You could buy one new, but the chicest looks incorporate refurbished vintage dressers. You can paint one a bright cheery shade and use it in an otherwise neutral room, or go with the natural wood finish and pair it with some gorgeous wallpaper.
- A pretty secondhand dresser to store linens and towels from Young House Love.
- A luxe, antique dresser looks chic in an otherwise modern bathroom from Lonny.
- A grassy shade of green perks up a basement bathroom in Country Living.
- A refurbished dresser makes for a nice sink & vanity, as seen in Light Locations.
- A dresser with crystal knobs and lovely detailing pairs perfectly with a clawfoot tub. From Better Homes and Gardens.
(Images: as linked above)
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God I wish my bathroom were big enough to have a dresser in. Of course, if my house were big enough to have that size bathroom, i'd probably also have a linen closet and a garage, and a basement or attic, and thus probably wouldn't need the dresser. But they are gorgeous!!
The Lonny bathroom sinks, chrome frames...the more I see that style, the more I like it. Stylish, clean, and sophisticated.
I hate to be 'that commenter' but none of those bathrooms are from Young House Love. Dig a little deeper and give that bathroom the credit it deserves!
allison, the first photo can indeed be found in Young House Love. Click the link and keep scrolling down.
This reminds me of my house as a child, there was always a dresser in the hall outside the bathroom full of linens that were dried on the clothes line. I really do wish my bathroom has a space for a dresser.
oooh i'd be thrilled if my bathroom was large enough for a dresser. But one in the hallway outside sounds lovely.
My bathroom -is- the size of a dresser. Put one in there and there'd be no place for the bathroom.
I'm putting a china cupboard in mine. I'm moving into a new apartment that has an 8 x 10 bathroom with no storage. It's perfect!
I just bought a 100 year old house that was gutted and renovated, and I saved a lot of money by converting old dressers to vanities in both of my bathrooms (like the lavender dresser in picture 4). I bought them off Craigslist and had the drawers modified to fit the plumbing. The vintage pieces really add a lot of charm to the newer finishes in the bathrooms and have more storage than those horrible (expensive) pre-fab vanities at the big box stores.
I've been thinking about wood in a tiny bathroom, but I'm afraid of the potential mold. I was thinking about repurposing an old dresser into a vanity, as in photo nr. 4. But I wonder if it'll really be practical for a kid's bathroom.
At home, i took out the two lower drawers, clued a plank on the bottom and put there three big bags for the laundry - white, colour, dark. The two first drawers contain my son pj's, underwear and sockets. On the dresser we have little items but not so much.