Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Aug 21, 2010 9:41 pm Hi, What a great site! Just loving this! Love some ideas.. We are renovating the whole house, starting with ensuite and main bathroom. Our plan is to have CS white shimmer in the kitchen with gloss white cabinets. We want to have the same/similar cabinets/benchtop in bathrooms. We found gorgeous 900 and 1200 vanities from a retailer at half the price our kitchen cabinet maker can do. However, the problem we are having is the benchtops. CS white shimmer is difficult to find in off cuts. We have rang many stores and cannot get it. Our options are: 1. To wait for some offcuts. Thus bathrooms all complete except vanities and splashback. 2. To purchase (thru retailer of vanities) dark constrasting laminate benchtop (darker colour will hide the joins better). Price is $100 cheaper than stone for 900; $300 cheaper for 1200. I have no problem with laminate, although it is 30mm, and I much prefer the 20mm. Plus cannot get the square edge I like with laminate. 3.To buy cabinets and basins through retailer. Then separately purchase 20mm squareform benchtop of our choice in laminate through a supplier of benchtops (Benchtop City etc). I assume we can also pay them to cut the holes for the basins??? If we go the third option .. How do we attach benchtop to vanity? Or do they always come separately and the tiler joins them?? Has anyone done this (bought cabniet and benchtop separately? Is there even more of a saving doing this? Having stone in the bathrooms is a luxury. We would be just as happy with laminate due to the possible savings. But if we had laminate we would go a dark top, with white glossy cabinet. Love some opinions. Thanks! Re: benchtop & cabinet question 2Aug 23, 2010 10:59 am I'm moving this to the bathrooms forum for you - I think you'll get more chance of an answer there. Re: benchtop & cabinet question 3Aug 23, 2010 11:10 am I have a dark brown laminate in my laundry and it shows scratches big time. Have you thought of a painted glass vanity top in the bathroom. I did this in one of mine and love it. I haven't really answered any of your questions, sorry Re: benchtop & cabinet question 4Oct 11, 2010 1:31 pm Hi MumofTwo29 , agree with you that this is a great site, I've just found this myself To answer your question, yes I've done this recently to my bathroom. I had a custom made vanity made to my specifications by my kitchen guy (without the benchtop) then called in a ceaserstone guy to measure up, cut and install the top (supply and install). All they did to attach the benchtop was use a silicon gun. They layed a thick bead of silicon on all the exposed upper areas of the benchtop and then set the ceaserstone on. Apparently once it sets it's incredibly strong stuff and i haven't had a problem with my benchtop since it was installed. The gap can be adjusted so it's tighter. You can definitely set up corner cabinets to have the same gap as standard doors. 2 13531 Hi Courtney The mitred edges are glued up with epoxy so those little holes and gaps are areas that weren't filled correctly. Silicone is the wrong product to fill them… 2 12912 |