Custom Bathroom Vanities

The reason custom vanities outperform catalog vanities comes down to fit and function. A 72-inch double vanity ordered from a catalog gives you two evenly-spaced sinks and standard drawers. A 72-inch custom vanity from our shop gives you the sink positioned where the plumbing rough-in actually lands, drawers configured for the person who uses each side, an outlet drawer for hair tools, a hidden hamper, and storage that fits a tower of bath towels. Same wall, very different room.

What’s included with Knutson vanities

• In-home measuring — wall length, plumbing rough-in location, electrical and switch positions, existing tile heights
• Design and 3D rendering — vanity elevation modeled with door style, sink, faucet, and mirror or medicine cabinet
• Hardwood plywood box construction — moisture-tolerant for a humid environment
• Solid-wood door and drawer fronts — in your selected species, or paint-grade for painted finishes
• Spray-booth finishing — multiple coats applied in a controlled environment, far better than a field paint finish
• Custom storage interiors — drawer dividers, outlet drawers, hidden hampers, makeup pullouts, tilt-out hair-tool storage
• Sink and faucet coordination — undermount, drop-in, vessel, or integrated, with cutout and faucet rough-in handled by our team
• Counter integration — quartz, marble, or natural stone vanity tops fabricated to fit the cabinet exactly
• Installation — by our carpenters, scribed and shimmed to the wall, with all caulk and trim detail finished cleanly

Choosing the right vanity for your bathroom

The first decision is single or double. The honest test is how often two people are at the vanity at the same time. If you and a partner share the bathroom on weekday mornings and brush your teeth at the same time, double is worth it. If one person is always done before the other starts, a single vanity with a long counter and tower storage usually delivers more usable function in less space. A double vanity needs at least 60 inches of wall — under that and the sinks crowd each other and the storage between them disappears.

The second decision is floor-mounted or wall-mounted. Floor-mounted is the traditional, more common choice. It hides the plumbing, gives you full toe-kick storage configurability, and reads classic. Wall-mounted (floating) reads contemporary, makes the floor look bigger, requires the bathroom floor to be finished cleanly under it, and demands precise plumbing rough-in (the supply and drain pipes have to be hidden inside the cabinet or the wall). Floating vanities are popular in current Twin Cities primary baths, especially with heated tile floors that wrap underneath.

The third decision is storage interiors. The cheapest vanity is a cabinet under the sink with one shelf. The vanity you actually want has dedicated drawers — for hair tools (with an outlet inside the drawer), for makeup, for medication, for towels — plus a hidden hamper and a pullout for cleaning supplies. We design the interior storage by walking through what you keep in your current bathroom and what currently has no good home.

Vanity cost and timeline

Vanity budgets in the Twin Cities depend mostly on size, species, finish complexity, and storage detail. As a working guide for a complete vanity (cabinet, top, sinks, and faucets installed): a powder-room vanity in painted Shaker with a quartz top runs $2,500 to $5,500. A standard single vanity (36 to 48 inches) runs $4,500 to $9,500. A premium single vanity with a marble or quartzite top, custom storage interiors, and an integrated medicine cabinet runs $7,500 to $16,000. A double vanity (60 to 84 inches) typically runs $10,000 to $24,000+ depending on species, finish, and storage detail.

Timeline: design takes three to six weeks, shop fabrication runs two to four weeks for a single vanity and three to six weeks for a double, and installation is one day to a half-week depending on scope. The whole vanity phase fits inside a normal bathroom-remodel schedule. What most often adds time: rift-sawn or quarter-sawn species (longer mill times), specialty paint colors, and natural-stone vanity tops with rare slab availability.

Our Twin Cities service area

Knutson builds and installs vanities throughout the Twin Cities metro, with a dedicated city page for Minneapolis vanities. Style direction follows the bathroom and the house. A 1920s Minneapolis bungalow primary bath usually pairs with inset Shaker cabinetry in painted poplar. A Highland Park colonial often gets a traditional inset vanity with a Carrara marble top. A 1960s rambler primary in Edina or Bloomington frequently takes a wall-mounted floating vanity in rift-sawn white oak with an integrated trough sink. A 1990s two-story primary in Eden Prairie or Maple Grove typically goes transitional — a painted double vanity with a quartz top and a stained-wood medicine cabinet pair.

Ready to design your vanity?

Request a consultation and we will visit the bathroom, measure, photograph, and walk you through styles, finishes, sink options, and storage interiors at our showroom. You will leave the first meeting with a clear direction and a realistic build budget.