I'm with your husband; the freestanding vanity design saves you from having to move plumbing and radiator to center it, and also will keep the gap from looking wierd. Indeed, the gap will look like a "I meant to do that" feature rather than a "I had to do that" feature. Having that vanity centered/uncentered is one of those things that will show up more on paper than in your real life room. That means that you'll probably notice it (because you're aware of it), but no one else ever will.

Have you seen Strasser Woodenworks? They have 30" wide vanities with 3 drawers in them. And they come in 21" deep or 18" deep versions, so if you need a smallish vanity they might work. They aren't cheap, but when we bought one 8 years ago it was well made. -Pam Here is a link that might be useful: Options with Strasser

We will have the 27" subzeros (all fridge and all freezers). I think the benefit to counterdepth is that stuff doesn't get lost in the back of the fridge! Most of the space in my current regular fridge is used up by stuff that probably shouldn't even be there anymore. The shorter depth may impact your ability to store larger platters during entertaining, which is my biggest worry. I'm likely going to get a fridge for the basement to store the big stuff for parties.

Of course some of my lights created a problem in our case, but it's not what I'm trying to say.. The suggestion was made that there is a variety of boxes available. No, in our case, no variety was available to us. It was one size box, and the remodel is ongoing and recent. I also know that the code tends to change pretty frequently (I won't bore you with another story about our gas meter, but the gas company installed new meter-and then the even newer one)) And it happened pretty fast..)) So what do I know, maybe 2 years ago whoever remodeled/installed a new box had the said variety. Or had the variety we didn't but also didn't have to pass an electrical inspection. Again, if you gather people on Earth and ask them about electrical anything -I really don't want you to notice me in the crowd)) Just sharing the story of how I decided to go for the overhead light in my guest bathroom (I could get different sconces, right? Bigger plates and all. Even if the plate is 4,5-and you have a wall from one side..and you have to be a few inches away from the very corner, right? So to those several inches, add 9 inches when you calculate spacing, instead of ten. Wouldn't look good anyway. Not in my space. The electricians didn't try to accommodate my specific sconces. They also didn't know which sconces I had in mind. They are electricians..they were asked to put boxes on the sides. And then they did. And then I saw it. And then I looked at it more..and more..and more..)))