Small Bathroom Floating Vanity Ideas

Visible floor is the whole trick. Run the tile under the cabinet, leave eight or ten inches of it showing, and a five by eight room reads all the way to the wall instead of stopping at a toe kick. That is what Small Bathroom Floating Vanity Ideas are buying, and every bathroom here is anchored by a wall hung piece from our bathroom vanities, shot installed so you can see the shadow line doing its work.

Solid Blocking and a Drain That Lines Up

The carpentry is where these projects go wrong. Every one of our floating bathroom vanities hangs off a cleat, and a cabinet plus a stone top plus somebody leaning on it is real weight, so drywall anchors will not hold it. You want solid blocking, a length of two by or a sheet of plywood screwed between the studs where the cleat lands, set before the wall closes up. The drain is the other one. A wall hung cabinet needs the waste line moved up into the wall so the trap clears the cabinet bottom, which means opening that wall anyway.

Settle both with your plumber before you fall for a finish, because neither is a weekend fix afterward (better to hear it now than after the tile is set). Most of the small bathroom floating vanity inspiration you save will come from rooms where that work happened first and never shows.

Set the Counter at Whatever Height Suits You

What makes this one better than a freestanding cabinet is that you choose the height. A wall hung piece hangs wherever you set it, so the counter can run at 34 or 36 inches for tall adults, or drop lower in a kids' bath, which no cabinet on legs will ever do for you. The leggy pieces in small bathroom vanities get close, though depth still runs 21 to 22 inches either way, and the 18 inch shallow models are the ones we specify when a door swing crowds the sink.

Detail by Detail

Keep the front flat and handleless so nothing interrupts the horizontal line. Size the mirror to the cabinet rather than the wall. Put the light at the sides instead of overhead, so nothing throws a shadow across the open floor you just paid for. Study the small bathroom floating vanity pictures here at hand height too, because in white oak or matte black a wall hung front is where a fingerprint shows most, so a matte lacquer beats a gloss. For wall hung pieces at every room size, see our floating bathroom vanity ideas.

Worth knowing before you get attached: we carry a genuinely narrow set of wall hung cabinets at compact widths, so the small bathroom floating vanity pictures on this page are a short and specific gallery rather than a deep one. You give up the bottom drawer as well, so plan on two divided drawers rather than one deep bin, and keep the tall bottles in a wall cabinet or a basket.

Weigh the small bathroom floating vanity inspiration above against the cabinets that sit on the floor in our small bathroom vanity ideas, then let your blocking and your drain make the final call.