Vanities in Scugog
A custom vanity is built to the width you have and drawn around the plumbing, floating on wall blocking or standing as a furniture piece. Scugog centres on Port Perry's heritage streets and the houses ringing Lake Scugog, many of them added to over the years. Older bathrooms tend to be narrow with the rough-in already fixed, while newer builds offer a wider wall and room for a double bowl.
Scugog, on the ground.
Narrow halls and turning stairs in the older village houses decide whether tall units ship in one piece or two. We measure the rough-in and the wall, build and finish the vanity in our shop, then set and level it on site so the stone can be templated against the real cabinet.
Lakeside rooms in Scugog have little solid wall, so storage moves into deep drawers and a single tall run.
Read more about custom cabinetry in Scugog or the full vanities page.
On the drawings, and on the quote.
- 01Elevations and a photorealistic rendering, with the sink and tap shown in place
- 02Drawer boxes notched around the trap so the drawer still opens fully
- 03Soft-close hinges and runners throughout
- 04Integrated pulls machined into the door, or hardware you choose
- 05A finished underside on a floating vanity, or a plinth and legs on a furniture piece
- 06Templating for the stone top once the boxes are set and level
No figures published. The drivers, in order.
| Driver | What we look at |
|---|---|
| Floating or furniture style | A floating vanity needs blocking in the wall and a finished underside; a furniture-style piece adds legs and a plinth. |
| Sink and tap choice | An undermount bowl, a vessel or a moulded top each change the cabinet, and a wall-mounted tap moves the plumbing before the boxes are built. |
| Drawers around the plumbing | Notched drawer boxes take shop time that a door and a fixed shelf do not. |
| Finish and door detail | A slab door in paint is quicker than fluting, a mitred rail or a machined integrated pull. |
The quote is written line by line off the drawings, with the cabinet, the hardware and the stone shown separately so you can see where the money sits.
Asked before the first call.
Can you replace a vanity without retiling the Scugog bathroom?
Usually yes, if the new cabinet covers the same footprint or more. We measure the tile edges and the existing plinth line at step 01 and size the piece so no bare floor or unfinished tile is left showing.
How long is a bathroom out of use?
Only for the install and the stone. The cabinet goes in and is levelled in [n] days, the fabricator templates afterwards, and the top is fitted on their return. Your plumber reconnects once the stone is in.
Our Port Perry house has a narrow hall and a turning stair. Is that a problem?
It is a measurement, not a problem. We take the hall width, the stair turn and the ceiling at the landing, then build anything that will not fit in one piece as sections joined on site. The joint lands on a reveal, so it reads as part of the design rather than a repair.
The kitchen looks at the lake and has almost no wall space. Where does the storage go?
Downward. Deep drawers hold more than uppers do and they do not interrupt a window line. We usually add one tall run on the single solid wall, put the microwave or the coffee setup behind a door there, and keep the window wall to counter and a low backsplash.