This is the cabinet for the house that has, over several years of renovation-by-Instagram-inspiration, accumulated an outsized number of skincare serums, one very good beard trimmer, and a flat iron that lives permanently plugged in because the outlet behind the pedestal sink was wired sometime before anyone in the house was born. 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 on the mornings the marine layer hasn't burned off yet and the whole bathroom feels dim regardless of the hour.

It also has two outlets and two USB ports built directly into the cabinet, which is, for a California bathroom with perhaps one working outlet total — a phrase that describes a shocking number of pre-war Los Feliz Craftsmans and foggy Richmond District flats alike — 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 contractor's guy — or a very patient roommate — should help 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 Venice bungalow where the bathroom mirror is, functionally, also your evening lighting once the light through the window has gone that particular gold-hour color and you'd rather not ruin it with a bare overhead bulb.

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 — useful when the plan is to hang it over a vanity that predates the concept of a GFCI outlet entirely.

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 full of boxy midcentury 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 Highland Park powder room and immediately reads as the most considered 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 ends up on someone's design mood board.

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 California; the kitchen island 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 dampness of a windowless bathroom — which, given how much of the state's housing stock was built without one, 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.