Bathroom vanity cabinets in Lynn, MA live in the wettest, tightest room in the house, so Custom Cabinets Lynn prices the fit before the finish. A catalog unit set, leveled and plumbed back in runs $400 to $2,200. A vanity built to your opening runs $1,500 to $6,500 complete. Our cabinet cost guide splits that into the unit, the labor and the removal, so you can see which line a quote has left out.
We ask for two measurements before anything else. One is the width between your walls down at the floor. The other is the width up at the counter line. In a bathroom built before 1940 those two numbers are rarely the same, and the gap between them decides whether a catalog box fits at all.
The next thing we ask is where the drain pipe leaves the wall. That height was set when the house was plumbed, and nothing since has moved it. So a bank of drawers has to be cut around the drain instead of ordered in a standard size.
Most of what you pay us for in this room is fitting, not cabinetry. Our installation labor on its own runs $100 to $1,000. The top of that range is a wall that leans or a floor that has settled toward the tub.
Where the cabinetry is going
A catalog unit set into an old opening
We fit more catalog units in this city than built ones. A $300 to $3,000 unit that happens to suit your opening is money you should keep. What you pay us for is the part a factory cannot do. We trim the side panel to a wall that leans, shim the base level across tile that does not run flat, and cut the back for pipes nobody at a factory could have guessed at.
A vanity built to the opening you actually have
We build to your opening where the room is an awkward width, where a radiator eats one end, or where the wall will not take a square box. Your cabinet alone runs $500 to $3,000 and our fitting adds $500 to $1,000. A Rev-A-Shelf tilt-out tray turns the dead panel in front of your sink into the one shelf in the room that sits at hand.
A floating vanity hung off the wall
Your floating vanity hangs everything on the wall behind it, and plaster over wood lath holds nothing. We open that wall and set solid wood blocking across the studs before anything gets hung. A wall-hung unit that lets go takes the plaster and the water lines down with it.
Refinishing the unit you already have
We refinish instead of replacing where the box is sound and the old unit was tiled in. At $400 to $2,000, refinishing costs about what a straight catalog swap does at $400 to $2,200. Benjamin Moore ADVANCE brushes out smooth like an oil paint and cleans up with water. It wants 16 hours between coats, so your doors stay off longer than you would expect.
How we fit it to your room
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We take your width three times, not once
We measure at the floor, at the counter line and at the back wall. Those three numbers disagree in most pre-1940 bathrooms, and your cabinet has to clear the smallest one.
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We find your drain and your shutoffs before quoting
We write down the height of the drain and both shutoff valves. A drawer bank cut around a high drain is a different cabinet from one cut around a low drain, and the price follows the cut.
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We look at what your floor is doing under the old unit
We pull the toe kick and check the floor at the front of the base. A slow supply leak wets that spot first, and a new vanity we set on a soft floor moves inside a year.
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We level off the high point and trim to the wall
We shim your base off the highest tile rather than the lowest. Then we trim the end panel to the wall instead of filling behind it, so the counter line reads straight from the doorway.
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We put your plumbing back and watch it run
We reconnect the drain and the supplies, run both taps and stand there watching the joints before we pack up. A damp patch found a week later has been wetting your new base for a week.
What a bathroom does to a cabinet
Water is the only failure that really counts here
A particleboard base takes water in at its cut edges, swells, and never dries back to where it was. The three places it gets in are the drain joint, the shutoff behind the drawers and the floor at the front of the toe kick. Replacing a base that has gone runs $400 to $1,400, which is most of what a catalog unit costs in the first place.
A vanity swap needs no permit until the plumbing moves
Setting a new vanity onto the existing drain and supplies counts as an ordinary repair, so no building permit is needed. Moving the sink to another wall is a different job. That one change separates a morning's work from a filed one, and you should know which of the two you are buying.
The drawer beside the sink works harder than any door in the house
That drawer gets opened more times a day than anything else you own. So ask what your slides are rated for. We fit Blum soft-close slides rated for 75 lb, and a good slide is tested through 25,000 opens and closes, which is about twenty years of daily use.
Salt air comes in through the window and lands on the hardware
Out on the Swampscott, Nahant and Marblehead side, salt air comes in through open windows and settles on hinges and drawer slides. Plated steel starts to rust two to four years later, long after anyone connects it to the install. Blum makes a corrosion-resistant finish for its hinges and slides, and Emtek's solid brass ages instead of wearing through. Both cost you little at the order stage.
What the drawing has to say
| Catalog vanity, supplied and installed | $400 to $2,200 |
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| Custom vanity, complete | $1,500 to $6,500 |
| Installation labor alone | $100 to $1,000 |
| Removing and disposing of the old unit | $150 to $500 |
| Replacing a water-damaged base | $400 to $1,400 |
| Door and drawer open-and-close test | 25,000 cycles |
Replacing a bathroom vanity in Lynn runs $400 to $2,200 with the unit included. A built-to-fit custom vanity runs $1,500 to $6,500 complete. What moves the number is the width, whether the top and sink come with it, and how the old one comes out.
| What the job is | Typical range | Unit |
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| Vanity replacement, catalog unit and installationA stock or semi-stock unit set, leveled, plumbed back in and scribed to the wall. The most common bathroom cabinet job by a wide margin. | $400 – $2,200 | installed |
| The vanity unit alone, catalogUnit only. Whether a top and a sink are included is the single biggest reason two quotes for the same width look different. | $300 – $3,000 | per unit |
| Installation labor alone, unit suppliedSetting, leveling and scribing. The top of that range is a wall that is out of plumb or a floor that has settled, which in an older Lynn bathroom is the usual case. | $100 – $1,000 | per vanity |
| Custom vanity, the cabinet aloneBuilt to the opening rather than to the nearest catalog width. The reason to do it is almost always an awkward width, a radiator, or a wall that will not take a square box. | $500 – $3,000 | per unit |
| Custom vanity, installation laborHigher than a catalog fit because the unit is set to the room rather than the room worked around the unit. | $500 – $1,000 | per vanity |
| Custom vanity, completeCabinet, finish and fitting together. The top of this range carries a hardwood face, drawer banks around the trap and a moisture-resistant core. | $1,500 – $6,500 | installed |
| Removing and disposing of the old vanityCutting the old top free, pulling the base and taking it away. Costs more where the unit was tiled or floated into the wall. | $150 – $500 | per vanity |
| Refinishing an existing vanity instead of replacing itDoors and fronts off, degreased, primed and sprayed, then rehung. Worth doing where the box is sound and the finish is the only thing that has failed. | $400 – $2,000 | installed |
Want yours measured properly?
We come out, measure the opening at three heights and check how far off square your walls sit, then put a written number on it before anything is ordered.
Questions we get asked
How much does a new bathroom vanity cost in Lynn?
$400 to $2,200 for a catalog unit supplied and fitted, and $1,500 to $6,500 for one built to your opening. Your unit on its own is $300 to $3,000. So the biggest reason two quotes for the same width look different is whether the top and the sink are inside the number.
Why would a bathroom need a built vanity when the kitchen did not?
Three walls, and no way around them. A bathroom from this era is a narrow room with fixtures on three sides, so you have one width to work with. Stock cabinets jump in three-inch steps. When the nearest size leaves you two dead inches, the choice is a filler strip or a box built to your number.
Can I keep my existing top and sink?
Sometimes, and it is worth asking, because pulling the old unit out runs $150 to $500 on its own. A top that was tiled in or glued to the wall rarely comes off in one piece. One sitting square on a base usually does.
How long is my bathroom out of use?
Most of one day for a straight catalog swap, and you have the room back that evening. Refinishing takes longer. The paint wants 16 hours between coats and 3 to 5 days before anything goes back on a shelf, and it is not fully hard for 30 days.
Will a floating vanity hold on a plaster wall?
Yes, once there is solid wood behind it. Plaster over lath carries no weight on its own, so we open the wall and run blocking across your studs first. That is why a wall-hung unit costs more to fit than one standing on the floor.
Who builds custom bathroom vanities near me in Lynn?
Custom Cabinets Lynn builds and fits vanities across Lynn and the North Shore. We take your opening at the floor and again at the counter line before quoting, because in a house built around 1946 those two numbers are almost never the same.
No one wants to pay for a new vanity and watch the bottom swell the first time the drain drips. We build the box from plywood, trim it to your wall by hand, and stand there running the taps before we leave. We would rather set a $600 unit properly than sell you a $4,000 one that stands half an inch off the wall.
If it is your walls rather than your cabinet causing the trouble, cabinets for out-of-square walls covers how we fit a run to what is really there. Cabinet painting is the page to read if the box is sound and the color is the problem, and everything we handle lists the rest.