Bathroom Vanities - Add a Unique Touch to Your Bathroom

The bathroom vanities are the special furniture serving a dual purpose of washing as well as storage. They accommodate a washbasin and store cabinet surrounding the sink. The bathroom vanity may also hold a mirror for dressing up.

Whatever is the bathroom style, a sink and a cupboard are the basic things one should check for his/her bathroom. The cupboard is valuable for its multipurpose use like storing kid's bath accessories and toys, hide toiletries and cleaning products to free space in the bathroom. One can install the cupboard separately beneath the sink.

Such bathroom vanity is available with a pre-cut slot for the sink and can be easily fit in the bathroom. The cupboard may be a simple one with drawers or a contemporary model with many features, like holder for roll-in towels, pullout drawers, sliding doors etc.

Wood has been preferred as the body material for bathroom vanities for long. Marble combined with wood gives an elegant touch to them. Nowadays ply board, PVC, tiles are replacing old pure wood models. The combination for the upper surface and walls of the vanity can be a mix and match of mosaic tiles with Venetian plaster, marble with wood, granite on wood or granite with Venetian plaster or simple ply board with PVC coat.

Normally there is only one sink in a bathroom vanity. However, experienced designers concluded that in our daily busy schedule we end up sharing the bathroom with a significant family member or roommate at the same time. Hence they are designing two-basin bathroom vanities to suit perfectly for big families or in shared apartments. One can accommodate two sinks in a granite slab with two cut swaths on a larger vanity cupboard.

Home designs keep on changing with time, but some contemporary bathroom vanities are designed so well that one would love to keep them in his bathroom for years. Some contemporary vanities are simple cabinet and sink hung on the wall rather than classic box.

Most popular shades for bath vanities are dark to medium tones of wood in classic models. Recently the sable touch on wood, very dark cocoa finish and black are on the high. These shades are in accent with the wall, easy to maintain and hardly need repaint cost. The tone of eggplant glaze is also popular among high priced models.

The faucet, fixtures impart the final effect on bath vanities. Classy models use polished chrome, satin or plain nickel; brass is used in antique models. Finally proper lighting and placement of bathroom vanities mark the last impression of one's insight.