Bathroom Vanities: Let Your Powder Room Vanity Reflect Shameless Good Taste In Bath Design
Prolonged gazing into ones 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 yesterdays 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...