Bathroom Vanities designed, built and installed for Santa Monica — century-old bungalows a mile from salt air, on streets with nowhere to park. Our Los Angeles showroom downtown serves the Westside daily.
California bathrooms are frequently open to the bedroom or to a private garden, so the vanity is read as part of a larger room rather than as a fixture in a wet one. That pushes the detailing toward furniture — visible ends, a considered underside on a wall-hung unit, integrated lighting — while the construction still has to be specified for steam. Near the coast, hardware is chosen for marine air even in an interior room.
Streets are dense and parking is genuinely difficult. Deliveries are booked, permitted where required, and kept short.
Ocean air reaches most of the city, and it is closer to a marine environment than people expect a mile inland. Hardware and finishes are specified accordingly rather than as though this were a dry inland market.
The bungalow stock is small-roomed and full of original detail. The usual project takes one wall out and then works hard to make the new cabinetry belong to a house built a century ago.
What follows applies to every bathroom vanitie we make, in Santa Monica and everywhere else.
A vanity is the piece of cabinetry that takes the most abuse in a house — standing water, steam, heat from styling tools and daily opening — in the smallest space. It has to be built for that and still look like furniture, which is a materials decision as much as a design one.
Drawers are notched around the trap so the space under the basin is usable rather than nominally there.
Moisture-stable cores, sealed edges and a finish specified for steam rather than for a dry room.
Floating the vanity keeps the floor continuous and makes a small bathroom read larger, and it puts the plumbing where it can be reached.
More on how we approach this → Bathroom Vanities
We work throughout Santa Monica, including North of Montana, Ocean Park, Sunset Park and Wilshire-Montana. The housing here is Craftsman and Spanish bungalows, 1920s and 1930s apartment buildings, and contemporary rebuilds north of Montana, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our Los Angeles showroom downtown serves the Westside daily. The showroom is at 506 S Spring St. Visit when it suits, or start by sending the plans and we will come back with a number per room.
Every project is photographed room by room with the materials and the detailing listed, so you can see how a job like this is actually put together before you commit to one.
See the bathroom vanities we have built
You can also search every finish we specify and every appliance we design around.
One shop draws, finishes and installs all of it, which is why the closet matches the kitchen and there is one number to call when something needs adjusting.
Book a free 30-minute consultation with a designer who works in Santa Monica every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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