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Bathroom cabinet

Cabinets or cupboards have been widely employed at different places, such as offices, study rooms, bath rooms and stores for storage of various articles, like files, books, merchandise and bathing towels, shoes and etc. Common toilet articles, such as toothbrushes, hairbrushes, combs, electric powered curling irons, hairbrushes and hair dryers are commonly used, and stored between uses, in bathrooms. Smaller items such as manual brushes and combs commonly repose between uses in medicine cabinets or drawers. Wall mounted holders suspend toothbrushes. Electrically powered items, laboriously wrapped around with associated cords, clutter counters, drawers and available cabinets. In wooden cabinets for bathrooms, it has long been a design practice to provide a recessed lowermost horizontal portion along the base of the cabinets to allow the front part of a person's feet to extend inwardly beyond the uppermost front surface. In this manner, the person is able to stand closer to the uppermost front surface, hence closer to the front of the countertop. Sink cabinets are frequently installed in bathrooms as well, where they are sometimes referred to as "vanities" from their resemblance to dressing tables. General features of construction of bathroom sink cabinets are identical with or closely similar to those of kitchen sink cabinets. Bathroom vanity cabinets are a common feature of modern bathrooms. Often, these cabinets have to deal with the problems associated with plumbing contained inside the cabinet. Various types of vanity cabinet structures have been used over the years. Many have included folding tops or covers which may be raised to reveal a mirror positioned for viewing when a person is positioned in front of the cabinet. The purpose of the bathroom vanity cabinet is to hold a bathroom sink and cover the associated plumbing, while providing an enclosure for holding various items and articles. It is also conventional to provide a cabinet, commonly referred to as a "medicine cabinet", mounted to a bathroom wall above and behind a lavatory (or elsewhere in the bathroom). A mirror is attached to the front of many such medicine cabinets, so that a person can observe his or her face while using the lavatory.

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