Defining your Cabinet Style

Bathroom vanities display a certain decorative style and will reflect your personality and taste in your bathrooms decor. No more is the bathroom vanity design bland and lack luster. It is now the perfect place to allow all your bathroom ideas to flow and express your decorating flair. The best place to start a design is with your vanity cabinet and other bathroom cabinets. This will allow you to establish an overall design and style which can be reinforced with fittings, different counter surfaces, bathroom fixtures and bath accessories. Maybe you are looking for an easy country style bathroom vanity appeal which would maybe begin with pine wood cabinets with a light stain or maybe a subtle distressed painted finish. A bead board white painted bathroom vanity unit will also give you that country bathroom.

Traditional Style Bathroom

A traditionally styled decor bathroom would be more slightly formal in appearance. For this vanity cabinet you could choose a rich medium or maybe a beautiful dark toned style of wood enhanced by using brass hardware with a few fine bathroom fixture details like having raised panels, applied molding or maybe some rope trim. A creative contemporary bathroom vanity would be a clean lined vanity cabinet finished off with laminate, light toned wood like birch or maybe hash wood with very little cabinetry hardware. For a period bathroom designs such as the Victorian bathroom décor, the use of dark and ornamental wood carved designs is one way you could create the cabinet. You may as another choice have a Victorian style that is lighter where you could feature a white painted wood cabinet with a marble top sank in and some simple detailing bathroom hardware accessories.

Bathroom Vanity Cabinet Construction

In these days of vanity cabinet manufacturing and all styles of home improvement products, sometimes the really cheap and discounted vanity cabinets are not always the best choice. So make sure you protect yourself from a poor vanity quality. By checking a few things this will allow you to find a good quality piece of bathroom furniture. You should first check the drawers and make sure they open smoothly and close smoothly. If they don't and you can see they are held together with staples, nails and glue, this would indicate poor quality. Check the interiors to see that they are finished including rear surfaces.

If there are shelves in the vanity unit make sure you can adjust them. Also a good sign of quality is that the shelves are 5/8" thick or more to prevent them from bowing. High quality fine wood vanity cabinets or strong plywood with solid wood doors will be protected from regular wear and tear of the moisture in the bathroom. On the other side particleboard or any laminate over particleboard will not be able to stand up to the moisture and can rapidly warp, peel or even cup. By choosing good quality wood and bath cabinet hardware you will have a beautiful vanity cabinet that will last a very long time in your bathrooms decor.

Bathroom Vanity Cabinet Finishes

In today's finishes for your bathroom vanity and other bathroom furniture, richness in design is the in thing, where plain and dull is out according to the interior designers along with other bathroom designers. In today's bathroom décor people are looking for comfort in their bathroom both visually and physically. Jacuzzi tubs and showers pamper our bodies but people need more, and that's where your modern bathroom vanity will usually please you and give you a beautiful ambience. The wave for more richness along with beautiful visual comfort has brought back wood vanity furniture, especially the warm mellow woods like mahogany, cherry and maple. Having glazed finishes is also on the up swing with two methods:

One is to apply a clear coat to the natural wood to gain more depth and character, and the other method is to create a beautiful antique patina on other pieces which will give you a warm yet elegant bathroom vanity. The newer designs are starting to emphasize to the rich, softer color. If you have a stark white vanity its time to find some warmer whites that are painted finishes and laminate that are in the more off-white so the bathroom is not so shocking. You could pick very pale yellows, a biscuit or some delicate pastels. Everything is a personal touch, so the best for you to do is to sit down and start writing out some vanity ideas on colors and bathroom themes that are appealing to you. Search some informational websites and visit a bathroom home improvement store to gain more ideas, and in the end you will be awarded with a beautiful and creative bathroom décor.

Arthor and Source: Daryl Plaza

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