Luxury Bathroom Furniture

Luxury bathroom furniture sits closer to you than anything else in the house. You stand at it half awake, lean on it, drip on it, and see it twice, once in the room and once in the mirror. So the vanity does more than hold a sink. It sets the color of the whole room, and the room is small enough that nothing else can argue with it.

Treat it the way you would the rest of your high end furniture: one strong piece, then restraint. Most of this page is vanities from James Martin and Wyndham, with bathroom cabinets, mirrors, and the tops and brackets that go with them. The one piece that never touches a wall, the tub, has its own page of luxury bathtubs.

Luxury bathroom furniture is mostly the vanity

Start with the vanity and let everything else follow its finish. Our luxury bathroom vanities run from a 20-inch Chianti cabinet for a powder room to the 96-inch Bellshire dual vanity with a 24-inch make-up counter. In between sit the sizes most rooms need, single and double, in painted, oak and walnut finishes. If the rest of the house leans on tapered legs and warm walnut, start with a mid century modern vanity and let the room follow it.

High end bathroom vanities in walnut and oak

Wood behaves differently in a bathroom, because the light is usually overhead and close. Among the walnut bathroom vanities, James Martin's Amberly in Mid-Century Walnut stays warm and a little red. Wyndham's Beckett in Dark Walnut comes with brushed gold, brushed nickel or matte black trim, and the trim matters more than it sounds: gold warms the wood, black sharpens it. The Breckenridge in Light Natural Oak runs up to an 84-inch double for a room that wants to stay light.

Choose the faucet before the top

Here is the practical part. Many vanities are sold with a choice of top, and the top is ordered to suit a faucet mount. On the Amberly, that means 8-inch widespread or single hole. Pick the faucet first, then the top, or you end up matching a faucet to holes instead of to the room.

Marble, quartz and what a finish name means

Carrara moves, quartz holds still

James Martin tops include Carrara white marble and a range of Silestone quartz, from White Zeus to Charcoal Soapstone. Wyndham adds cultured marble and quartz, often with an undermount square sink. Marble has movement and will mark over the years. Quartz keeps one even face. The mistake is choosing marble for a hard-working family bath and expecting it to stay the way it looked on delivery day. Put it where it will be admired more than scrubbed.

A walnut finish is not always walnut

The nuance few shops mention: names like Mid-Century Walnut, Dark Walnut, Toasted Walnut and Whitewashed Walnut describe a color. They do not promise solid walnut. Read each listing for the wood and construction underneath before you compare two vanities side by side.

Luxury bathroom cabinets and mirrors that stay quiet

Once the vanity is set, the rest should go quiet. Bathroom cabinets, such as the 15-inch Addison base cabinet, add closed storage in the same finish, so the room reads as one piece rather than a set of parts. The Chianti cabinet in Walnut Whisper comes with brushed nickel or champagne brass hardware, which lets a small room pick its metal once and keep it. For a lighter footprint, the Boston wall brackets hold a composite stone top off the floor, so the tile runs on underneath and a narrow room reads wider.

Luxury bathroom mirrors do the same job on the wall. The Addison rectangular mirrors match their vanity line. The Callie in white mother of pearl is the one to choose when the mirror should be the only thing in the room that shines.

A modern luxury bathroom at seven in the evening

Bathrooms are planned in daylight and used under a single warm bulb. Test the finish that way. Dark walnut drops toward chocolate, whitewashed oak goes creamy, and Carrara loses its veining at a distance while keeping its glow. Choose the vanity that looks right at night, then let brass or black trim decide how sharp the room feels.