The Best Bathroom Vanities with Storage + Mirrors & Lighting

February 1, 2026
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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 vanitye 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 Thermofoi. 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!

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!