Medicine cabinets with mirror

A medicine cabinet with mirror is a bathroom essential

A big part of our lives happens in front of a bathroom mirror cabinet. It’s where we meet our sluggish morning selves and can splash alertness into our faces with some cold water. It’s where we can update our everyday look with a new hairstyle or makeup while getting ready for a night on the town.

A mirrored medicine cabinet is your bathroom bestie, doing everything from storing your contact case at night to providing a clear reflection so you can put those same contacts in come morning. We believe that if your bathroom was a doctor, it would prescribe a medicine cabinet for itself!     

A “bigger” bathroom with a mirrored medicine cabinet?

A practical mirror? Check. Invaluable storage? Check. Increased square footage? Not quite, but it sure can feel that way! A mirror’s reflective capabilities can act like an optical illusion, where the mirror is perceived as open space compared to a solid wall or door. Using mirrors to make a small space feel larger works just as well in the bathroom as in any other room.

A bathroom mirror cabinet can also help a room feel larger by keeping clutter at bay. As their name implies, a medicine cabinet is often used to store prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines like aspirin and antacids. But a spacious medicine cabinet also serves as storage for all your bathroom necessities, including face wash, moisturizer, contact lens supplies, bandages, toothpaste, shaving supplies, hand and nail care, soap, shampoo and so much more.

Match your bathroom mirror cabinet with your vanity

Mirrors match everything—it’s one of their greatest perks. But the rest of your mirror cabinet still needs to complement the existing bathroom furniture. IKEA offers many vanity units, bathroom base cabinets and tall linen cabinets that coordinate perfectly with available medicine cabinets. If you choose both pieces of furniture from the same series, you’re guaranteed to match down to the smallest details!

Many of our medicine cabinets can be customized for your storage needs. With adjustable shelves, you can make room for everything from cotton swabs and travel shampoo to your oversized shaving cream can. This means you can organize your toiletries just the way you like them: easy to reach but neatly out of sight.