Let Your Powder Room
Vanity Reflect Shameless Good Taste In
Bath Design
Prolonged
gazing into one’s bathroom mirror used to be considered quite a vice. For
vanity, it is said, is the step-sister of pride. With nothing more
to the bathrooms of yesteryear than a sink, toilet, and mirror, we were offered little choice about where our
focus should fall once through the bathroom door. And while Narcissus brought
his own demise through excessive "self-reflection" we can probably be
forgiven for rendering the bathroom mirror as our observation point
of choice.
The Afterthought
After
all, the bathroom used to be the
afterthought of home building and design. Bathroom design kept to the basics :
A toilet, sink-cabinet combo, and perhaps some tile. Add some color matching,
a couple of wall hangings, and of course, the mirror, and voila : your task was complete!
In
hindsight, designing yesterday’s
bathroom was really a simple and efficient process. In hindsight, creating such a bathroom was magnificently
uninspiring, unimaginative, and dull.
With
limited choices, and prohibitive pricing,
vanities of distinction rarely entered
the equation for a homeowner without a numeral at the end of their name. Even
for those with limitless means, such a
task usually involved finding the right piece of furniture in the appropriate
size before hiring a carpenter (to cut a hole into the top) and a plumber (to
retrofit a sink and plumbing). It required resourcefulness, planning, lots of time, and even more cash.
The Fine Furniture Revolution
The
rethinking of bathroom designs came with the increasing availability of
reasonably-priced middle and high-end vanity sink chests. With foreign imports
driving down the cost and increasing the availability of fine furniture for
every room in the home, builders and
consumers began to consider investing more design dollars in the room guests
very often visit -- the powder room. By choosing vanity styles to coincide with
their home's overall design genre, consumers have driven expansion in the
vanity/sink chest market that produced a bevy of elegant and affordable
products. Ball and Claw traditional vanities, French Provincial style sink chests, and hand-painted and hand-carved furniture
sinks -- the vanity market has truly embraced the realm of fine furniture.
Never before have vanity choices been so plentiful or bathroom sink design
concepts so broad. It's not the usual sink and cabinet combo anymore; it's a
whole new ball game.
A Statement Piece - A Statement Place
Forget
about Narcissus, and make your vanity a
virtue. Let your vanity make a statement about you. Keep the New Yorker and
Reader’s Digest, for sure, but let your bathrooms tell more about you
than just your literary preferences. Make a gorgeous vanity the focal point of
your bath, and with a painted canvas
work of art, some carefully contemplated
accessories, and perhaps even a
beautiful chandelier, allow the bathroom
to complement your taste and your commitment to design throughout your home.
Don’t
reflect too long before deciding it’s time for a beautiful furniture vanity in
your fine home. I promise you’ll love yourself for it! bath vanity, bathroom
decor, powder room sink cabinet, sink chest vanities
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