Home Improvement

Prolonged gazing into one’s bathroom mirror used to be considered fairly representative. For the vanity, it is said, is a step-sister pride. With no more to the bathroom from the earlier of the sink, toilet, and mirror, we offer many choices about where our focus should fall once through the bathroom door. And while Narcissus brought his own death through excessive “self-reflection,” we might be forgiven for rendering the bathroom mirror as our observation point of choice.

The reflections

After all, the bathroom used to be a reflection of houses and design. Bathroom design kept to the basics: A toilet, sink-cabinet combo, and perhaps some tile. Add some color matching, a few wall hangings, and of course, a mirror, and voila: your task is complete! In hindsight, designing yesterday’s bathroom is really a simple and efficient process. In hindsight, making such a bathroom was magnificently uninspiring, unimaginative, and dull. With limited options, and affordable prices, vanity distinction rarely entered the equation for the homeowner without a number at the end of their names. Even for those with limitless means, such a task usually involved finding the right furniture in the appropriate sizes before hiring a carpenter (to cut a hole into the top) and a plumber (to retrofit the sink and plumbing). This required understanding, planning, a lot of time, and even more cash.

The Fine Furniture Revolution

The thought of re-design of the bathroom comes with the increasing availability of enough middle-price and high-end chest vanity sinks. With foreign imports driving down the cost and increase the availability of good furniture for every room in the house, contractors and consumers begin to consider investing more design dollars in the living room very often visit – the powder room. By choosing vanity styles to coincide with the genre of the overall design of their homes, consumers have driven expansion in the vanity / sink chest market that produced a bevy of elegant and affordable products. Ball and Claw traditional pride, the French provincial style sink chests, and hand-painted and hand carved furniture sinks – vanity market has truly embraced the field of good furniture. Never before have vanity choices so plentiful or bathroom sink design concepts so broad. This is not the usual sink and cabinet combo anymore, but rather an entirely new ball game.

A Piece Statement – Statement of Place

Forget about Narcissus, and make a virtue of your makeup. 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 dressing your bathroom beautiful focal point, and with a canvas painting artwork, some accessories carefully pondered, and perhaps even a beautiful light, allowing the bathroom to complement your taste and your commitment to design throughout your home. Does not reflect too long before deciding it was time for a beautiful furniture vanity in your fine home.