Bathroom Design Section
Bathroom Furniture
Bathroom furniture has many roles to fulfill. However, you must be careful to avoid an excessive clutter. The functionality of the bathroom is to have enough mobility and safety around you. Thus, it is important to prioritise which bathroom furniture is needed and which one is not.
Bathroom Furniture Composition
The idea is to compose the bathroom furniture into existing fixtures and not other way around.
Simply put, it is more expensive to change the setup of baths and bathroom showers rather than bathroom cabinets.
The focal point of the bathroom furniture are basins.
Here, you can use vanity units, pedestal bathroom sinks or wall mounted basins.
The wall mounted basins is the cheapest option but the space underneath can be used to store towels and/or accessories.
In this case, you either buy a ready drawer set or compose the area into a vanity unit.
There is vey little you can do around baths or showers.
However, there is plenty of space on the walls.
The wall mounted bathroom furniture is very popular in modern bathrooms.
It is unobstructive and practical.
The mirror cabinets are especially a clever idea to provide an extra bathroom mirror for grooming and the storage for important bathroom accessories.
Vanity Units Prices
The free-standing vanity units are expensive.
They can cost in the region of $500-$900.
However, these products hold the bathroom basins, store personal grooming items and towels.
This type of bathroom furniture can also contain cleaning products and other bathroom necessities.
In essence, vanity units are an essential element of the properly working bathroom.
You can imitate a more expensive vanity sets with a cheaper options.
For example, building a plastic cabinet around a pedestal or counter sink will offer similar functionality.
Some of these plastic units cost as little as $150.
Wall Cabinets Prices
Bathroom cabinets have been popular since 60s where new materials made this furniture suitable for high humidity areas.
At the same time the explosion of the plastic industry greatly reduced the price of bathroom cabinets and cupboards.
Today, the wall mounted units offer space for personal grooming items without compromising the movement.
The basic wall mounted bathroom furniture can cost as little as $150 per 40cm by 50cm cabinet.
The double door mirror options are about $300 each.
A lot of mirror cabinets come with an internal light. This is especially useful during the grooming and the makeup procedure.
Free Standing Units
There is a large selection of free standing bathroom furniture.
These units are used for storing larger items like sheets, towels and cleaning products.
Not all bathroom cupboards need to be boring.
Some come with interesting designs such as T-drawers, drawers-cupboard composition and shelf-cupboard setups.
For custom-made products there is no limit to what you can achieve.
However, always keep in mind that bathroom needs a safe space around the shower, bath and sink.
Too much bathroom furniture may compromise the safety and functionality.