The Best Bathroom Vanities with Storage + Mirrors & Lighting (parts 1 & 2-1/2) + Birthday!

Hi Everyone,

This is a quick part 2.5 to the best bathroom vanities + mirror + sconce + wallpaper post.

First of all, I did it!

 

I made it to 70!

 

The only pics I have so far are one from Cale (coming up in a bit) and one selfie (below) I posted to Instagram.

 

The little photos on the lower left are top, me at 41 with 2-year-old baby Aaron, and bottom, me at 34 with 6-month-old baby Cale.

 

All of the other photos are in my guests’ phones. I’m sure they will be sending some soon.

 

The party was absolutely perfect.

 

The hardest part about giving a party is making (or heating up) a crapload of food while simultaneously making it look like no one lives there. 😂 🤣

And then, cleaning up afterward. However, in total, it ended up being 11 souls, which was a fantastic number for this extroverted introvert. As I said, perfect!

 

However, at 11:00 PM, I had a surprise visitor who came very briefly to wish me happy birthday.

 

No, I’m not joking. It’s time to bring out the heavy artillery!!!

Otherwise, my day was perfect.

The gluten-free chocolate cake came out wonderfully. I will be sharing the recipe shortly, which has some notes because gluten-free baking requires some mods that regular gluten flour doesn’t require. However, the cake tastes exactly like my delectable chocolate cake. It might be slightly more dense, but it was not in any way gummy or dry; two issues one encounters with gluten-free.

Here I am with my friend Trish around the 60″ round table. (There’s the cake!)

 

Bonus points if you can guess the topic of conversation. haha!

 

This is why women have to be over 50 to be in the Chestnuts. ;]

I can’t tell you how glad I am that I got the 60″ round dining table.My Englishman’s Georgian-Style Dining Table is Here, For Real!

Okay, you can click the part 2 link, (please scroll down) and then you’ll find the last several mini widgets with more beautiful vanity combos. However, I also wrote some more information at the beginning of part 2. If you haven’t been here before, please begin reading from the top.

 

Wednesday February 4, 2026 (preamble to part 2)

 

Hi Everyone,

Well………. I don’t know. I don’t know what possessed me to say I would put together some things for you. First, I had to find the things. So, being that it’s me, I found 50 beautiful wallpapers which could be a separate post, then mirrors, faucets and vanity lighting. All of that took many hours, but it’s fun, too.

 

I decided to make mini widgets. Many of the items can be interchanged. In fact, most of it can.

 

The wallpaper is something extra; you don’t have to use it if you don’t want to. However, I thought it would add an interesting dimension. In the process, I also discovered some new sources, so that’s pretty cool.

 

Okay, if you’ve read part 1 and would like to skip to part 2, please click the link below. Otherwise, if you are here for the first time or wish to review, please start from the top of the page.

 

Part 2 Begins Here

 

(part 1 from February 1, 2026)

Dear Laurel,

I hope you can do a post about bathroom vanities— Sorry, not the console kind as you have. Don’t get me wrong, it’s incredibly beautiful, but my husband and I have a lot of stuff, and we need as much storage as we can get.

Anyway, we’re also redoing our kitchen, and boy, is the built-in cabinetry bloody expensive. We should’ve done Crown Point as you did, in your beautiful kitchen, but I was nervous about working with a company several hundred miles away. (We’re in Atlanta.) So, we worked with a local designer, who charged a design fee of $1,000 towards the price of the vanity. If they create and install it, they’ll reimburse us, and if not, we’re out $1,000.

 

I bet you know what’s coming.

 

We got the quote and for the vanity alone, and I nearly passed out when I saw that it was nearly $16,000, and Laurel, that’s without the top, sinks and faucets. By the time we’re done, it will be $20,000 or more! Is that normal? Please tell me we don’t have to spend that much for a high-end looking bathroom vanity!

Our budget for the double bathroom vanity is $10,000 max, including two undermount sinks and two polished nickel faucets. I adore the ones on your console vanity and also on your Bed & Bath Hot Sales page by Perrin & Rowe. That’s probably pushing it.

 

One thing I don’t want is you know, where the seams, rails and stiles on the doors and drawers are highly visible and going vertically and horizontally instead of mitered diagonally.

 

I think it’s awfully ugly and looks cheap. It’s almost like the doors were molded into that shape. And what’s the plastic-like finish? It’s like the finish on IKEA cabinetry.

We have a couple of other bathrooms we’ll be working on, so not everything has to be 72″. The smaller vanities with one faucet, sink, mirror and sconces, we have a budget for $7,000 max for each bathroom.

 

To sum up, we want interesting bathroom vanities that are in our budget.

 

But tell us if it’s unrealistic to do a nice bathroom vanity with sinks, faucets, tops and mirrors for $10,000.

Bathsheba Dritz

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Hi Everyone,

Sorry about the name. It’s late. Yes, this is a made-up character with a very real problem.

She wants a custom high-end look, but prices have gone through the roof. I’m incredulous when I see club chairs that are $5,000 or more, and they aren’t anything special.

 

Now, about the doors, Bathsheba is on the right track.

 

The reason they look like that is that the doors are actually one piece, and those “seams” are routed out to imitate seams. Although seams are not supposed to be visible, so I think it would look better without the fake seams.

 

Why are there no actual seams?

 

It’s much more expensive to construct a door in five pieces that fits perfectly together and then has the ability to expand and contract as wood does, depending on the humidity.

The thing I don’t understand is why they have to make such obvious valleys.

 

Below is an excellent example of fake seams on a Shaker-style bathroom vanity.

 

Here ya go. This is what Bathsheba is talking about. The doors are actually particleboard, and that weird plastic-looking finish isn’t paint. I believe it’s a product called Thermofoil. It’s a flexible vinyl material that is heated and molded over the surface, usually in a satin finish. It adheres well and is easy to clean. But, yes, it looks like plastic because it kind of is!*

*Please check out Kimberly’s fantastic comment for some updated info about this manufacturing process which is not always Thermofoil.

 

The worst is that the piece above isn’t even cheap.

 

It’s retailing for 3,000 bucks!

The inspiration for this post came recently, when I came across a new company on Etsy, Rail and Stile Vintage, which manufactures these gorgeous vanities.

 

The vanities come in three sizes and three or four colors. And they are all in Bathsheba’s budget.

 

To be clear, I would not do the same style in all three bathrooms.

However, I’ve also come across dozens of other wonderful vanities from various vendors. A few of them do have a bit of the faux seams, but they make up for it with other elements that make the piece look high-end.

 

Some of the vanities are a bit more expensive; however, they look it and are still less than 100% custom.

 

The captions have more information about the pieces, and if you click on any of the images, you’ll be taken to where they are sold for even more information. Many of these are sold at multiple vendors. If so, I tried to find the lowest price.

Here it is!

 

 

Okay, so if any of you are interested, please pick one to three of your favorites and let us know in the comments, not email.

 

The three most popular, I’ll select mirrors, faucets and lighting to coordinate.

xo,

 

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Part 2 Begins Here

 

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to part 2. As I said at the top of the page, I’ve created small widgets which are muuuch easier, but they don’t allow for captions. So, I’ll say a few words after each design.

 

Thank you so much for your terrific comments.

 

It seems that almost everyone loved the Chinoiserie vanities with the faux bamboo trim. So smart.

For today, I did six of the vanities but there will be more for Sunday’s post and then we’ll probably be done with this topic. Each one has at least one mirror, one sconce and one wallpaper, but some have two of those items. In case it isn’t clear, if there are two wallpapers, only one would be used.

 

Before we get into it, would you believe in the wee hours on Wednesday morning?

 

It is phenomenally upsetting. Fortunately, the exterminator errr, pest control technician, was able to come today for the FOURTH time. Get this. He found four holes that were missed before. That’s probably because they didn’t actually look in those spots? It was different guys each time. All have been very nice.

 

I am thinking perhaps it would be better if one of them just moved in for a few weeks. ;]

 

He’d save a lot of money on parking. ;]

 

Okay, it’s time to get serious, so let’s check out the beautiful vanities now styled with possibilities for wallcovering, lighting, faucet and a mirror or mirrors if a double vanity.

 

Please note that some of the mirrors might be too big for the vanity shown. The mirror should not be wider than the vanity unless it’s covering the entire wall, but that’s a different animal.

 

Laurel, how big should the vanity mirror or mirrors be in relation to the vanity?

 

That is a separate post because it depends on the size of the wall, and if there needs to be space for sconces and the width of the sconces. Doing an elevation is especially helpful when deciding what will work and what won’t.

Below is my bathroom sink wall elevation, the summer before the installation of what it ended up being.

 

As you can see, there’s some leeway with sizes, but in the case of the confinement of the 48″ niche, not a lot.

 

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Below is the final grouping of seven

 

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The first one features a 36″ vivid Kelly green vanity from Rail and Stile Vintage. Sorry the image is so small. I can’t control that. I am lucky if I can get it to be the correct color. The gold mirror is by Erin Gates. Not only is it terribly chic, it’s also a medicine cabinet!

 

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Oh, I love them all! Many of the smaller vanities would be fantastic in my upstairs bathroom. The only thing I need to be mindful of is the clawfoot tub.

You can only see a tiny rounded corner of it.

I hope you enjoyed all the widgets and news! Thank you again for the wonderful birthday wishes!

xo,

 

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