u/MrsBeauregardless

I could either use a demilune vanity cabinet I have, and replace and/or cover the top with a large format glossy porcelain tile, that kind of looks like onyx, cut to fit the top of the cabinet, and cut holes for the regular old 8” widespread faucet and sink…

OR

I could use a rectangular cabinet and construct a back for it, so I could tile the back and surface with tiles my artist husband (BFA from MICA), artist son (autodidact), and/or I would paint in a storybook illustration style to create a narrative using the spout and sink, because my idea is to have the powder room feel like one is inside a fairy tale — while you’re in the bathroom — because I am basic, what can I say?

Here’s where I need your advice/opinion as aesthetes and craftspeople.

In the giant blue porcelain tile cut to fit the demilune vanity cabinet situation, I am figuring that I will need to round off the visible raw cut edge with a router and paint it with some sort of porcelain paint or epoxy or something. (I looked into brass edge banding, and it’s too expensive.)

The porcelain paint I have seen says you need to make it in an oven for a half an hour at 300° and then let it cool in the oven.

The only way I can think to do that on a giant piece of tile 35.5 inches wide by 21 inches deep, is to construct a solar oven out of cinderblocks or a kiddie pool with some kind of black paint or foil-covered insulation, and a glass cover and a mirror or reflective metal aiming the sun down into the “oven”where it’s being baked.

I thought of making some parabolic dish to reflect the sun into the baking pit, but I that would probably concentrate the heat into one area.

The latter option, with the rectangular cabinet, would be much easier, tile-wise, in that there are all kinds of ways to deal with tile with right angles, and the tiles would be small enough to fit in an oven.

The hard part there is finding a compatible backsplash/wall-mounted faucet that the spout can screw onto, that will last, and not cost an arm and a leg.

The choices are: demilune cabinet, regular faucet, pond sink, and large blue porcelain tile counter, where I may need to have to build a solar oven to cure the porcelain paint, or rectangular cabinet with a hand-painted tile backsplash and counter, pond sink, with a wall-mounted faucet featuring a spout in the shape of a fish being ridden by a water sprite/cherub/mer-baby.

What would you do, if you were me? What am I missing?

Maryland coastal plain, compacted soil, morning sun, then dappled shade mid day, then full shade the rest of the day.