While pedestal sinks are great for many of the reasons mentioned on this site there is a drawback to them. Many people complain about the problem of how to store things on or in their pedestal sink. Unlike the normal vanity sink; you don’t have luxury of extra space around the top part. You also don’t have the cabinet space or draws on the bottom. While this issue isn’t that big of a deal when using a Pedestal Sink in your powder room it does cause some problems when used in the master bathroom or other full bathrooms.
If your a fan of the pedestal sink, the storage issue is not much of a big issue, but for the others there are some solutions to this problem. The easiest thing to do is to install a medicine cabinet that goes with your bathroom theme. Just make sure the cabinet does not clash with the pedestal sink or you’ll be defeating the purpose of adding such a unique piece to the area.
Another technique is to buy vanity draws that go along with your theme and place one on each side of your pedestal sink. This is best used in your master bathroom since you need room to do this. If you have lots of space in your master bath, you can do it up really nice with two pedestal sinks. In between them just add a nice cabinet or one of the many units you can stick to the wall. As long ad the wall unit is not too obtrusive I like to go with them, especially when making storage space in a powder room. With just a little extra work you can easily make sure you will have a storage area near your pedestal sink.
Nice post on the issue of pedestal sink storage. In my house I have one in my powder room but in the master bathroom we need to add storage space. The vanity draws work great to fix the problem.
Also any plays for a post on how to install a pedestal sink. I think that would help a lot of your readers.
Hi Tim,
Thanks for reading. Thats great you have a pedestal sink in your main bathroom. Many people won’t do that because of the storage issue, but it usually comes out really nice.
I’m actually working on an article about how to install a pedestal sink. So you should see it soon.
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