Bathroom renovations increase the value of your home.
Bathroom renovations nearly always include a new vanity or other storage options. Bathroom cabinets are a critical choice when planning and designing bathroom renovations. Storage tends to be very limited in any bathroom, regardless of size.
In terms of total budget for your bathroom renovations, cabinetry is a relatively small item. The cost of the vanity or other storage cabinet of your choice is not likely to break the budget. Your choices about storage, however, have very important implications for space.
Whether you are renovating a bathroom built for two, a shared bath for the kids or a second bathroom, the size of the fixtures and the cabinetry makes a big difference. The smaller the room, the more important the size of fixtures and cabinets will be. All bathroom renovations involve choices between need for storage and available space.
If you have an older home and you want to bring it up to today’s standards, you will likely need to do some very creative thinking and planning. Unless you have a much older home that was designed with big bathrooms, you are probably dealing with bathroom spaces much smaller than most buyers want today. You might be adding on to enlarge the bathroom or you might be making choices that enable you to maximize every inch of existing space.
If you are planning to sell your home soon, you might be concerned about meeting the requirements of Universal Design. These requirements include limitations of switch and outlet placement, floor finish, room to turn a wheelchair and accessible shower and tub areas. Choosing cabinets and vanities for these bathroom renovations may require custom cabinets.
Maximizing space in a small bathroom and creating the appearance of spaciousness might demand great creativity. For example, these bathroom renovations might require either a pedestal sink or a wall-mounted sink so you can leave more floor area open. This solves one problem, but where will you store towels and other items?
Deciding to make bathroom renovations without a vanity has serious ramifications. First, you eliminate your primary storage area. Second you remove the countertop area for decorative and toiletry items.
One solution is to approach bathroom renovations without traditional cabinets. In this case, you might set shallow cabinet into the existing wall. Only the cabinet door is not recessed.
Open shelving, cabinets with glass panel doors and creative placement of small shelves for needed items is one solution. For example, you might set glass door cabinets into the wall above the bathtub for towels and washcloths. A decorative niche could be used or soaps and sponges.
Because stock cabinets are twelve inches deep, you will not be able to take this more affordable approach. On the other hand, your budget might not permit custom cabinetry. These bathroom renovations can be affordable, however, if you find the right cabinetmaker.
A good cabinetmaker can customize stock cabinets to meet your needs in bathroom renovations. Whether you are trying to make a small space look larger or you want to create something special and unique, your cabinetmaker can do the job and do it affordably by starting with stock cabinets and customizing them. Your cabinetmaker will customize stock cabinets to meet your specific needs.
Whether the need is to make twelve-inch cabinets only three inches deep or to make a twelve inch wide cabinet six or eight inches wide, your cabinetmaker can customize affordable stock cabinets for every storage and decorative need in your remodeled bathroom. You will likely discover that your cabinetmaker can help you open an array of new options and possibilities for your bathroom renovations.
The fact that you have only seen bathrooms designed with a vanity should not limit your creativity. Your bathroom renovations can produce a small bathroom that is fully functional, beautiful, interesting, creative and affordable. You can have both spaciousness and storage by exercising a little ingenuity.
