Wooden Medicine Cabinets
Adding a custom touchDoyle, Alice WelshHappy pink and green accents enliven connecting baths.
Banish the bathroom blahs by embellishing standard white vanities. For the adjoining baths of her daughters Mallory and Amanda, designer Gina Lucchi of Midland, Texas, adorned the vanities with decorative trim in the shape of triangles. It's an easy solution to give the room more punch. "I wanted the vanities to look like pieces of furniture," says Gina. In the pink room, wooden trim edges the front of the tile countertop and the top of the backsplash.
The bright pink and green color schemes, chosen by the girls, really stand out against the white cabinets. Other geometric shapes, such as circles or squares, would work as well.
Another great update is the wallpaper selections. Both designs, a pink stripe and green check, look hand-painted. It's their imperfect appearance that deceives the eye. On both vanities, whimsical door hardwaremonogram embossed and flower shaped-replaced the standard knobs. While the baths are similar, they have distinct personalities, just like the sisters who use them. In the green bath, the countertops are limestone tiles; terra-cotta tiles painted with a white glaze accent the pink bath.
The accessories vary as well, such as the green square medicine cabinet in one room and an elaborate white cherub mirror in the other. The cabinet in the green bath is a versatile piece-its attached bar keeps towels within reach. A delicate ivy sconce adds another decorative element to the room.
These cheerful baths show that you don't have to spend a bundle for a fresh and specialized look.
ALICE WELSH DOYLE
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