Quartz Furniture Top and Bathroom Vanity Countertops for Rebecca Partridge

Rebecca Partridge came to us twice within a few weeks, and the two jobs were completely different. The first was a small custom piece for furniture. The second was a much larger bathroom project with four vanity tops and five sinks.

I like projects like this because they show that the amount of stone does not determine how much attention a job deserves. An 8-square-foot furniture top still has to be cut correctly and finished on the right side. Four bathroom vanities bring a different problem: every cabinet has its own width, sink position, wall conditions, and backsplash arrangement. We handled each one as its own piece instead of treating the bathrooms as copies of each other.

Rebecca's first project used Sienna Silver Remnant #52. She needed a quartz top for a piece of furniture, so there was no reason to purchase a full slab for an 8.1-square-foot job. The finished piece was 58 inches long by 20 inches deep with a flat edge. Only the long exposed side needed polishing. We cut the piece to the specified dimensions and prepared it for delivery rather than turning a straightforward furniture-top job into a larger fabrication project than it needed to be.

A good remnant is exactly what I want to use for this kind of work. Rebecca could get a real quartz surface with the look she wanted, and we could use an existing piece of material that was large enough for the dimensions. That first job was also how she got to know our team. A few weeks later, she came back when she was ready to replace the countertops in her bathrooms.

The bathroom project was much larger at approximately 40.4 square feet. Rebecca had four separate vanity tops, and their dimensions were not the same. The fabrication drawing included a 32" × 22.5" single vanity, a 62" × 22.5" double vanity, a 72" × 22.5" single vanity, and a 43" × 22.5" single vanity. That gave us five sink locations across four countertops.

The fabrication drawing also showed where every sink and faucet set had to land and which sides received backsplash. That mattered because the four tops were not interchangeable. The 62-inch vanity needed two sink openings, while the other three had one each. We used our 17" × 13" oval white ceramic sinks for all five openings. The tops received flat edges, and the exposed corners were specified with a 1/4-inch radius.

We used our 17" × 13" oval white ceramic sinks for all five openings. The tops received flat edges, and the exposed corners were specified with a 1/4-inch radius. The drawing reached Revision 3 before fabrication. On a bathroom job like this, I care about more than the overall width. The sink has to sit correctly inside the cabinet below, faucet holes have to work with the fixture layout, and a side that terminates against a wall is handled differently from an exposed end.

The template photos also showed real wall conditions that would never be obvious from four rectangles on a drawing. Some walls had tile beside the vanity. Others had painted drywall and existing mirror conditions. We marked those details directly during templating so the fabrication team knew which sides were exposed and where backsplash pieces had to finish.

Rebecca chose Calacatta Borghini Quartz for the bathroom countertops. It has a white background with larger gray veining, so I wanted the layout decided before we started cutting. The bathroom work fit on one 126" × 63" slab, listed at approximately 55.1 square feet. We laid all four vanity tops and their backsplash pieces over that slab in the fabrication plan. The digital slab layout let us check two things before fabrication: whether all four vanity tops and their backsplash pieces would fit on one slab, and which parts of the Calacatta Borghini pattern would land on each finished piece. The green areas in the layout show the sections assigned to the project. I wanted to settle that before cutting because the 62-inch and 72-inch tops expose much more of the veining than the smaller vanities. This was not just about fitting 40.4 square feet of countertops into a 55.1-square-foot slab. The veins needed to make sense once the individual pieces were separated and installed in different bathrooms.

The 62-inch double vanity had enough surface area for the pattern to move across both sink positions. The 72-inch top gave us an even longer uninterrupted section. The smaller 32-inch and 43-inch vanities needed enough movement to look related to the larger tops without getting an awkward fragment of a vein.

We scheduled the main bathroom work for Monday, August 17. The existing tops had been removed and the cabinets were templated before the new quartz went into place. The job photos show how different the conditions were from one vanity to another. One cabinet sat beside a tiled shower area. Another had wall damage exposed after the previous countertop and backsplash came off. Those conditions are normal in replacement work, but they are exactly why we template the actual cabinets instead of fabricating from nominal vanity sizes.

The Calacatta Borghini pieces were installed over the existing white cabinetry. Each sink opening had been fabricated for our oval ceramic sinks, and the faucet drilling followed the layout for the individual vanity. The finished quartz works well with these bathrooms because the color change is subtle but the pattern is much stronger. Rebecca kept the white cabinets and light walls, so the gray veining gives the vanity more definition without making the room darker. The 62-inch double vanity is a good example. The quartz now runs continuously across both sink positions, and the veining gives that long surface some movement instead of leaving it as a plain white rectangle.

We returned on Tuesday, August 18 to finish the backsplash work. The schedule specifically marks this visit as “finish B/S.” The backsplash pieces were cut from the same Calacatta Borghini material, so the vanity tops and the short wall sections read as one surface.

This stage also had to account for what was already on the walls. The bathrooms had mirrors, outlets, switches, tile transitions, and different side-wall conditions. Some vanities needed backsplash coverage along more than one wall, which is why the template notes identified the wall backsplash locations before fabrication. The backsplash may be a much smaller piece of stone than the countertop, but it can make the installation look wrong very quickly if the length or wall relationship is off. I want those pieces fitted to the actual countertop and wall conditions, especially in an existing bathroom where the walls are rarely perfectly square.

Rebecca first came to us for one small custom quartz piece. By the end of the second project, we had also replaced the countertops across four bathroom vanities with approximately 40.4 square feet of Calacatta Borghini Quartz and five new oval ceramic sinks. The new counters did not require her to replace the existing white cabinetry. The quartz changed the part of each vanity that people see and use every day, while the gray veining added enough contrast to separate the countertops from the cabinets below. Matching backsplash pieces finished the transition to the existing walls and mirrors.

Rebecca later left us a five-star Google review:

“Wonderful experience!  The team excelled at communication and provided a high quality product.  I’ve used them twice, one to procure a beautiful quartz slab to top a piece of furniture and again to replace all my bathroom countertops.  They were fast and affordable, I am a very happy customer!”

The part I like most is that she came back. The first job was one 58-by-20-inch piece cut from a remnant. The second involved four different vanities, five sinks, a full slab layout, and backsplash work in existing bathrooms. They were very different projects, but the standard should be the same on both. The piece has to fit, the finish has to make sense for where it is going, and the customer should feel comfortable calling us again when the next project comes up.