This is the cabinet for the house that has, over several decades of renovations-by-accretion, accumulated an outsized number of electric toothbrushes, one very good razor, and a hair dryer that lives permanently plugged in because the outlet behind the vanity was wired in the Johnson administration and no one dares touch it. The Dual-Lit lights both the mirror and the interior, so the cabinet stops being a dark box you rummage through by feel — a small mercy at 6 a.m. before the school run, when you've got one eye open and a Taylor ham, egg and cheese waiting that you refuse to call anything else.

It also has two outlets and two USB ports built directly into the cabinet, which is, for a New Jersey bathroom with perhaps one working outlet total — a phrase that describes a shocking number of real Gold Coast and shore homes — close to a miracle. Add anti-fog, three color temperatures, and stepless dimming, and this reads less like a medicine cabinet and more like the bathroom finally getting the infrastructure upgrade the rest of the house never did.

The trade-off: it is the priciest of the four, and at the larger sizes, heavy enough that your cousin Vinny — or a very patient neighbor — should come give you a hand with the install.

The Trio-Lit is what happens when a designer decides a mirror should also function as a mood. It lights the front, the interior, and adds a third ambient side glow — the kind of detail that reads as excessive in a house with a guest bath, and reads as genuinely lovely in a shore cottage where the bathroom mirror is, functionally, also your evening lighting after the sun goes down over the bay and you don't want to flip on a blinding overhead just to wash up before a late dinner on the boards.

It skips the built-in outlets of the Dual-Lit in favor of that third lighting zone, memory settings that recall your preferred brightness, and a detachable door that makes for a considerably less fraught weekend install than most cabinets manage — a blessing when the plan is to hang it over a vanity that was built before the words "backsplash" meant anything. It's the closest thing this list has to a cabinet that flirts a little.

The trade-off: no outlets or USB — if charging devices in the cabinet is the priority, this isn't the one.

Every so often, a renovation calls for a circle rather than a rectangle — and in a state of boxy builder bathrooms with sharp corners and not much else, a round cabinet in a black metal frame does a surprising amount of work softening a room that has, until now, only had angles to offer. It is the cabinet that walks into a Red Bank powder room and immediately reads as the fanciest thing in it.

It has front-lit perimeter lighting, three color modes, and a presence that reads more like a piece of furniture than a fixture — which is, arguably, the entire appeal. This is not the cabinet for maximum storage; it is the cabinet for the bathroom that gets photographed for the family group chat at Thanksgiving.

The trade-off: four sizes only, and it costs more than the rectangular options — a design tax, not unlike everything else with a view in this state.

This is the cabinet for the person who has already spent their entire renovation budget on the kitchen (this is New Jersey; the kitchen always wins) and needs the bathroom mirror to simply be good, reasonably, without further negotiation. At $189.99 it is the least expensive LED cabinet in the lineup, and it still manages two built-in outlets, three color temperatures, and an IP44 rating that means it will hold up fine against the particular humidity of a bathroom with no window — which, given the state of New Jersey's builder-grade inventory, describes a great many bathrooms.

The black or white metal frame gives it slightly more visual weight than the frameless options, which in a small room can read as either "intentional" or "a bit much," depending entirely on the rest of your fixtures.

The trade-off: the smallest size range of the four, and no backlighting or bottom glow — this one keeps things simple.