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This bathroom vanity unit manages to do something they never did, & probably never wanted to do either, & that was to produce a co-ordinated range of decorative furnishings. They were artists generally producing 1 off pieces, usually old pieces of furniture re-used. This bathroom vanity shows how you can take & adapt their ideas & designs to create new work. The result is very striking to say the least, yet looks crisp & contemporary as well. These are the pieces that establish the look & feel of your bathroom, not the shower, WC, tiles, towel rail, etc. The vanity is shown with several style of sit-on basins, but you might prefer an undermounted basin. We cal also supply match Bloomsbury style mirrors to complement the vanity.
This is a new 4 door vanity unit, inspired by an early Omega Workshops design by Vanessa c.1913, to produce a stunning new piece of artistic furniture. The vanity unit can be made as a 3 door version if preferred. Whilst very practical & offering plenty of storage, is essentially a large canvas for the hand painted designs. The vanity unit can have tongue & groove side panels, but these could be smooth if preferred. The worktop could be painted in any of the colours of the main design, but it could also be stone (marble, granite, Quartz, limestone), Corian, glass, wood, etc.. It is made to order, so you can change the sizes / proportions to suit, within reason due to the front design. It is shown with a plinth, a typical feature of Bloomsbury furniture, but we can also supply it with legs (a more open look suited to a bathroom? plus this lets the users feet stand under the vanity, so you are more comfortable standing closer to it.
Rather than follow the example of the original artists, in Omega & Bloomsbury, and decorate secondhand pieces of found furniture, we design & produce pieces from new with the designs planned from the start to create unified new pieces. As you can imagine if you were to commission a new sideboard and a large painting like this seperately they would not come cheap, we've just combined the 2. The bathroom pieces are shown in a clean new painted finish, but we can antique & generally batter these pieces a bit to give them an older look if you prefer. We can and have put this vanity design to other new uses, such as sideboard (shown below), bookcases/display units, and media centres. We don't discuss sizes or pricing until we've agreed the finished design details with a client.
The front of the vanity unit can be made in 2 ways. The designs above all show doors which are the full height of the carcase. This makes for a very clean front best suited to decorative painting. However, some clients might prefer a framed front. As well as being more expensive to make, some clients prefer the more traditional look with a framed front. However, it does mean there are more lines visible from the front, and the middle panel is visible (required to hinge the middle doors off); this is not as clean a front for painting as the full height doors.
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This is a stunning vanity unit with a beautiful painted design on the doors. Our aim is you can have a practical piece of art in your bathroom & use it every day. While the Omega didn't do any bathrooms as such (bathrooms were still a new fangled invention c.1913) there are examples at Charleston farmhouse later on, by some of the same artists. The vanity unit is complemented by some of our painted Bloomsbury style wall mirrors (see mirrors section), which use the same colours & tones as the vanity. The wall mirrors can also be supplied as a wall mirror cupboard, offering storage at a convenient height. Depending on the vanity size you want and your preference you could go for either a large wall mirror or a small single one, or a pair to match the twin basins. We've shown the vanities with sit on basins, but these could be undermounted basins for a cleaner look. We can supply other painted furniture to complete the bathroom if you want, ie bath panels, cupboards, panelling, etc.. Bear in mind the size of the vanity you want and access with it to your bathroom. As a double 4 door vanity you obviously need a decent size bathroom to accomodate this.
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You might find a brief outline of the artistic process useful, showing how designs translate onto pieces of furniture. To begin with we made up sample boards x2, one for us & one for the customer. This is the slowest part of the painting job, as the artist will mix several variations of the colours to arrive at the best mix for each. So above you can see some of the initial colour test sheets. Then as the sample board was painted the colours are painted in the squares to the side, as reference for when we come to paint the actual doors. The Adam sample board was painted first, and was the closest to the original design. But the interior designer asked for a 2nd sample board, and supplied some colour swatches to use as these match the colour scheme in the room, visually tieing the finished sideboard to the room scheme. So we produced 2 variant 2nd sample boards, one a bit deeper colours than the other, for approval.
A computer illustration is made to the exact size of the finished doors, even allowing for the small door gaps. The designs are transferred to the doors. Once done the painting begins, one colour at a time, one door at a time. It is a time consuming job as well as requiring artistic skill, and this is reflected in the price - such pieces are not cheap. We'll add more photos as the design is built up, then show the finished sideboard.
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There are many design options and variations we can do with such pieces of furniture. The sideboard can act as the base of a bookcase, display unit, media center or dresser - see the bookcase section for more ideas.
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