Where to Buy Inexpensive Bathroom Vanities
Bathroom vanities provide an opportunity to enhance and add drama to any bathroom. One that blends seamlessly with the design and style of the bathroom provides aesthetic value to an otherwise commonplace and unexceptional enclosure with a bath or shower.
Bathroom vanities come in a variety of designs, materials, styles, sizes, as well as prices. This can range from US$500 to US$5,000. This price range depends not only on the kind of vanity you are buying but also where you are buying it.
With a little patience, you can buy the vanity that is perfect for your bathroom at even less US$500. You can begin by browsing the Internet for vanity manufacturers that sell to consumers at wholesale prices. In order to promote and popularize a new vanity brand or model, some manufacturers are willing to sell at reduced prices, or even below cost.
If there is a contractor in your area manufacturing vanities in bulk for wholesalers, you are in luck. Often they have stocks of vanities that do not quite meet the requirements specified in the contract and require repair or remodeling. If you are willing to shoulder the cost of repair, you can buy it at a price lower than what you would pay the retail or even wholesale store.
There may also be students of cabinetry in local schools who are interested in building a vanity for their project. You can make an arrangement with them, providing all the materials they need and perhaps a little financial incentive. They get good grades, you get the vanity.
In all states in the United States of America, except North Dakota and Vermont, and all provinces of Canada except Newfoundland and Labrador, there is a Habitat ReStore. A Habitat ReStore is an agency of Habitat for Humanity International that accepts donated goods for resale. These usually consist of home improvement goods, such as furniture, appliances, building materials, and bathroom vanities. You can visit a ReStore, buy your vanity, enhance your bathroom, and help build a home for the homeless.
Another option is to check out online retailers such as Amazon.com who may have a stock of vanity sets returned to them for whatever reason, perhaps because of some minor blemishes or dents, or it is the wrong color. By law, these can no longer be sold as brand new. They have to be sold as used at discounted prices.
There are also recycling centers that repair and restore used vanities making them look nice and new. Often, these can be purchased at 70% or 80% of their original cost.