room you'd like to set apart! No different than a front foyer you might define with a great rug, console and lamps.

    Sorry...... but to literally PAPER yourself into a corner? This makes no sense to me. : )

    Designers know (too well in fact ! ) that there are many things to love.....papers , paint art.. There are a thousand ways to an absolutely fabulous powder room, and my bet is none have to occur in the next week.

  • Kendrah
    2 months ago

    "No different than any other room you'd like to set apart!"


    A powder room is very different than any other room you'd like to set apart. After all we don't really go in there to powder our noses. There are certain smells and sounds that just don't happen in a foyer or any other room. Mentally I just like to have a complete division in the powder room to maintain the fantasy that what happens in the powder room stays in the powder room! Plus, you can certainly have two different floors meet without a change in elevation.

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    last month

    Ok, here's an update. We have extra wallpaper laying around and our paper installer said it's no problem to do a touch up after we install a new sink. We ordered a console style sink with black legs. Plan to purchase a new toilet, brushed gold 1 lever faucet and coordinating decorative plumbing (p trap and water supply lines), and new simple mirror with brushed gold frame. Next on agenda is the tile. Jan suggested black marble.  I have found 2 options. Is it too much black? Please let me know what you think. Thanks!

  • DC Reno
    last month

    Your sink is great! Is the black tile for the floor? I personally wouldn’t do that because it shows so much dirt. My vote if for continuing the hardwood floors into the powder room.

  • PRO
    Home Interiors with Ease
    last month

    My vote no black floor.

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    last month

    I like the black tile but now that I see the samples in the room I think it'll feel like a cave!

  • Paul F.
    last month

    No. A dark moody bathroom is amazing! If your floor is not dark then the counter top needs to be. Be daring.

  • MGdecor
    Original Author
    last month

    How about this marble mosaic with a little brass inlay?

  • PRO
    Home Interiors with Ease
    last month

    I absolutely love that!

  • K L
    last month

    I like the gloss black. And I LOVE your wallpaper!

  • K L
    last month

    I think you are getting yourself into a mess here. I'd take the oak floor in that room and go from there... later. The powder room should be a jewel on the surrounding space, not the back side of the wardrobe in the children's story.

  • Andee
    last month

    Agree with KL, above. The reno is becoming a series of micro changes without a cohesive vision. If you squint at the second pic in the original posting, you can almost imagine the oak floor. It will be fine with the wallpaper. So paint the baseboards and window trim black; hang the brush-gold framed mirror, keep the existing pedestal sink; change out the toilet (what the heck). Later, when the rest of the house is done, get a new pedestal and change the flooring and re-paper as you wish.