How custom-made cabinetry can benefit your bathroom renovation
Bathroom cabinetry facilitates important storage for toiletries, makeup, medicine, as well as hair and beard tools. Such storage may be provided by vanities, tallboys, shelves, and shaving cabinets. Renovating the bathroom is an ideal time to take advantage of the benefits of custom-made cabinetry to make the most of the space available and create a storage solution that perfectly suits your interior design.
As previously mentioned, the most common types of cabinetry in the bathroom are vanities, tall boys, and shaving cabinets. Here we will discuss the various types and styles so as to help guide you when making selections.
Vanities:
The most common storage for bathrooms would have to be the vanity. It can be challenging to find the perfect vanity ready-made in store. Trying to find the right size, with the type of bowl combinations that are preferred, the desired colour, and with the exact storage design needed can be impossible. This is where having a custom-made vanity is most appealing. Not only can it be built to perfectly suit your bathroom design, but it can be built to make the most of your bathroom space by extending its measurements beyond the standard sizes. This can mean cabinetry can extend from wall-to-wall, or be perfectly centred on the wall. The beauty is that the vanity can be made to suit your bathroom design and layout, rather than working your bathroom layout around standard sized store purchased vanities.
Vanities may be wall hung or floor mount. Wall hung tend to be the more popular choice when renovating the bathroom, with most homeowners opting for this style. Wall hung vanities not only provide a contemporary look but enhance the sense of space within the bathroom by showing off more floor area. Additionally, wall hung vanities make cleaning the bathroom floor easier requiring just a simple swipe underneath with a vacuum or mop.
Floor mount vanities tend to be utilised in more traditional styled homes such as federation or traditional Hampton interior designs. These are best combined with tallboys that extend the cabinetry from wall to wall, either to one side of the vanity or either side with the vanity in the middle.
Tallboys:
As mentioned above, tallboys create extra storage in the bathroom typically used to store larger items that simply do not fit or take up too much room in the vanity. Items such as towels, toilet paper, and back stock items like shampoos, conditioners, and soaps etc. Also ideal for bath toys, a training potty, and step stool storage for families with young children.
Pull out hampers may also be included in this type of cabinetry and is a convenient way to collect dirty clothes that need laundering. This is especially handy when the laundry room is on a different level to the bathroom.
Shaving cabinets:
Shaving cabinets, also known as mirrored wall cabinets, provide the all important face level storage we hear so much about from TV home renovation shows. This type of cabinetry utilises the space that is typically reserved for the bathroom mirror with hidden storage that places items at eye level and within easy reach. Shaving cabinets can be recessed into the wall cavity creating a streamlined look that avoids crowding the vanity area and enhancing the sense of space within the bathroom.
When a powerpoint is installed inside the shaving cabinet, it provides the perfect storage space for electric toothbrushes, freeing up space on the vanity when they are charging. Shaving cabinets are ideal for storing smaller items that are used daily, such as toothbrushes, floss, face creams, and deodorants. Additionally, this type of cabinetry is the perfect place to store medicine, prescription creams, and other items that are required to be kept out of reach from young children.
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