Bathroom Vanities in St. George, UT

A floating vanity hangs on the wall with open floor underneath. A small bath looks bigger, and the mop gets all the way to the baseboard. All the weight of the box, the stone top, the sink and its water hangs off the back, so the vanity fastens to studs or to solid blocking added inside the wall. Plan one before tile goes up, or expect to open the wall. Drain and supply lines have to come out of the wall too, which can mean a plumber's visit in a bathroom piped through the floor. The payoff is height: NKBA's bath guidelines put a comfortable lavatory anywhere from 32 to 43 inches, and a wall-hung box can be set wherever suits you. In rift-sawn white oak, a matte clear coat keeps the straight grain and leaves its open pores showing.

Two sinks need width before they need anything else. NKBA recommends 36 inches between the sinks' centerlines and 20 inches from each centerline to a side wall or tall cabinet. That adds up to a 76-inch run (our arithmetic). The code minimums of 30 and 15 inches squeeze it to 60, which works on paper but puts two people elbow to elbow. HomeGuide puts converting a single vanity to a double at $800 to $3,000, including the plumbing for the second sink. The space between the sinks is the best storage in the room. A bank of three or four drawers there, with dividers in the top one, holds more than two sink-base doors. Painted shaker doors on a double vanity look best with the top and backsplash picked at the same time.

A makeup vanity drops part of the counter to sitting height and leaves the space under it open for your knees. It's usually flanked by drawer banks, one shallow drawer over the knee space for brushes and palettes. NKBA's guidelines size a knee space for a seated user at 36 inches wide, 27 inches high and 8 inches deep, deepening at the toe. Those are accessible-design numbers, and a comfortable stool needs at least that much. Light matters more here than anywhere else in the bath. A mirror at seated eye level and lighting on both sides beat one fixture overhead. Outlets for hair tools inside a drawer or cabinet are electrical work; the permit side is covered on cabinet installation.

A linen tower is a tall, shallow cabinet that sits on the counter or the floor at one end of the vanity and holds towels, spare toiletries and sometimes a tilt-out hamper. NKBA's access standard puts frequently used items between 15 and 48 inches off the floor, so daily supplies go in the middle of the tower and spare rolls up top. Over-toilet cabinets use wall space nothing else can. Both have to respect the toilet: NKBA recommends at least 18 inches from the toilet's centerline to any cabinet or wall beside it, with 15 inches as the code minimum. A shallow upper over the tank has to leave room to lift the tank lid off, so check that on the drawing.