We have a center tower on our 8' double sink vanity and really like it. Since you have a 10' wide space having 2 towers on either end would be nice. These are the things I learned when designing it:
- Make it shallower than 12". I found that if the tower is deep, it will look like someone plunked a kitchen cabinet on your counter. Mine is 9" deep x 20" wide.
- Make sure there is plenty of elbow room around the sinks. With a 10' wide space you'll have plenty.
- Since you have 10' of space, if you wanted a center tower, you could design your tower to be on the shallow side, but a bit wider then you typically see in pictures. That way it won't protrude as much, but you will still get plenty of storage inside. If it's wide, you could have 2 doors. They can be hinged in the middle if you want, that way each person can open it and it will be open to their side. If doing side towers, still make them shallower than the typical 12", and have the hinges on the outside so the door opens the right way for each person.
- Design your tower for your needs: if you want exposed storage, leave things open or have glass. If you want closed storage use doors. We have doors and glass at the top.
- If using glass or open areas in your tower, consider putting in lighting
- Put adjustable shelves inside because the items you want to store may change in height over the years.
- Put electrical in your tower. We charge our electric toothbrushes in the tower. If you design your tower to be wide, you could put 2 outlets for toothbrushes, razer, etc.
- For more electrical on the outside, you can put a dummy panel at the bottom and put electrical on the outside, low down on the tower and turn the outlets sideway. You may prefer your electrical to go in your side walls or somewhere else. For us, it's in the tower. If you are doing side towers, your electrical could easily go in the bottom on the outside of each tower.
- figure out where you are going to hang your hand towels before you finalize your design. Could go on the sides of the towers, on the side walls, on a towel holder, etc. Just make sure to decide before you pull the trigger.
- If possible, find a way to "tie" it to the ceiling. What I mean is, don't leave it open and unattached at the top. In one of the photos above, it is tied to the ceiling through a dummy panel and then lots of molding at the top. Tie this into the crown molding of the room. Sometimes you see a picture where the person did a fur-down or bulk-head to tie it to the ceiling and then they can put small LED lights in there. Both of those look better than leaving it open at the top IMO, but of course that's a personal preferences and either solution works.
- Protect the bottoms of you towers: I saw this picture on HOUZZ as I was designing mine:
I replicated this in my bathroom. Just have your fabricator make a piece of your countertop material using the same edge profile as on your counter. That goes down on your counter and the tower is installed on top. This will protect the wood of your tower from any spills. Over the years, small spills and dribbles can add up to damage.
P.S. In the picture above, I like how the middle of the vanity bumps out in front of the tower. We weren't able to do this in our bathroom, but I think it looks really nice.
- Have your drawers line up with your towers. Like in the picture above, have vanity drawers that are the same width as your tower. That'll work with 2 side towers also.
I love towers if there is sufficient room, which you certainly have with 10'.
Good luck with your project!
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