If you are work­ing on redec­o­rat­ing your bath­room, you may not have con­sid­ered replac­ing your bath­room van­ity. How­ever, if you sim­ply have a sheet of glass in place above your sink as many old homes do, the very first thing you will want to think about is a new mir­ror. Believe it or not, the mir­ror above your sink is the strongest item that you can pur­chase for the restroom, and the largest item you have a direct say in.

Obvi­ously, when it comes to the toi­let, sink, and shower besides replac­ing them with newer mod­els, there is not much you can do about their size, loca­tion, and over­all look. There­fore, you out­side of a shower cur­tain and toi­let seat cover you are kind of stuck. The bath­room van­ity how­ever, is the other large item in your bath­room that you have com­plete con­trol over.

There­fore, it is the one item that is going to speak the loud­est about your dec­o­rat­ing style and rep­re­sent the over­all feel of your restroom. After all, if you have seen one toi­let, you have seen them all. On the other hand, not many houses have the same bath­room van­ity, mak­ing them a piece that stands out on its own merits.

Think about it. Even a pub­lic restroom has a mir­ror, gen­er­ally just a slab of glass that peo­ple can check their reflec­tion in. You want to give your guests a more com­fort­able feel when they are in your restroom than they get from a pub­lic bath­room. Plus, almost every­body is going to check their reflec­tion out in the mir­ror before they leave, mean­ing almost every­one will notice your mirror.

There are many ways that you can choose your bath­room van­ity, but the best way to approach the mat­ter is by look­ing at the size of your sink and the over­all theme of your bath­room. In gen­eral, you want your mir­ror to be about the same size as your sink. If you have a small sink you may go a lit­tle larger, and vice versa, if you have a large sink you may go a lit­tle smaller.

Basi­cally, you want your bath­room van­ity to be the cen­ter­piece of your restroom since you can con­trol the type you pick, but you do not want to dra­mat­i­cally over­power the bath­room. Along the same lines, you do not want it to be so small it starts to lack a prac­ti­cal pur­pose. One great way to bal­ance your mir­ror if you have a larger sink is to place pot­pourri hold­ers on either side or a towel holder. You can match the trim­mings of this with the mir­ror for a more stel­lar feel.

Finally, you want to make sure your bath­room van­ity fits in along­side the theme of your bath­room. For exam­ple, you may have an earthy warm feel­ing in which case you would want a wooden trim­ming for the mir­ror. Or, if you have more of a metal­lic theme for your restroom you might choose a sil­ver or gold trim­ming for the vanity.

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