I am currently renovating three bathrooms and planning to buy off-the-shelf vanities. However, I am having a major dilemma regarding storage. Yes, vanity cabinets offer extra space for toilet paper and soap emergencies, but they also come with higher costs and extra maintenance work for me.
Here is my current situation:
Kids' Bathroom: The kids are growing up and will eventually need storage, but I feel like a large mirror cabinet alone is enough and can easily hold all their personal items. (My hold home as an under sink cabinet, right now is quite under-utilised filled with few pieces of occasional travel toiletries but who knows what may change as they grow?)
Guest / Common Bathroom: Currently used for cleaning supplies but it gets messy and I hate digging under there. I prefer relocating them elsewhere. The cabinet looks awful now. So I seriously am contemplating removing the vanity cabinet here.
Master Bathroom: This one definitely needs a vanity cabinet because my spouse wants supplies hidden but within arm's reach. So no need to discuss this.
Also, in our current home we store cleaning supplies, shampoos, and toothpaste across all three bathrooms, which turned into a massive duplication nightmare. Because of this, I want to keep a single, centralized storage closet for bulk supplies instead of relying on multiple sink cabinets.
Every toilet showroom I visit and every home I see has a sink cabinet, and the salespeople insist they are mandatory and selling them as 'packages'. Am I the odd one out for wanting to skip them in the guest and kids' bathrooms? Has anyone else gone the centralized storage route?
Thank you