I am working towards building a new house budget and I am working on kitchen cabinets, bathroom cabinets and vanities to determine material costs to include in the overall house budget. In our powder (1/2 bath or guest bath) I want to do some sort of floating design. You'll see that I am focusing towards modern design. Anyways, the idea is to have the vanity be around 6-7" thick, 24" deep and 54" long. It will also have on one end a cabinet that will be used for whatever. The bowl will be brushed steel or chrome.
My question is more on the overall concept and also wood selection. I am hoping I can completely hide the plumbing within the box structure, though the plan shows some plumbing below. I also plan to have a recess on the end (size pending) to hide the toilet paper dispensor.
I will be using Birsdeye Maple for the kitchen cabinets a hallway away from this bathroom. There will be some patterned glass (most likely squares) used in the door frame of the storage unit. I am leaning towards Wenge for the base unit and storage unit sides and top. Or maybe even B/E maple for the sides of the storage unit and then wenge for the top of that. My concerns are price for Wenge locally $14.99/bdft and how will it handle occasional exposure to water (hand washing splashes, etc.)? Anything else i need to be concerned with in this application? If I don't use Wenge, what other suggestions for dark wood (I do not want walnut) do you have?
Finally, what's your thoughts on the Maple combination and also the idea of B/E maple sides or Wenge sides? The walls would be some nuetral color and maybe faux finished. Not sure on a back splash, but maybe it needs to be Wenge as well. Floor will be Maple or some type of tile.