Can you post a picture of the layout and/or an elevation?

Can you use a tile backsplash instead?

I did a 1-1/2" backsplash because I did not really want the appearance of a backsplash but I did not want the crevice at the back of the countertop and the wall.

Can't post pics right now since there are no lights installed. We have 2 std (36" vanities x 21" deep). Maybe I will have to do tile, just didn't want the added expense. Palimisest, like your 1and1/2" idea, the only prob is that the wall's texture, paint, etc is messed up after taking off the old formica backsplash, so that will stand out...I'm only so good at retexturing.

I have the 4" BS in the kitchen and don't like it. But when I redid my master bathroom I didn't want grout touching my sink counter so I opted for a shorter style quartz backsplash. It was filed down so it's not as thick as my counter. I love the looks and would do it over again.

Bad lighting but better pic to show example...

That looks really good. I just wasn't wanting to add the expense of more backsplash. That is a nice option though!

I typically specify a tiled back splash, which looks more elegant & customized than the typical, tiny slab backsplash that most contractors install.
The photo posted by FeatherBee is another nice option however.

Thanks LM! I still haven't heard back from my fabricator. I have found a backsplash that I love, but do you think it would look ok to have it at a total height of 6-6 1/2"? I would put a basic white, thin ceramic listello at the top. Both sides of the vanities are surrounded by wall and our sinks aren't centered so we need to keep with 1, larger mirror vs, the cute, smaller mirrors.

How messy do you think you are?

I had a freestanding vanity with a vitreous china top in my last bathroom that had a small lip on it and no backsplash. I did not want to add tile because there was no good place to start and stop and I was also planning on selling. Three years later it looked fine. In this house I have a wall hung lavatory in the basement bathroom with a taller area behind the faucets, but no backsplash. Three years in, that looks fine. However we don't really splash a lot and if we do we dry it off.

But contrast that to a friend of mine who has a short standard backsplash with no tile above it and she wore the paint off the wall in a couple years because her husband splashed, and also got toothpaste, shaving cream and spit mouthwash on the wall above the short backsplash and she was constantly cleaning it.

If you are not hard on things, you may be fine with the short backsplash or almost no backsplash. If you are hard on things, you may need to tile up to the bottom of the mirror. It depends on the different people in the family.

I installed an antique dresser as a vanity and did not want the area to look like a bathroom so I used marine varnish on the wood top and a washable BM paint sold for bathrooms on the walls sans any splash and a year later it looks the same as the day our bathroom went live. I am a clean as you go girl but my husband and kids are not and still we have no issues.

Bet that's beautiful roarah. So emergency is over...the fabricator found more of the same material. Now...to live with boring, matching backsplashes ;)

Nothing the matter with boring matching backsplashes.

So countertop is installed and backsplashes are a little over 3" high and I love it!

yay!