Doesn’t surprise me. I found the cabinetry in a typical kitchen and bath showroom to be very high priced. I just looked at my quote and it was $1800 for a 24” vanity with the cheapest top material available. You don’t need to stick with what the designer recommends. I ended up going with an IKEA vanity with custom drawer fronts and side panels, soapstone top and vessel sink. Great function, great style and much smaller hit to the wallet.

Ask them if they have any less expensive options. Is that in proportion to the value of your house and the cost of this project?

Yeah, for custom-custom, it sounds high ... but probably 'bout right. Thoughts:

- For that price you're getting a couple drawers that'll be functional storage for your bathroom, right?

- On the positive side, quality lasts. My mom had custom cabinets made for her kitchen while I was pregnant with my now-28-year old, and they still look perfect.

- If you're looking to pay less (and I would be), ask the cabinet maker if any details you're requesting can be changed to lower the price. For example, if you're looking at inset cabinets, maybe you could change that to overlay.

- Does this include the counter top?

I have a vanity from Room and Board, and it’s great. Why not go that route?

I guess I was thinking it sounds high because our contractor estimated $3000 for mid-level cabinets, and he is very experienced, saw the space and knows the size of cabinets we are looking for.

I see lots of comments regarding bathroom vanities and cabinets where folks say to check with a local cabinet maker, and that custom cabinets that way may be less expensive than you think.

I did just email our contractor and ask if he has any local cabinetmakers that he works with so that we can price that out.

And I just went again to roomandboard.com and they seriously have a nice vanity for $2300, I'm going to go to their store and take a look.

Oh, and I do not think the $10K included the countertop, but I will double check with the designer .

$10K might be on point for custom, but I'd consider whether you really need custom since that sounds like a standard-sized space. We have a much smaller vanity (42") but found a range from $500 up to $2500 for custom. We ended up with a $1200 stock but well-built vanity that was on sale for $850 last Black Friday--no regrets. It isn't as fancy as what we would have gotten for $2500, but it is well-made with quality parts and functional, and well worth the $1650 we saved. If you don't need a custom size or special configuration, I'd certainly look at what you can get stock first since 72" is fairly standard.

There is "custom" and then there is custom and so ask yourself why you feel you need custom.

My vanity was about that size and probably was at least that much if not a bit more.

But mine is truly custom - doors are my design; wood is my choice (rift sawn white oak) and my stain choice

And the interior configuration is completely mine - the sink cabinet is clad with formica and has a roll out on the bottom; all of the doors have roll outs and there is one section which has custom insets so that my hair styling tools are able to be stored in "holes". There are electrical plugs. One end is a tall cabinet with a hamper on the bottom with a "door" that matches the other doors. And the cabinet maker also made a miniature matching door for my medicine cabinet as I decided I wanted to retain the side cabinet for easy visibility for medicine. And everything was my decision in terms of placement of the rollouts and shelves. Interior is also a custom color (not white or wood) and it matches the tiles.

Out of curiousity I looked up what my vanity which is about the same length cost. It is quarter sawn white oak and was installed in early 2018. I paid $4500 for it back then and it was 100% custom. Under the sink are roll outs and the center is three drawers.

It does seem high to me, even for custom. This is a custom vanity that we just had built and installed.  It's 60" plus 24" tall cabinet and the total price was $3200 in a hcol area. That price didnt include countertops or hardware, and it's stain grade maple.

72 INCHES FOR 10K ????????

No babe. No. No more than half of that, including the counter top, and the install. Even with soft close drawers, even with inset drawers/doors........I would stomp a foot at anything over 5K ALL in.

I paid $5K for a custom vanity about 8 years ago in Los Angeles. This wood shop had Moroccan inspired cabinet doors, but they would not sell my contractor the doors only, so I paid the price they wanted to get the design I wanted. No sinks, counters or faucets in that price.

For the house we built last year in FL, the 80" stained vanity with shaker style doors/drawers was $6K for cabinet only, no sinks, counter, faucet.

Those prices included installation.

There 100sof 72 vanities on line go check those priccs and then decide which route to take . I use custom when the the space cries for custon but not all the time. I just checked out ones on Wayfair in navy they have some for aheck of a lot less than that and with the counter and sinks.

You should be able to find a comparable but less expensive option.

There 100sof 72 vanities on line go check those priccs and then decide which route to take . I use custom when the the space cries for custon but not all the time. I just checked out ones on Wayfair in navy they have some for aheck of a lot less than that and with the counter and sinks. A 80" is custom but not 72"

We used a lower grade vanity for our bath than we used in our kitchen. Kitchen drawers need to be large and strong to handle pots, dishes, etc. Bathroom drawer contents are smaller and lighter -- hairbrushes, etc, so we accepted a lower construction quality. I bet you can be satisfied for much less than $10K.

This seems a bit high, but certainly not triple of what something like this will cost.

How is your designer receiving compensation? Through a mark-up, or with a seperate fee and then passing the designer discount through to you?

In a mark-up compensation structure the design components will seem more expensive, but the total costs to you may be the same.

Fee + Discount = Mark-up + No Fee.

Wow, that does seem high for even a custom vanity that is a standard size. My friends are doing a custom (smaller) size in the Cleveland area and for a 45" with features they want, it is in the $2,000 range. I would trust @JAN MOYER that this price is outlandish.

I can't speak for the twin cities. I can speak to logic and quality.

Having done recently, an 84 inch custom, TWO towers atop to the eight foot ceiling , all soft close drawers below with u track to bypass water lines and top it with quartz ? For all in 4k ?

I can tell you I adore spending money, but you'd have to beat me with a bat to get that 10 k amount even out of my mouth.

By the way, it's NOT the middle of nowhere here, by a long shot : )

We are paying the designer an hourly fee, and she is associated with a design studio. We are not obligated to buy any materials from her studio in our contract. When we discussed the price of the cabinets via the studio's vendors, I am now getting the vibe that she might have been trying to subtly tell us that we could get a better price elsewhere. She said, "often people's contractors have a cabinet maker that they like and that is who they go with."

This is our first time working with a designer, and I have to admit I'm a bit perplexed that she didn't volunteer more cost-effective options directly.

There's your answer.

"she is associated with a design studio". It's not her pricing - it is the studio RETAIL and then some.

There has to be a very decent kitchen and bath store, not big box in the twins. There has to be a local independent custom wood shop!

You don't have to abandon custom.......

What is the design of the ENTIRE bath? Size, Layout, tiles, etc. Post all that in a comment box. Same thread.

You have been given some really great options that in the end of the day saves you money to put else where ,if you have time and are allowed i would also suggest you go to a stone yard or fabricator and find out if they have a piece of stone or quartz that is an extra cut off that you like, this would save you money . We had our countertop , shower ,niche surround and window sill all cut from 2 off cuts of jumbo slabs of white quartz, saved us lots of money.

BTW: Our vanity also didn't include counters, sinks or faucets. We found a gorgeous remnant of white onyx and installed it was something like $300 dollars installed. The onyx is stunning in that it's like looking into multiple pools of water.

You can absolutely do what others are suggesting - find a remnant piece of stone for the top. Most bathroom vanities are small enough to do this. It's a good money saver and allows you to look at really pretty options that, in a kitchen, might be overpriced.

@chinacatpeekin, thank you for sharing the photo, I love the look!! And thanks to all who have weighed in. I'm glad to know my instincts were right and that the $10K price is out of line. I am leaning towards getting a nice quality Room and Board vanity, as the size is exactly what we need.

Only challenge will be that we need to reface a cabinet in the bathroom with the same finish as the Room and Board vanity, and Room and Board does not sell the doors and trim for refacing. However, I'm sure we can figure that out.

We also now have to decide if we're going with a navy blue vanity or white oak!

"Only challenge will be that we need to reface a cabinet in the bathroom with the same finish as the Room and Board vanity",

Navy or any other color will be a lot easier to match to any other cabinet. Take a drawer to a Ben Moore paint locale. They can match exactly,

I assume it isn't atop 72 inches.....resting on vanity. Why need it match at all?

We're not seeing the entire plan, all layout and materials...........better to post now, than later : )

That Room and Board vanity would not work for me. I would want one with 3 drawers on both side stacks.

For those interested, Room and Board has many other vanity designs and sizes to choose from. I only pictured the one I chose.

Too much! Unless they use some ultra-mega-super-awesome materials.

This custom-made vanity from my project costed 1300$ (vanity and countertop, no plumbing and bowl sink). I live in other coultry, you should increase it on 2-3 for a roughly similiar price in USA. It will be approx 2600-3900$ for a long 70 inch vanity. MDF board, natural oak for a counter. Depth of the vanity is unusually slim - only 18 icnhes. Simple drawer pulls.

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You can consider other materials to reduse cost of the vainty. Details matter. Drawer runners, hinges vary in price. There should be balance. Cheap can be expensive in long run.