Bathroom Design
A Furniture Look for Your Bathroom Vanity
Give your vanity custom style with carved legs, molding and furniture details
We get many questions from Houzz users asking us where they can get this or that bathroom vanity, and often the answer is that the vanity is a custom or semi-custom piece, not a standalone readymade piece.
But even when vanities are assembled from stock cabinets, you can achieve a very custom look by adding a few furniture style details. These vanities may look like freestanding pieces of furniture, but they're anything but. Here's a few of my favorite examples, with a few freestanding retail options as well.
But even when vanities are assembled from stock cabinets, you can achieve a very custom look by adding a few furniture style details. These vanities may look like freestanding pieces of furniture, but they're anything but. Here's a few of my favorite examples, with a few freestanding retail options as well.
Furniture style doesn't have to be super-ornate. The simple addition of legs that raise the cabinet off the floor transforms a vanity into a piece of furniture.
Furniture base molding. If seeing (and cleaning) under a bathroom cabinet just isn't your cup of tea, there's always this option: furniture base moulding combined with a recessed toekick behind so you don't have clean under the cabinets.
From eye level, you can't even see the recessed toekick behind the the furniture base, but it tricks you into thinking the cabinets are standing on feet.
Decorative molding details. The simple addition of a piece of molding between the upper drawers and lower doors adds a level of detail you don't see on a standard stock cabinet. The molding and base molding transforms this into a furniture-style piece.
Victoria Collection Vanity
If a custom-made vanity isn't in your future, and you're looking for a readymade furniture style vanity, there are a few on the market, like this one from Fairmont Designs, that are pretty terrific.
Louis XVI Double Vanity Sink
It’s not easy to find a readymade double bowl vanity cabinet, and Restoration Hardware has made that a bit easier on us all by offering a handful of styles and sizes.
Tip: The reason that vanities similar to the one shown here aren't available off the shelf in stores or online is often due to size. You might see a 48" single-bowl, furniture-style vanity available as a readymade product, but a vanity such as the one shown in this photo is designed to fit the space exactly — "fitted" precisely between two walls.