Are you planning on adding a vanity to your bedroom? Here are some amazing bedroom vanity ideas you can recreate!
Like all other elements in your room, a bedroom vanity can be tailored to your own preferences, space limitations, and style.
For those with a budget in mind and a small bedroom, there are plenty of ways to take a standard desk and turn it into a part-time vanity.
There are also a variety of options available for purchase on the furniture market that capture the necessary components of a bedroom vanity.
After adding a few accents and personal touches to your new or used vanity, you will grow to treasure the time you spend in your new beauty oasis!
THE BEST BEDROOM VANITY IDEAS
1. Compact Vanity with Fold-Up Mirror
A fold-up mirror is truly magic for those who like to be precise and perfect in applying makeup, doing hair, or other self-care routines.
By simply pulling out the tabs on the side of the mirror, you can get other angles that help ensure harmony in the look you are trying to achieve.
Even more, the segmented gold pieces that break up the monotonous mirror are fun elements that add to the aesthetic of your little nook.
2. Custom Built-In Between Two Wardrobes
An important factor to look for in bedroom vanity ideas is the amount of storage space it has available.
You want to tuck away all of your primping supplies like cosmetics, perfumes, skin care ritual necessities, curlers and straighteners, you name it.
If you aren’t trying to drop money on a whole new vanity with built-in storage, you can still enjoy closeby storage.
Try nuzzling a pre-owned desk between two other wardrobes or shelves.
3. Corner Nook With a Compact Setup
If you have a bump out space in your bedroom, consider wedging a floating table in between the two walls for a vanity station.
Ensure that the floating table comes with a few drawers for storage, since there will be no room to fit a nearby shelf or wardrobe.
Finish off the space by adding a mirror of your choice and sliding a comfy seat underneath.
This is a cozy nook perfect for self-care time.
4. Use a Rolling Cart
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Rolling carts are a compact, easy method of storing toiletries and other cosmetics in a smaller space.
Due to their relative affordability and ease of setting up, a rolling cart is often used by college students attempting to optimize dorm life.
They are perfect for under the desk storage or fitting next to toilets in smaller sized bathrooms.
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5. Include a Classy Mirror
An elegant, classy mirror can work wonders on a room.
Transforming it from drabby and plain into something out of a fairytale!
A ton of thrift stores are brimming with antique mirrors, some gold and silver trimmed, others with flowery, eccentric designs.
But you can also find an affordable piece like this one on Wayfair.
Instead of hanging these vintage mirrors, which often are heavy, lean them against the wall for a more relaxed feel.
6. Double-Duty Desk Vanity
If you want to set up a two-in-one desk and vanity situation, ensure that the desk you choose has enough surface area.
Especially if you want to hold all your cosmetics and a small mirror while also saving enough space for your laptop and textbooks.
If you’re a college student looking for small bedroom vanity ideas, consider double-duty desk vanities to get the best of both worlds: beauty and smarts!
7. Vanity with Built In Drawers
When a messy pile of cosmetics, perfumes, and used q-tips are strewn over a vanity, it can make the entire room look cluttered and chaotic.
Purchase a vanity with built in drawers so that you can shove all of this mess out of line of sight!
With all of these products off the surface, you can have room to decorate the vanity with more beautiful things.
Like flowers, a vintage lamp, and a fancy perfume or two.
8. Minimalistic Acrylic Shelves
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If you already have a desk or table that you want to use as a vanity, and it does not come equipped with built-in drawers, no need to fret!
You can buy clear hanging shelves from Amazon and hang them on the corner wall by the vanity set up.
These types of shelves normally aren’t as discreet in hiding your products as drawers are.
So consider transparent shelves to avoid a cluttered, disarrayed feel.
9. Boho Chic Vanity
To achieve the vibe of a boho chic vanity, you will have to try to create a setup that is relaxed, eclectic, vintage and lightly modern.
This means that using an overload of decorations for your vanity is perfectly acceptable!
Include decorations like hipster posters, old school records, big bouquets of flowers, various candles.
Everything should be centered around the mirror.
Read: 16 Small Bedroom Ideas To Create a Cozy Space
10. Small Mirror with a Built-In Led Light
You don’t need a huge, overpowering mirror to also have a good vanity set up.
An LED powered makeup mirror comes with different magnification options will do a great job.
It allows for the amplified application of winged eyeliner, or the zoomed-out magnification needed for a task like doing your hair.
When not in use, the LED mirror makes the perfect night light or adds to a chill, evening time aesthetic.
11. Circular Mirror Accent
Choosing a circular mirror is one of the best bedroom vanity ideas to soften angular spaces and allow for a soft, natural look to be captured in your space.
Keep in mind that because the mirror is round, it cannot rest against the wall.
That means you will need to fasten these mirrors using screws and a drill.
12. Use a Clear Product Organizer
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For vanities without drawers or other storage elements, you are on your own with figuring out how you will try to organize all of your favorite products.
Good thing that there are thousands of organizers out there to help you out of this stitch.
Clear product organizers vary in shape, functionality and size.
They can rotate, include little drawers, stack tall or spread out horizontally, depending on your needs and preferences.
13. Place it Next to a Window
The best light to get ready in is the natural light of the sun.
That is why we call it golden hour!
So, if you have the option to, set up your vanity by a big window that normally receives a lot of sunlight for the optimal lighting for beautifying yourself.
Even better, soaking in natural rays can reduce eye strain, as it is healthier to consume sunlight compared to artificial lighting.
14. Decorate it With Flower Bouquets
One of the best methods of self care is buying yourself a weekly bouquet of flowers.
Each week, you can treat yourself to a different type of beautiful flower and admire them from their home on your vanity.
Flowers will improve your mood and diffuse a nice smelling scent for you to enjoy while you relax at home.
Read: 12 Smart and Simple Small Apartment Storage Ideas
15. Floating Wall Mounted Vanity
In rooms oriented towards a more modern, Scandinavian style, a floating wall mounted vanity will perfectly acclimate into the room that you’ve curated.
Floating bedroom vanities are clean, fresh and do not skip out on storage space through the inclusion of drawers.
Instead of backed chairs, try to go for stools when utilizing a floating vanity.
They are more minimalistic and achieve more continuity with the rest of the space.
16. Hollywood Style Mirror
Lights, camera, action, time to get beautiful!
A Hollywood style mirror, studded with old fashioned, oversized light bulbs around the border, provides actress-level lighting for glamming up.
They add an old school, vintage vibe to the space and nowadays the mirrors come with different features.
Think warm white, cool white, and daylight settings as well as adjustable brightness.
17. Soft Glam Vanity
Soft glam is all the new craze as of late, which essentially is the “no-makeup, makeup” look.
This style emphasizes natural and clean beauty over the overdone, cakey look of traditional makeup styles.
In terms of vanity decor, soft glam is simple and neutral in color, as well as minimalistic and chic.
All soft glam vanity bedroom ideas need is a pretty mirror and light decor to look great!
No matter the resources that you’re working with – stuck in the confines of a smaller room or strapped with a tight budget – with a little dedication, a beautiful vanity is an achievable aspiration for anyone looking to revamp their room.
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