You need to find yourself a nice prefabricated granite shop. They import the counters already cut with an edge and back splashes polished. All they do is cut off a piece for you in the length you require, put in the undermount cut out, attach the sink and polish up the edges. It is a very affordable way to get granite for a vanity. They just charge you for the amount you use. Do a search for prefabricated granite in your city. The ones around here have tons of colors to choose from so you have lots of design options. Often they will also have discount sinks but if not they can use a sink you buy to cut the under mount opening. My prefab shop charges just $50 per sink for white or bisque oval or white rectangular. But I wanted bisque rectangular so had to find them myself. I just bought my sinks at Mr Direct for $70 each including shipping. http://www.mrdirectint.com/ to look at them. I bought the sinks through e-bay which had slightly lower shipping so saved about $10 over buying from them directly. I got my faucets at Express Decor. Home Depot and Lowes had nothing interesting. I got this one for $150 each. http://www.expressdecor.com/kraus-mil-1202-millennium-single-lever-basin-faucet.html for my master bath. I see they are running a 10% off coupon on it today. Even though I ordered it yesterday I saw in my e-mail they credited 10% back on my card today. :-) When we do our guest bath I'm getting this one. http://www.expressdecor.com/kraus-kef-14801-pu11ch-fantasia-single-lever-basin-faucet-and-pop-up-drain-with-overflow-chrome.html And probably this one for our upstairs bath. http://www.expressdecor.com/kraus-kef-14301-pu11ch-unicus-single-lever-basin-faucet-and-pop-up-drain-with-overflow-chrome.html In my case I'm getting my counter tops from a prefab shop but having it cut from a prefab island. I am getting a specialty edge that is known as a broken edge but still saving about a thousand off what it would be to buy an inexpensive slab and have my counters cut out of it.

Enzaenza, I did an exhaustive search of vanities recently, mainly because I needed it to be 18" deep and most stock vanities sold online or anywhere for that matter are 21". You will pay more for a custom piece. But if you shop around, you can find deals. The vanity I purchased at one retailer was $700 more at another retailer. Like you, I was looking for furniture style (with feet) and didn't want it to look like a box with feet attached as an afterthought. Something else that complicated my search was decorative side panels. Because the side of my vanity is the first thing you see when entering the bathroom, the side had to look good, IOW not a flat panel. One company, Wellborn I think, was going to charge me $425 a side to swap out the slab side panel for a decorative one. Crazy. I ended up ordering a 48 X 18 Shiloh vanity from their Furniture Style Vanity line and am very pleased with it. Inset style, soft close, full extension, custom glazed finish etc. I can post a picture of my new vanity, if you like. Here's a link to the Shiloh vanities: Shiloh furniture style vanities

Sarahbr, although I like your tile very much, for my master bath I'm looking for a darker almost black color. The more flooring stores I go to I'm learning bigger is what's in even in herringbone pattern, therefore I'm only finding 6x24 as the smallest porcelain floor tile. I may cave and just do that. I went to two more flooring stores today and they both have installed 6x24 herringbone in mid sized and small bathrooms. I saw Chip and Joanne just do a bathroom in herringbone pattern and the tiles look larger. Lol love their show!

I don't think you overpaid and as attractive as IKEA might be to some people it was never going to be an option for me. With custom I was paying not only for the superficial elements like the door style but also full customization of the interior including how "high" every drawer would be. OP what is the point of second guessing your choices? Your price for the vanity presumably included the expertise of your GC in terms of his supervising and determining that it was constructed properly and installed correctly. Presumably you got the "bid" for the vanity which included the total price. Most of the time my custom items didn't include specific prices broken out unless they were an additional design element after installation such as mmychanging the design on the upper cabinet plexiglass feature in my den/office. So that was equivalent to a change order when you do get pricing for the specific changes. When I was configuring the interior of my kitchen and bath cabinets I didn't get an individual breakdown for any of the options I added like rollouts or a drawer with a built in custom knife rack. When I decided to add some additional modifications to the interior I got a breakdown of that since that made sense - e.g. the rollout would cost $x per roll out. But typically the bids would not break down what I was getting in terms of cost of specific elements. If I received a bid and I thought it was not affordable to me I would have asked what the cost would be with solid doors - for example.