HD can get custom size pieces in any of the cabinets they sell (or almost all of them) the same way a kitchen shop will. If the standard size modules add up to the width you need, great. Otherwise they will order one or more of the pieces in a custom size for a small upcharge. I’m talking about their custom order cabinets (the ones for which they have door styles hanging on display)-not the ones on the shelves. You should get quotes on whatever size vanity you need in a couple of different styles from HD and from a couple of local kitchen stores. The local stores use some different suppliers (and some same) but, unless you go with custom built and finished at your home, will order separate modules to get the desired size the same as HD does.
In our neck of the woods, if a permit is pulled, electrical and plumbing work has to be done to code by a licensed contractor.
Costs of goods have skyrocketed. Our friend who is a general contractor who had owned a cabinet shop was shocked what my daughter just spent on kitchen cabinets.
We don’t have a Lowe’s local but Home Depot doesn’t get highly rated in my city. I think it is local and depends who HD contracts with.
We ran into the vanity issue last year when we were fixing up a few old rentals to sell. Older bathroom vanities were mainly flush with the wall. Now everyone goes to Home Depot or any of the other number of places that sell vanities and buys a prebuilt bathroom cabinet with or without the top. These are free standing in looks and aren’t flush with the wall. In all the bathrooms we did it left a few inches on one side where things could fall. You can buy trim pieces for the side but you’ll still have the space where you won’t be able to clean. The handyman who was working for us suggested a builders warehouse place that had cabinets with a flush side. Those are hard to find.
She bought some tile from Floor and Decor but most from TileCo which I think might be a small chain. She liked the local store as they had a designer who helped her with selection and was willing to let her take multiple samples. While using big box stores is easy it’s nice when possible to shop local. floor and Decor and HD often don’t carry the trim pieces of tile.
My daughter saved a lot of money by using a handyman for a lot of the work. She had a contractor friend come in for the things the handyman wasn’t good at.
My other daughter had a kitchen/ laundry room remodel after a leak from a burst pipe. She was dealing with insurance which was difficult none of the contractors she talked with wanted to do insurance work. She got a lot of bids on cabinets and from contractors and they varied widely.
YES!!! The composite I described in my post about our reno is Swanstone. It’s the carrara marble look, and it does look great!
Just wondering if you can do a niche (for shampoo bottles) and a bench with these materials.
We had our guy install the Swanstone white corner bench, but for shelving we used a side and a corner grab bar that also had white shelves as part of the shelf. They were Moen products.
My contractor had not worked with Swanstone before, but was pleased with how easily and smoothly it cut—we ran it right up to the ceiling (didn’t want to deal with tile, etc., above the shower walls) and he had to take about 8 inches off the top.
Interestingly, the 8’ Swanstone walls were cheaper than the standard sized ones (80 inches???)
Oh, and in our area, we found Swanstone at FW Webb.
Here are photos of the 9 inch corner grab bar shelf and 16 inch grab bar shelf:
Yes, those are among the Swanstone accessories shown here:
Fwiw, we re-did 2 bathrooms - about 10 years apart. Both times, we worked with a small independent contractor (different ones. ) If you have a community page on FB, you might ask for recs there. We told them what we hoped to change, and they helped us with layout, also letting us know how challenging certain changes would be because of pipes, etc. They were also great about looping in other ideas, like “ if you moved the shower here, you’d have the flexibilty to do xyz in the laundry room with the new pipes.” While all the aestheic choices were ours, and that is a bit overwhelming, we found both contractors were pretty great when it came to layouts and materials. They work with spatial problems all the time and have also done lots of projects, often for clients they work with over the years, so were helpful as well in telling us what future issues might be associated with different choices.
Both bathrooms were very small, so the difference in cost was small for tile and flooring upgrades, which allowed us to to something nicer. Countertops were remnants from the local stone place. Vanity came from Ferguson for one, Room and Board for the other. Catalogs, btw, are a good source of ideas. (I borrowed 80% of a powder room from a tile catalog and it’s fabulous!)
This is what I generally do. I find a picture(s) of what I want and duplicate. Now, with AI, I can feed an almost-there photo to the app and play around with modifications until I have exactly what I want as I described in another thread about adding bunk beds to the bedroom DH will finish at the cabin this summer.
I did not use AI for the under-stairs dry bar at the cabin, but I found a picture that was very close, and DH duplicated with the changes we agreed on:
Internet pic:
Result:
If you are going to work with a designer or contractor, it helps immensely to start with some pictures. I do the same with my hair stylist so there is no confusion about what I want.
So fun to see! Any reason you didn’t do that wine storage feature? Looks like it would have fit! (We don’t drink wine so we wouldn’t do it either)
We have wine storage upstairs. That space houses a pullout printer on the opposite side where DH has his under-the-stairs office.
Ahhh, sneaky sneaky!!! 
We tend to pick the vacations and not the home updates.
I think we paid $20ish K for our primary bath redo pre-covid. And our bathroom isn’t that big. It wouldn’t surprise me if 2 full baths cost over $40K.
Just had some custom cabinets priced. The guy at Lowe’s was super helpful. Since we’re going down to the studs, I think it might actually save us money to take an inch off of our closet rather and go with a stock vanity than try to create something that will fit the space.
Visit the Ferguson showroom. Was hoping for more “show” in the room. They only had two options for showers. An acrylic prefab or a prefab sheet that they said couldn’t be cut to size. (It wasn’t Swanstone). The guy started our project. So far it consists of nothing but a shower pan.
New question - can you do a built in bench if you use a shower pan?
Vanities - I’ve looked all over and found two stock ones that I would be really happy with. It seems that everyplace carries the same vanities.
Has anyone shopped at Joss and Main. They have a vanity I like and also say they offer design services.
Off to schedule another contractor for a quote. This time I will ask about resizing the closet and get his take on it.
Fixtures. I’m really drawn to pictures I see that have gold fixtures. Passing fad? I could also switch out anything chrome in my bedroom for gold to make it more cohesive.
Funny I was looking at a kitchen faucet we need to replace and there are not really any other fixtures in that space to worry about “clashing with” - I was a fan of this - not a “bright” gold but sort of a soft gold (to me).
I think it was this one - sort of a brushed gold.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Delta-Kylo-Champagne-Bronze-Single-Handle-Pull-down-Touchless-Kitchen-Faucet-with-Sprayer-Deck-Plate-Included/5015280919
I think if you like the gold look, go for it. It’s your bathroom 
For faucets, consider:
- Ease of cleaning – fancy designs with nooks and crannies are less desirable.
- Not having or causing places to pool water.
- Ease of use – lever handles work better than knobs for many people.
Speaking of cleaning, I think it’s better to get the handles that are farther apart/easier to clean
I recommend the low-profile look of single-hole faucets, like this one. We’ve swapped out all of the faucets in our house and cabin for single-hole units. They make for easy cleaning and a clean-looking deck with more usable space.
We considered a built in bench but opted to put in a teak one when necessary.