In the heart of most bath renewals there is a great furniture: the dressing table.
“The dressing table can make or break the bath design,” said Hema Persad, founder of the Interior Design of Los Angeles, Sagrada Studio. “Take many square feet, no matter how large or small the bathroom, so you should really think about it.”
There are two key points to consider: how to maximize storage space and how to strengthen the room design vision.
“Vanity must always satisfy a functional need,” said Gabriela Gargano, founder of the New York Interior Design Firm, Grisoro Studio. “But how bold or discreet it is really branched in the design objective for space.”
The answer to these questions can lead to very different designs, from expansive incorporated cabinets to compact units mounted on the wall. These are some of the designs that ms. Persad, Mrs. Gargano and others have implemented so that the bathrooms look and work as well as possible.
Balance the requirements
In Ten three, a design firm with offices in Dallas and Monterrey, Mexico, each vanity design begins with an evaluation of how an owner will use, said Gonzalo Bueno, partner of the firm.
“Some of our customers have simple bath products, while others have skin care products not so simple and high bottles that need access,” said Mr. Bueno. Some people because a large cabinet with a by, so they can hide a sink inside, said, while others want drawers with integrated power shots for hair dryers or toothbrushes.
A dressing table in a dressing table or bathroom, on the other hand, may not require so much storage.
Go from the wall to the wall
One of the best ways to maximize the storage space, only in a small bathroom, is to build a personalized cabinet that stretches from one wall to another.
For a bath that designed in Manhattan, Mrs. Gargano presented a white oak built with large drawers covered by a marble counter of Calacatta Nero that filled a niche completely, which is also lined in white oak. “Create a very immersive feeling,” he said.
In a small bathroom, Mrs. Persad designed, a shallow cabinet ran just through the wall of the room to add a significant storage space. Because there was no room for the doors to open or the drawers were removed, he chose sliding doors in the cane, which were made by Yeehaw Woodworks.
“We had to do those sliding doors because there was no other place to put the bath,” Persad said. In such small confines, he added, “the custom is the way to follow,” because prefabricated dressers are rarely perfect.
In a more spacious bath, a personalized dressing table can also help maximize storage space. In a bathroom that Aimee Meisgeier of Interior Design based in Seattle conceived, he installed a generous book of double dressing table that extends through matching storage cabinets that extend from the floor to the ceiling.
“There was a great open wall series,” said Meisgeier. “So those are built -in linen cabinets that contain pool towels, bath towels and all the necessary day -to -day things.”
Hang it from the wall
A possible inconvenience of a dressing table that runs from wall to wall is that it can eat a lot of space on the floor and see yourself heavy visual in the room. One solution is to use a dressing table mounted on the wall that has no legs or base.
“When an article does not touch the floor, it occupies less visual space, he even thought that the depth and width of the cabinet could be exactly the same,” said Gargano, who often prefers players mounted on the wall in compact urban baths.
Add a shelf
Another way to increase storage space is to install a low shelf, either under a dressing table mounted on the wall or at the bottom of a dressing table that runs to the floor.
Mrs. Meisgeier has built open shelves in dressers for visits baths such as a place to store towels or guests to store DopP kits. In a dressing table, he designed with a long stone dressing table mounted on the wall, he added only a short walnut shelf under him. “That is for a basket where the toilet paper goes,” he said.
Choose a prefabricated unit
In bathrooms that have direct dimensions and a little more breathing space, a prefabricated dressing table can work almost as personalized. In a bathroom, Mrs. Persad designed where she had to put the dressing table between a shower and a toilet, found an independent West Elm size model.
“We wanted something that seemed in the middle of the century, and West Elm had one that adjusted to the footprint and the style we needed,” Persad said. “That was a great cost savings.”
In another bathroom, he used a prefabricated dressing table mounted on the wall. “It had to be narrow enough so that I could still open,” he said. She replaced the hardware in the unique storage drugs with a long bar, which provides a place to hang a gorge.
Refund of an antiquity
A cabinet or chest does not have to be labeled as a bathroom to function as one. Some designers replicate old chests or drawers to make unique dressers.
Aileen Warren and Kiley Jackson, the founders of Jackson Warren Interior, a firm with offices in Houston and Fairhope, Ala., Once they transformed a dresser of mahogany that they found in an antique fair in a vanity.
“It was perfect for space,” Warren said. “We had a local carpenter job in the drawers, so they were really soft.”
The designers simply kept the upper stone that was already in the chest, and a stone manufacturer created a cut for the sink.
For another bathroom, they found a vintage whiten wooden cabinet in the Backs house of the Houston antique store and replaced the upper part with a marble counter to turn it into a dressing table.
“It’s not difficult at all,” Warren said. “And it can be less exensive than making a personalized cabinet.”
Become sculpture
There is no rule that says that a ofity bath has to be a rectangular cabinet. If you want to make the toilet the bathroom star, you can give it a more sculptural way.
In a bathroom plus ten more designed in Mexico, they carved a sink of a rough granite rock and added pedestals on each side to function as a flat counter. “Customers wanted to bring natural materials inside the house to make it more interesting,” said Mr. Bueno.
In another bathroom, the company designed a bulbous dresser covered with parchment leather with a high brightness finish. The piece does not seem like a traditional dressing table, but has curved facts that open to reveal storage.
It was the easiest toilet to build, Buo said, but “we are always trying to find ways to make the bathrooms a little more special.”
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