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Choosing Bathroom Vanities
Wed 07 Feb 2007 - 16:55
Choosing Bathroom Vanities
By Ken Wilssens
There are bathroom vanities of a number of different varieties, and the name for them has a rather funny and interesting origin. The word vain means proud or narcissistic, and those who are proud of their looks or over infatuated with themselves are often referred to as vain people. So the person who likes to primp and look at themselves in the mirror alot is a person often considered to be invested with more than their fair share of vanity, and for those persons, the bathroom furniture to enable them to admire themselves and do things to make themselves look dandy before going into public was created and aptly named the vanity.
The bathroom vanities of modern times probably really got their foot in the door of our bathrooms during the Victorian era, when women of means and wealth would have hand maids to help them dress and decorate themselves, and these hand maidens would usually sit the woman down on a chair and surround her with mirrors and make up and her wardrobe. So furniture became a part of getting dressed, and especially when the hair had to be done in ways that took much labor and time. Even today, doing hair and make up takes some people hours, and this is why people like to have nice comfortable chairs and other furniture, in the form of bathroom vanity areas, to help them accomplish this kind of work and labor of vanity with ease and as much comfort as possible.
In fact, one of the most popular and elegant types of bathroom vanities incorporates a wing chair, which is a chair that was originally designed for comfort for sitting for long periods of time reading or relaxing. Many people find that this kind of chair is ideal for their bathroom vanity area, as long as it fits well with a small desk that has a really good mirror and great lighting and lot of little places to store various lotions, cremes, lipsticks, and other tools and tricks of the make up trade.
To learn more about the history and design of bathroom vanities, just look through the Internet, doing searches for history and bathroom accessories and that sort of thing, and you can view all sorts of interesting and elaborate old fashioned vanities. You might even get some good ideas for creating your own one, in modern times, drawing upon Victorian ideas.
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bathroom lighting and other bathroom
remodeling related topics, visit Bathroom Info at
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