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View all servicesAlmost every bathroom complaint is a storage complaint wearing a different coat. The fix is rarely a bigger vanity — it is deciding, before the walls close, where the depth is going to come from: a recessed cabinet, a niche in the right stud bay, blocking for a floating unit, and drawers instead of a cupboard.
Miami-Dade · Broward & Palm Beach Counties
ScrollRecessed cabinets need a stud bay clear of plumbing and wiring. Niches need to land in a wall that will take them. Floating vanities need blocking that was installed before the board went on. Every one of those is a rough-in decision, and none of them can be added once the room is finished.
Survey of what the walls actually contain, a storage plan drawn against the stud and service layout, blocking and recess framing installed before board, waterproofing that is not compromised by any of it, then vanity, mirror cabinet, niche and shelving fitted to a level datum.
Start your bathroomThe usual brief is not "make it beautiful" — it is "there is nowhere to put anything". A vanity-led remodel solves that without moving the plumbing, which is what keeps it a manageable project rather than a full gut.
A South Florida bathroom runs wet and warm for most of the year. That decides the vanity substrate, the finish on the carcass edges, whether the extract fan is genuinely sized for the room, and whether a recessed cabinet is sitting against an exterior wall where it will find the dew point.
Ordered roughly by how much of the room has to open up. The first two are usually enough.
The vanity carries the bulk storage, the mirror cabinet carries everything you reach for daily, and lighting is built into the mirror rather than added beside it. Replacing both as one set is what makes the room read as designed.
Storage taken out of the wall cavity rather than added to the room. It has to land in a stud bay clear of pipework and be waterproofed as part of the tanking — which is why it is a rough-in decision and not a tiling one.
The cheapest storage in the room and the only kind that can be added afterwards, provided there is something behind the board to fix into. Blocking installed early costs almost nothing and keeps the option open.
Visually lighter, easier to clean under, and entirely dependent on blocking set into the wall before board. Retrofitting that support into a finished room means opening it again.
A drawer presents its whole contents at once; a cupboard hides two thirds behind the front row. The plumbing trap position decides how deep the top drawer can be.
Where the layout itself is the problem, the room is re-planned around where storage can physically go — and the fittings follow that rather than the other way round.
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The cabinet above the vanity is recessed and backlit, so it does the job of a mirror, a light fitting and a cupboard at once. That is depth taken out of the wall rather than volume added to a small room.
The recess sits inside the shower where it is actually used, which means the tanking had to be detailed around and into it. Placed as an afterthought, that same recess is the first place a shower leaks.
Mixer, shower fittings, drain, shelf brackets, rail and cabinet pulls are all the same matt black. It is a cheap decision that reads as expensive, and it only works if it is settled before anything is ordered.
Fittings in, glass hung, cabinet lit and the room in use. What the photographs cannot show is the blocking and the waterproofing behind all of it, which is the part that decides whether it is still right in year ten.
Storage cut into a bathroom wall crosses the waterproofing. Six layers decide whether that is fine or fatal. Select one to see what it does.
Where the storage is physically possible. Recessed cabinets and niches need a bay clear of pipes and cables; floating vanities and shelves need solid blocking behind the board.
This is the only layer where storage is cheap. After this it is demolition.
LayerTrap and supply positions set how deep the top vanity drawer can be. Mirror lighting, shaver outlets and any heated element need a protected circuit run before the wall closes.
LayerCement or fibre board in the wet zone rather than ordinary drywall. It is the surface the waterproofing bonds to, so a substrate that softens takes the tanking with it.
LayerA continuous membrane across the wet zone, lapped into the floor and carried into every niche, corner and change of plane. Tile is not waterproof and grout certainly is not — this layer is the one doing the work.
Every recess you add is another set of internal corners the membrane has to turn cleanly.
LayerLarge-format porcelain needs full coverage under it and a flat enough substrate to avoid lippage. Mosaic floors need the fall built in before the tile, not chased afterwards.
LayerA fan sized for the room and ducted to outside, not into the roof void. In this climate it is what protects the cabinetry finish and the paint far more than any product choice does.
Lighter in a small room and easy to clean beneath. Entirely dependent on blocking installed before board.
Maximum storage volume for the footprint and forgiving of an uneven floor. The default where storage is the point.
Where the room is genuinely too tight for a vanity, storage moves onto the walls and into a recess.
The vanity decides the trap height, the basin decides the waste position, and a recessed cabinet decides which stud bay has to stay clear. Choosing them after the wall closes means either compromising the design or opening the wall again.
Requirements are set by the authority having jurisdiction for your municipality and genuinely differ between them. What follows is how the stage runs, not a promise about what your city requires or how long it will take.
Swapping a vanity in the same position usually does not. These generally do:
A recessed cabinet is only possible where the stud bay is clear. Finding a waste stack behind the wall you had planned to recess into is a design change, and it is much cheaper before the drawings are finished.
Plumbing and electrical are inspected before board, and the waterproofing is checked before tile. Both gates exist because the alternative is finding out through a ceiling downstairs.
Whether your scope needs a permit and which sub-permits it triggers are set by your jurisdiction. Nothing here is a legal opinion. We tell you what applies to your scope before you sign anything.
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A vanity-led remodel has an unusually wide range, because it can mean a swap or it can mean opening the wall. These are the twelve factors that decide which.
Keeping the basin where it is turns a project into an installation. Moving it opens the wall and the floor, and brings a permit with it.
Anything recessed means framing, waterproofing detail and a stud bay that has to be clear. It is the single biggest fork in this scope.
Stock, semi-custom or made to measure — and whether the top is integrated, stone or a separate basin.
Surface-mounted, or recessed and lit, which needs both a clear bay and a circuit.
How much of the wet zone is being re-tanked, and how many recesses it has to turn into.
Large-format needs a flatter substrate; mosaic needs more labour and more setting time.
Mirror lighting, shaver outlets and protection on the circuit serving them.
Sizing the fan for the room and getting a duct to outside rather than into the void.
Soft substrate, old failed waterproofing or a leak found at strip-out.
A floating vanity and a linear drain both expose a floor that is out of level.
Sequencing to keep the room usable, or planning around not having it.
Changing the vanity during design is a drawing revision. Changing it after rough-in moves the trap, and after tile it moves the tile too.
After a site visit you get a written scope priced against drawings — stating what is included, what is not, and where a contingency is likely. We will also tell you whether your storage problem needs the wall opened at all, because frequently it does not.
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Only where the stud bay behind it is clear of plumbing, wiring and ducting, and only if the wall is not carrying something that objects to being cut. We survey the wall before drawing anything, because finding a waste stack behind your chosen spot after the cabinet is ordered is an expensive way to learn that.
Because it has to be carried by blocking set into the wall before the board goes on. In a room that is already finished, that means opening the wall, adding the support and making good — which is most of a small remodel before the vanity even arrives.
Drawers, almost always. A drawer presents its entire contents when you open it; a cupboard hides two thirds of its volume behind the front row. The one constraint is the trap: it dictates how deep the top drawer can be, which is why a notched or U-shaped drawer is common in the upper position.
Only if it is treated as a tiling detail instead of a waterproofing one. A niche adds internal corners the membrane has to turn cleanly and a shelf that has to fall forward very slightly so it drains. Detailed properly it is no more risk than any other part of the wet zone; detailed as an afterthought it is the first place the shower fails.
Usually not, if it goes back in the same position with no change to supply, waste or circuits. The moment plumbing moves, wiring is added or the wall is altered, that generally changes — and those are exactly the parts that matter later. We establish what your scope requires and file where it is needed.
Sealed, moisture-tolerant carcass material with properly finished edges, and hardware in a finish that will not pit. What matters at least as much is the extract fan — a room that dries out quickly is kinder to cabinetry than any material choice, and a fan ducted into a roof void is not extraction at all.
That is the real cost question. A like-for-like vanity and mirror is an installation. Anything recessed means the wall opens, which brings framing, waterproofing and tiling with it. We will tell you honestly which one your storage problem actually needs.
Often yes, with a shallower unit than standard, and the rest of the storage moved into the wall and onto it — a recessed mirror cabinet, a niche in the shower, and shelving fixed into blocking. Small rooms benefit most from depth taken out of the wall, because they have no floor area to give.
Yes, and it should be settled before anything is ordered. Mixer, shower fittings, drain, cabinet pulls, shelf brackets and rails coming from different suppliers will not match by accident. The room shown on this page carries one matt black through all of them, which is why it reads as designed rather than assembled.
An integrated top is one piece with no joint to keep clean and is very forgiving in a family bathroom. A separate basin on stone gives you more choice of shape and a better stone, at the cost of a seal that will need attention eventually.
Something found at strip-out: failed waterproofing behind the old tile, a soft substrate, or a slow leak nobody knew about. It is why a contingency belongs in the budget from the start, and why we would rather open a small area early than guess.
Yes. We work with four financing partners — Service Finance, Synchrony, Ygrene and Renew Financial — so you can compare options before you finalise the scope. Terms and eligibility are set by each lender and differ by programme.
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Details from the same completed bathroom.
A completed vanity and storage remodel, shown as a still rather than a film — there is no cleared footage of this project, and we would rather show you a real photograph of it than borrow a clip from another job.
Strip out, then framing and blocking, then services, then an inspection before board. Waterproofing and a second check, then tile, then the vanity, cabinet and shelving. The storage decisions are all made in the first third.
Blocking positions against the vanity and shelving drawing before board. Waterproofing continuity into every niche corner before tile. Cabinet and shelf alignment against a level datum, not against the wall.
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It costs almost nothing at framing stage and it is the difference between shelving you can add later and shelving that means opening the wall again. We install it even where the current design does not use it.
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Where to go next, depending on which part you are pinning down.
When the storage problem turns out to be a layout problem, and the whole room is worth re-planning rather than re-fitting.
The useful detail is what you actually need to store and where it lives now. Photographs of the room, including the wall you wish had a cupboard in it, help more than dimensions do.
If a better vanity and a recessed mirror would solve it without touching the plumbing, we will say so — that is a much smaller project than the one you may be expecting.
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Where the studs fall and what runs between them decides which storage is possible long before anyone picks a door finish. Start with a conversation — no obligation, and no brochure.
