HomeThangs.com Has Introduced A Guide To Beadboard Bathroom Vanities For A Cottage Style Bathroom
(PRWEB) July 24, 2013 -- HomeThangs.com – the Online Home Improvement Store has made their goal to deliver the right product to the consumer. With that in mind, shopping and home design tips, as well as special product selections are being introduced.
There are more than a few ways to quickly and inexpensively transform the appearance of a bathroom, but one of the easiest is simply applying beadboard to the walls. It’s cheap, DIY friendly, and instantly creates a bright, sunny classic style. But beadboard doesn’t just work on the walls – it looks great on bathroom vanities, too. Beadboard walls are often paired with pedestal sinks and clawfoot tubs, but beadboard vanities match a cottage bathroom to a T. While they may be a little harder (and a little more expensive) to install than simple wallboard, they’re a great way to add a breezy country cottage vibe to a slightly larger bathroom.
Beadboard is a type of wainscoting that’s traditionally produced in small planks and installed piece by piece to create long stripes separated by single or double grooves, like pinstripes. Modern beadboard sheets make it easier to apply to a wall, offering a nice alternative to plain paint or expensive tile. On a bathroom vanity, the thin striped grooves of beadboard are echoed on the front face, sides, and door panels, creating a simple white on white striped pattern that instantly evokes Cape Cod and seaside cottage designs.
Pedestal sinks or consoles are a more traditional choice for a cottage bathroom, but this is largely due to the fact that bathrooms in turn of the century homes tend to be pretty small. Sometimes a pedestal, toilet, and tub are all there’s space for, which can make storage a problem. Beadboard bathroom vanities have that same great, classical style, but offer a whole lot more in the way of storage space.
Better still, beadboard bathroom vanities come in a much wider range of sizes, from a petite 24″ or 30″ inches to wide double vanities that can easily stand up to a very large bathroom. Without large built in cabinets to back them up, pedestal sinks can be dwarfed by a big master suite, but beadboard bathroom vanities can really hold their own. The modular Cottage Retreat collection from Sagehill Designs can even be expanded to fill a whole room like custom cabinetry, meaning that even the largest bathroom can still get that simple, elegant cottage style.
As with kitchen cabinets, the front paneling on bathroom cabinet doors can make a big difference in the overall appearance of the piece. Flat white doors or even simple inset or Shaker style cabinets can work with a cottage bathroom, but beadboard is so iconic and so intrinsically linked with a cottage style that even a bathroom vanity with a relatively limited amount of beadboarded surface still works to help establish the decor.
Where beadboard bathroom vanities really shine, though, is in bathrooms where there isn’t paneling on the walls. Subway tile is another traditional choice that produces a slightly more polished (and definitely more water resistant) surface, and walls that are simply painted certainly have their place in cottage design as well. Bathroom vanities with that traditional texture offer a great way to enhance the bathroom’s style, no wall treatment needed.
At its heart cottage style is a white-on-white aesthetic, typically excepting only the occasional pastel. But this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. In fact, there’s a growing trend toward using black bathroom vanities – beadboarded and otherwise – to put a slightly more contemporary twist on this traditional style. This creates a slightly more formal look and dramatic contrast, especially in a primarily white or pastel bathroom – a great way to stick to tradition (but not too much) in an older home.
To see more beadboard bathroom vanities, read the full article here.
HomeThangs.com is not only a home improvement superstore, it also provides expert design tips and a comprehensive shopping guide, taking the ideas from professional interior designers, and offering tips to the consumers on how to pick the products to best suit their needs.
Tanya Tymoshuk, HomeThangs, http://www.homethangs.com, 1-866-278-0880, [email protected]
Share this article