Vanity question/advice ~ I need a glamour staion!!

[sewpunk]

I currently store all my makeup and brushes in the bathroom cabinet, and I am looking into get a vanity (with mirror, perferably a light up mirror almost like a studio/salon setting) so I can get my makeup out of the humid bathroom enviroment, and have a dedicated place for makeup storage and application. And besides I want a pretty place in my bedroom for my girly stuff!

Where could I get one? Does anyone have a good source? Care to post a pic of yours? Remember a site you saw a cool one on the net somewhere?

I have been looking all over (mostly on the internet), and all the ones I have found are really expensive (over a grand), are really ugly, or they have no drawers. I need drawers for my stuff! I have modern tastes, and perfer sleek design, or organic looking stuff, like funky wood tones.

My husband has offered to make me one, but I know it is not high on his to do list, so if I can find one for a reasonable price, I'm sure I could buy it with no problems... I wish I could find one that met all my needs.

Help!

 

[Shimmer]

check estate sales, or secondhand furniture stores.

 

[DaizyDeath]

go to antique stores!
they have some really cute vintage vanitys there ive seen tons just takes a little bit of looking.
and if you want that vanity lighting like hollywood style preety much every lighting store has those for cheap!

good luck

 

[bottleblack]

If all else fails you could combine a smallish cute desk and mount a mirror over top of it?

 

[Makeupluvr]

This isn't mine but it is my DREAM makeup desk!

http://www.makeupalley.com/account/p...picture=125042

http://www.makeupalley.com/account/p...picture=125038

http://www.makeupalley.com/account/p...picture=125037


Belongs to MUA member openscrt and I know she got it at The Container Store. (www.thecontainerstore.com) The pieces are still some what expensive but your total cost would be in the $100's not the $1000. It is the elfa system. I contacted her to find out the exact pieces she has but she recently moved and has been really busy. I did some research and I can tell these are the pieces she has but I don't know the drawer depth etc:

http://www.containerstore.com/browse...5&PRODID=65674

http://www.containerstore.com/browse...5&PRODID=65675

Also, the now have mesh drawers:

http://www.containerstore.com/browse...5&PRODID=71209

I have to go now but check out the site to find the desk top! LOL.

Good luck and keep us posted!

 

[Beauty Mark]

Ikea may have a desk you could convert. I'd check any used furniture stores in your area; some of them have real finds.

 

[sewpunk]

what great ideas! I had been thinking Ikea as well! I have one right down the street and I stop (and shop) in quite frequently. (More the half of my house furnitire is from Ikea) All my makeup is in an Ikea storage system in the bathroom!

I also have a Container Store right by me as well. I may be going out this weekend to do some browsing! I like what the MUA member did. I will have to look into it.

We have a lot of antique stores in Philly but all the quality furniture is usually pricy, and all the hipsters snach up all the good thrift finds!

Thanks for all your input! I will keep you posted!

 

[midgetfury74]

wow, thank you so much for this post, i hope more people add to it, as ive been on the same internet search/hunt and prices are REDICULOUS, so definately any more ideas to share please post. i love you gals!

 

[tommysgrls4]

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Originally Posted by midgetfury74 wow, thank you so much for this post, i hope more people add to it, as ive been on the same internet search/hunt and prices are REDICULOUS, so definately any more ideas to share please post. i love you gals!

Mine is from Target, It is very girly and I LOVE it

It's a distressed white shabby chic style with the glass balls for knobs. Very Very cute & under $200.
This isn't the one I have but it is cheap

And, it could work with a few cool accessories, The wicker bin's are so great, they hold so much and keep it all easy to get to but out of sight. Just a thought...


http://www.target.com/gp/help/help-h...1?node=1039412

 

[tommysgrls4]

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Originally Posted by DaizyDeath go to antique stores! they have some really cute vintage vanitys there ive seen tons just takes a little bit of looking. and if you want that vanity lighting like hollywood style preety much every lighting store has those for cheap! good luck

I did this at our cottage, worked great and was very inexpensive. I bought an inexpensive desk that was fairly narrow but long and had an octagon mirror I hung above it, Used the tall sterilite drawer's to keep my "Stuff" I still used my makeup mirror most of the time. It did the trick of keeping my things together and a place for me to do my work

 

[Makeupluvr]

Quote:

Originally Posted by tommysgrls4 Mine is from Target, It is very girly and I LOVE it It's a distressed white shabby chic style with the glass balls for knobs. Very Very cute & under $200. This isn't the one I have but it is cheap And, it could work with a few cool accessories, The wicker bin's are so great, they hold so much and keep it all easy to get to but out of sight. Just a thought... http://www.target.com/gp/help/help-h...1?node=1039412

The link didn't work

Can you try again? Or tell us what to search?

Thanks!

 

[TIERAsta]

i saw one from pottery barn. they don't ship to HAWAI'I though... but it was pretty expensive. i think www.pbteen.com

 

[jmgjwd]

I too looked for a vanity EVERYWHERE but the one's I liked were $900+ so what I did instead was used two of those Sterlite (sp?) tall 5 drawer things on wheels and got a piece of MDF board cut to size (20" x40") at home depot-painted it and placed it on top of the sterlites, w/ a space in the middle for a stool/my legs. I then velcro'd fabric around the board to match my bedroom. I was lucky to find a beautiful tri-fold mirror @ Biglots (though I still use a light up mirror to put on makeup). Sorry I don't know how to work a dig camera..but I think it came out pretty & you can change the fabric as you like.

 

[doris98]

Here's my own glamour station. I use mostly BE now and stash them in the drawers so I can see all the colors. I got this vanity custom made but I'm sure you can find one just like it in antique/thrift stores. (I copied this from an ebay antique.) Good luck in your hunt.

http://img.makeupalley.com/9/6/8/7/761635.JPG

BTW, I love how this works for me. I'm sitting down, everything's at my fingertips, I have lighting, and a power outlet for my hair dryer and light.

Here are photos of my BE stash in each of the drawers, just so you can see how they work.

http://img.makeupalley.com/9/6/8/7/725562.JPG

http://img.makeupalley.com/9/6/8/7/725563.JPG

 

[*KT*]

Some nice options here...

http://www.onewayfurniture.com/vanbenset.html

I particularly like the ones with a whole column of drawers. Just one across the center would not be enough!

 

[Twinkle_Twinkle]

You could try going to a place that sells unfinished furtinure and treating the wood yourself. That's what I want to do, ideally.