I can’t imagine that a MCM house would have had LED lighting around the bathroom light. Sorry…
I have to say. I am not a fan of that grey floating vanity. I just don’t like the color. I like the stained wood ones better, and maybe I’m wrong…but I think that fits the period better.
I am the outlier. I’d rather have the storage of the lower drawers than the floating vanity. I just don’t see how the small,amount of space makes the bathroom look larger.
I’m new to these threads so I have a lot of catching up to do. I’m up to flip #6. Or maybe #7, I forget. Anyway, they’re fascinating and I wanted to thank @coralbrook for taking the time to post. I’m in the midst of changing careers and it’s helpful to see someone on the other end who clearly enjoys what they do. It’s nice that she’s restoring homes and not losing their history. It pains me to pass my grandparents’ home because of the awful way the most recent owners have treated it.
I have a small bath (we bought a fixer upper starter home and never left), so although I like the look of the floating sink and how it opens up the floor I’d have to get something with more storage. Or get creative. I may have to peruse coralbrook’s previous listings for ideas. Anyway, I suspect her current project has the space to pull it off.
@bookworm - it really does. The trick is to find a vanity that is not too far off the floor and not too low. You are pretty much losing just one row of bottom drawers (and those are junk drawers anyway). The space below can be used to store a bathroom scale; it can be pulled out when needed and then tucked away. Some folks add led light strips under the vanity and a night/motion sensor, so those work as nightlights.
I love th look of a floating vanity, but losing storage space isn’t the biggest drawback for me, it’s having to lay down on the bathroom floor and clean underneath. Yes, you can just swiffer the tiles most of he time, but eventually you are going to have to really clean under there.
Agree that cleaning under a vanity with legs is a PITA. Not under a floating one, because there is ample room to move a cleaning tool. And now I want one in my bath… with the LED nightlights underneath.
I personally don’t like any of the gray ones. I also don’t like the one with the funny sinks on top.
The others look about the same. I guess I’m not a fan of this look. Did real MCM houses have floating vanities? We lived in a ‘50s house growing up. There were no floating vanities. At all.
Anyway… I’m not a fan of the floating style or vessel sinks in some of Marilyn’s posts. Someone else posted a floating vanity that still had nice drawer pulls on it…maybe that was CB.
I personally don’t like grey wood.
I will say, however, that the floating vanity does add some character to that master bath.
It seems like the problem is finding a 72" vanity. There are plenty of nice, wall-mounted ones in smaller sizes. What about using 2 36" ones to fill the wall and then adding a single countertop over them?
I did suggest two 36” vanities in an earlier post and I did mention that floating vanities weren’t MCM and most of my posts weren’t grey and I did note that the one post was vessel sinks which iirc no one on these threads like . But whatever; tough crowd.
We are all brainstorming here. Some ideas can be floated more than once…
Wall-mounted and floating vanities ARE MCM. Or at the very least, that is what the buyers expect to see in MCM homes. Just google images of recent MCM updates, there will be plenty of floating vanities.
Our house was built in the 50s. Both bathrooms have built-in cabinets and a regular sink. I’m not sure whether or not our home was mid-century modern but do love the cabinets under the sink. There’s nothing to clean under the cabinet!
LOL article in the Home section today starts out “when it comes to painting rooms, gray is red-hot. Benjamin Moore carries more than 150 shades of gray, and Sherwin-Williams says of the company’s top 50 colors for interiors, 30 are grays…The trend toward gray started in Scandinavia, became big in the U.S. around six years ago and is still on the rise…we’re seeing more gray cabinetry and more trim in gray now.” The article goes on to discuss all the possible undertones.
Personally I’m not a gray fan although our outdoor deck and railing are in the blue gray family to complement our pool tile and outdoor cushions. Love many shades of blue and green (but not lime green) and strongly dislike orange. Always comfortable with whites and woods.
I’m still struggling with the vanity choice. At this point I’m going to have to go with a floating vanity because I laid the extremely expensive flat pebble tile in a band across the floor in front of the vanity. Half of it will be lost because it would be hidden by a full vanity. Buyers can put up a big medicine cabinet to the left if they need storage. Or maybe two medicine cabinet mirrors??
I like a couple of the ones Marilyn posted. The Rosewood one is my favorite. I’m also looking at buying some IKEA cabinets with the colored glossy doors and doing a hack to install them. I had to do that for the hall bath. The kitchen cabinets were 24” deep and I could only go 22” deep because of the hall bath door. After a lot of analyzing and putting the drawers in, there was 2 1/2” of empty space in the back. So we took all the pieces and parts and cut 2 1/2” off the back of the cabinets. No one will ever know:)
I don’t think floating vanities are true to the MCM style, but they are very popular in the ‘clean lines’ style right now. And I think greys are still popular in design, although I don’t personally care for the stripes grey wood vanities.
Master bath tile is finally done!!! I’ll load some pictures tomorrow. And, I had a potential buyer walk in from the neighborhood today. He wants the house for the view and the ‘age in place’ factor, and yard for a lap pool. He’s an empty nester. How do I always get it wrong for who the buyer for the house is…target market??? Here I am spending time and money to go funky MCM contemporary style and all these older people are the ones coming to look at the house??
Kitchen is installed and countertop material selected. I went with plain white quartz to contrast with the dark walnut cabinets. Here’s my cost:
5 nine ft runs of white quartz for kitchen and hall bathroom countertop. This includes extra backsplash and a piece of quartz for the top of the open sink wall area