Sink placement for our downstairs bathroom vanity

Thank you all for your feedback on my last post. I am leaning towards the tho long drawers option, but am still worried if 28.5cm on either side of the sink will be sufficient for a main bathroom...

The upstairs powder room is sorted, and it will just have two doors with a shelf inside.

But, there is still the downstairs bathroom which I am unsure about, and would love to hear your advice. The vanity is the first thing you see when you enter the bathroom and we've only got 1m to work with. There is a toilet on the left of the vanity and the wall is on the right... 

Below are the three sink placement options I've outlined in one of our existing vanities.

• Top: basin 10cm from the edge of the vanity on the left
• Middle: basin pushed far left - provides maximum bench space on the right, for placing hair drying/change of clothes, but will this cause splashing on the left?
• Bottom: basin centred - is symetric

PS. The "trial" plantation shutters for our home office/gym, and bedrooms 3 and 4 have now been installed and look fantastic. We are happy and will be ordering the rest very soon. YAY! Some progress at last :)

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Main Bathroom Vanity Layout - Help!

We don't have a medicine cupboard above the vanity so some drawers are a must... Our undermount basin is huge so takes up a fair bit of the vanity space. Which one of the following options do you think LOOKS best and is the most FUNCTIONAL?

• Off-center basin, with 3 x 100% usable drawers
• Basin in the center of the vanity, with the top drawer being partialy usable due to the depth and width.
• Two x 1.1m long drawers, top drawer being only usable in a U kind of shape (25cm around the basin). This option would cost $100 more than the other two options.

All the options have their pros and cons, and as usual I am having a hard time deciding. I would be love if you could help :)

This is what the top drawer would look like if we go with the 3rd option:

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Downstairs powder room vanity at last! And a door/floor stop question ...

Remember how I said the other week that I wouldn't be calling the cabinet maker any more? Well I meant it. However, MrB got fed up with him and decided to call him behind my back. Two days later the downstairs powder room vanity was installed. Some people!!!

Now, I need to get on to the stonemason guys to install the benchtop. It will be Organic White to match the ensure and laundry.

Another thing is ... I keep smashing the door in to the wall on the left for some reason :S

Before the door handle does too much damage I think I need to get some door/floor stops.

Any recommendations for door/floor stops suitable for tight spaces? I don't want to keep walking in to it and hurting my toes :(

The vanity is polyurethane two pack (gloss) and the colour is Vivid White.

The doors are handle less, so won't have any handles.

Oh, he also installed the laundry kickboard, and measured the laundry and kitchen pantry doors so we can finally tick the handles off the list!

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Some good news at last ... sort of

We ordered our downstairs powder room vanity 3 months ago. I last contacted the cabinetmaker 2 months ago but never heard back from him... so today I decided to give him a call again to see if everything was ok. I was worried for him, he did our kitchen, laundry and ensuite vanity and we've been extremely happy with him and his work... Anyways, turns out he's had the doors painted and cut everything up months ago but then got so busy that he didn't have time to drop it off and put it all together... okkkkk. So he promised he would come some time next week to install it. Fingers crossed.

It's been so annoying having guests wash use the laundry for hand washing since it's on the other side of the house. Really looking forward to a vanity in the powder room!

We are also very keen to have a tv unit made so we can finally move the tv from the "formal"lounge to the family room. However, deciding on the height and configuration (drawers vs shelves with doors) has been a pain in the neck! All the power points will be behind the tv unit and the tv will sit on top of the unit, so we will need to have holes cut out for the cable to go through...

Any tips on what configuration to go for? Drawers vs regular doors? A combination of both? We are having a proper tv/cinema room where all the equipment etc will be stored since everything is connected via Cbus. Also, we don't have to worry about the remote control working through the tv unit doors, thanks to Cbus. I am not a fan of open or glass/perspex doors on tv units...

A layout of our family room:

Oh, and I will be calling the tiler soon to finish of the laundry tiling. Really excited about that. We will then order the overhead cabinetry and wall to ceiling cupboard. Hope it doesn't take 4 months to have them installed though...

Considering that our laundry cabinetry, bench tops and walls are all white and all the tiling is grey... Do you think it would look odd having the gap between the white architrave and cabinetry tiled in grey tiles? We've got skirting height tiling in the laundry, so this would be the only area with tiling all the way to the splashback...

And a reminder of what our powder room vanity should look like:

Can you believe we've been in the house for almost a year? :(
Still no curtains, no driveway :(

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Bathroom drawer dividers

Now that our ensuite vanity is finally completed I really want to sort out all our drawers. Because we've got 9 drawers I'd like something that isn't overly expensive... but at the same time not crap either (not a fan of disposable/short life things...)

Have you seen anything that might suit our 6.5cm x 5.5cm drawers?

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Bathroom styling. What do you think?

What do you think of my mood board for the ensuite so far:

* White rolled up towels in the wicker basket
* Cotton balls in the large glass canister
* Cotton buds in the smaller glass canister

Also, we keep all our towels under the basins. What do you think of using wicker baskets/trays for displaying rolled towels in, for our white vanity, white bench top and grey tiled bathroom? What colour would you recommend, white, acid wash, natural or black? What would be the best place to get these from?

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Ensuite reveal!!!

Over the weekend I took some photos of our ensuite vanity. I would love to hear your tips on how to style it so it looks like it belongs in a magazine :P

What do you think?

Oh, and this photo is a result of three separate photos (merged in photoshop) which is why the line where mirror meets the ceiling is broken in a couple of spots. I just coudln't get the whole vanity in one shot :(

Ensuite specs:

3.1m long vanity with two pack cabinetry with soft close drawers and doors and CaesarStone Organic White benchtop
Caroma Caravelle undermount basins
Hansa Polo basin mixers
Hansa Polo shower mixer
Methven Futura Satinjet shower on rail
Caroma Metro wall faced toilet suite
Stegbar semi-frameless shower screen
Stegbar 3.1m long mirror
Clipsal c-bus Dynamic Label Technology (DLT) Wall Switch
Clipsal Saturn powerpoints
iPlex Smartile to floor and shower drainages
Rinnai hot water controller
Floor to ceiling rectified and virtrified porcelain tiles

Still to do:
Paint the architrave, door frame and door :)
Plantation shutters on the window
Towel rails on the left hand side (where masking tape is :)
Toilet roll holder

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Ensuite vanity, fan & cbus progress

Wall hung vanities - how high off the ground?

We would like all our vanities to be wall hung. They will be custom made so we can choose how high and off the ground to have them. We are thinking 90cm for the top as it seems to be the standard, but what about the bottoms of the vanities? How high of the ground should we make them? In a couple of bathrooms the toilet suite is next to the vanity so we want to make sure the toilets are safe to sit on without anyone hurting themselves... Does 250mm off the ground sound ok? Would love to hear what you think :)

PS. timber flooring upstairs was completed on Wednesday J

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