Home Q&A: Everything you need to know about bathroom vanity units 

From storage to sinks, all the advice — and some of the latest looks

A bathroom without a vanity is sometimes easier on the eye, allowing light to flow across the room and right back to the wall. Picture: iStock

WHATEVER the dimensions of your bathroom, if you choose to include a vanity unit, it is likely to be the anchor furnishing. The showrooms are heaving with beautiful possibilities in fluted fronts, weighty period doubles and crisp colourways, but take note of a few considerations before diving in. As the vanity may (or may not) form part of the wider storage possibilities of the space, let’s start there, with storage notions in general.

You can use the pedestal or wall-hung sink you already have; Hampshire under-sink storage, €185, Next.