The right bathroom cabinets make even the most generic bathrooms more exciting. From where to find inspiration to how to make a cramped bathroom roomier, here are five bathroom cabinet ideas you should use in your next home remodel.

Match Bathroom Cabinet Colors to Your Favorite Painting

Homeowners often use their favorite paintings as inspiration for their home's color palette. With all of the tile and porcelain in a bathroom, adding color in that space can be difficult and expensive. However, your existing or new bathroom cabinets are the perfect palette for artistic inspiration.

Follow the 60-30-10 rule of interior design as a guiding principle:

• 60% of the room should be the main color of the painting. Use that on the walls.

• 30% should be a secondary color found in the painting. Use that on cabinets.

• 10% should be a sparsely-used highlight or accent color. Use that on trim or perhaps around your bathroom mirror.

Not sure where to start? Hire a professional cabinet designer to find bathroom cabinets in colors and styles that bring that artistry to your bathroom.

Make Vanities Shine With Dark Bathroom Cabinets Underneath

If you have an elegant marble or granite vanity top, it fades into the background when surrounded by neutrally-colored bathroom cabinets. To draw the eye to your favorite bathroom installation, surround it with dark cabinets.

For instance, a white porcelain vanity looks great with dark blue cabinets underneath. If you have a speckled tan and brown marble vanity, dark, richly-red cherry cabinets make the space feel a little warmer.

Open Up Small Bathrooms With Lightly-colored Cabinets

Half-baths and bathrooms without windows often feel small, dark and stale. Along with mirrors, lightly-colored cabinets add an airy feel to otherwise cramped bathrooms. No matter the type of cabinet, lightly colored cabinets really open up bathrooms.

Plato Woodwork's Prelude line offers many bathroom cabinet design options perfect for this purpose. Cabinets made of alder wood are tan to subtly red for a more rustic motif. For a more modern yet homey look, consider decorating your bathroom with cabinets made of light brown or grayish white oak.

Use Frameless Cabinets for a Modern, Minimalist Look

No matter what color scheme you use, frameless bathroom cabinets offer a cleaner appearance and more storage space than many traditional styles. Basically, the doors on this type of bathroom cabinet cover the entire face of the cabinet box. When you open it up, there's no frame — just storage space.

Whether you want maximum storage space in your bathroom or just aesthetically-pleasing, smooth, clean lines, frameless cabinets should have a place in your budget.

Use Antique Finishes for a Chic, Vintage Atmosphere

Decorating your home with antique furniture doesn't mean spending hours and thousands of dollars at architectural salvage stores. Instead, shop for bathroom cabinets with vintage finishes. While the exterior has all the charm of well-worn carpentry, underneath, these cabinets are new and sturdy.

You can also consider glazing your cabinets for a slightly more vintage look.

Weigh Your Options in One Place With Expert Assistance

If you're not sure what style, finish or material you want to use for your bathroom cabinets, Silver Lake Cabinetry of New Hampshire is Nashua Home Design Center's resident team of cabinet experts. From design consultation to full-service cabinet installation, they transform boring bathrooms and kitchens into living works of functional art. Schedule a consultation today or visit one of Nashua Design Center's other professional home remodeling experts.