Vanity Top Colors for a White Vanity
I currently have four white vanities in this house, and five vanity tops sitting on top of them, because the powder room got done twice when I couldn’t leave well…
Bathroom Vanity Colors for Beige Tile
I painted my first bathroom vanity the exact wrong shade of white and didn’t understand why for about six months. This was my old apartment on Judah, the one with…
Bathroom Vanity Colors for Dark Floors
I was on my hands and knees at quarter to seven in the morning, in a towel, holding a fan of paint chips against the bathroom floor because that was…
Styling a Bathroom Around a Gray Vanity
I painted my first bathroom four times before I got it right, and I want to be honest about why, because it wasn’t bad luck, it was me refusing to…
Vanity Drawer Organization
My dad opened the drawer under my bathroom sink last Thanksgiving looking for a nail clipper, got one look at what was inside, and said, “Owen, I taught you better…
Vanity Table: What to Leave Out and What to Put Away
Here’s the thing everyone says about vanity tables: they’re a Pinterest fantasy, not a real piece of furniture. A flat surface that exists purely so you can photograph a candle…
Bathroom Vanity Countertop: What Stays Out and What Goes Away
I checked my phone’s screen time app for something unrelated last week and it reminded me, weirdly, that I open my bathroom cabinet about eleven times a day. I didn’t…
Bathroom Vanity Storage: What Goes Inside
I own fourteen individual storage containers inside a vanity that is, and I measured this specifically for this post, thirty inches wide. Fourteen. Two drawers and one cabinet door hiding…
Colors That Pair With Light Gray Bathroom Tile
My mom stood in my bathroom doorway, took one look at the tile job I’d just finished grouting myself, and said, “It’s very… hospital.” Not mean, exactly. She followed it…
Vanity Colors to Try Against Gray Tile
My dad walked into the bathroom I was tiling last spring, looked at the sample vanity door I’d propped against the wall, and said one thing. “That’s the wrong white.”…