Woodmark Kitchen & Bath Houston > Bath Remodeling

Restoring existing bathroom vanity cabinets is usually not sensible choice as there are few cabinets involved and likely at 30" high are obsolete. Most bathroom vanity cabinets today are at least 32", many at 34", and some at 36" above your bath floor.

Buildng custom cabinets for one bath plus maybe an added master closet is usually wise. Because first of all these cabinets can usually be built in a few days so that you can avoid waiting for the delivery of purchased factory cabinets. Secondly, custom built cabinets can be built specifically for what is often the remodeling of a small bath. One popular Woodmark custom built vanity cabinet is a seven foot vanity cabinet which allows for two large vanity bowls, each having a vanity cabinet door below, plus three stacks of four drawers each. More than enough cabinet storage for most bathrooms.

The quality of custom built vanity cabinets in Houston or elsewhere can vary as widely as the quality of Houston cabinet maker crews. Some crews are small in number with each member being a highly experienced cabinet maker. Other crews are large so as to be able to complete the large custom homes they generally work on. The individual member's experience on these latter crews can vary widely. With these crews the majority of cabinets in these bathrooms are often built by helpers having little experience. The important question always to ask concerning vanity cabinets is WHO will build the cabinets, how many cabinet makers are involved and what is their individual experience. If you are to obtain quality custom cabinets you must always direct your focus on the details on how they are built.

Whatever the situation these custom built cabinets have the huge advantage of being built to FIT your bath.

The quality of factory cabinets varies as widely as the number of manufacturers building them. And with factory cabinets nothing is truer than the comment “you get what you pay for”. To the untrained eye the difference among factory cabinets at the outset may not be readily apparent. But if you opt to purchase lower priced cabiniets as you live with them and use them you will see that over time these cabinets will not hold up. They will lose their appearance with daily use. And when you sell your home these low cost cabinets will diminsh the value of your entire home.
A much better decision would be to choose custom built cabinets built of plywood--not particleboard--which in flood prone Houston will be in good condition even after most floods. These custom cabinets would be built to hold up under many years of use.

Woodmark’s main cabinetmaker in Houston has 36 years of experience. His father was a lifelong trim carpenter and cabinetmaker. The father of Woodmark’s owner was also a lifelong carpenter and cabinetmaker. The result is as it would seem to be: Woodmark Kitchen and Bath has always emphasized cabinet quality. It builds it vanity cabinets as furniture.

Woodmark job builds all types of custom cabinets: face frame cabinets, full overlay cabinets, cabinets with inset doors and many other cabinet styles. The price of the bath vanity cabinets do not vary substantially from one type or the other.

The vanity cabinet “boxes” are made of ¾” birch plywood. The face frames (the part the doors are hung from) are made of solid poplar or maple—no veneered plywood. Each piece is cut to fit the bath vanity cabinets. The top surface of the vanity cabinet is covered with BC plywood. Cabinet door and drawer faces are made by a door manufacturer, Evans Cabinets and Doors in Brenham , Texas , to specially accommodate the measurements of the created cabinet and are made of birch in a style chosen by you. They are installed to cover almost the entire face of the cabinets leaving in most instances a 1/8” space between door pairs or stacks of drawers. All cabinet doors are installed with an adjustable hidden Blum or equal hinge. The finished cabinet is plumb, level, tight and crisp.

The vanity cabinet “boxes” are made of ¾” wood of a type you select. The face frames are made of solid wood of a type you select—no veneered plywood. Each piece is cut to fit the vanity cabinets. The top surface of the vanity cabinet is covered with BC plywood. Cabinet door and drawer faces are made by a door manufacturer, Evans Cabinets and Doors in Brenham , Texas , to specially accommodate the measurements of the created cabinet and are made of a matching wood in a style chosen by you. They are installed to cover almost the entire face of the vanity cabinets leaving in most instances a 1/8” space between door pairs or drawer stacks. All cabinet doors are installed with an adjustable hidden Blum or equal hinge. The finished vanity cabinet is plumb, level, tight and crisp.

The height of your cabinets can be of your choosing. With job built cabinets there is no additional cost or inconvenience in building any height. The height you prefer is built by the cabinetmaker and cabinet doors are purchased to fit the size of the cabinet openings it is built for. In years past bathroom cabinets have normally had a very low finished height. But in recent years bath vanity cabinets have been raised to at least 32” or 34” and even to 37”, 38” or more above the finished floor. It is entirely up to you.

Cabinet doors are made such that they appear to be one solid piece of wood but in reality include a picture frame with solid wood in center that is allowed to move within the frame to prevent warping.

Storage within vanity cabinet drawers created by Woodmark is optimum. Each drawer in a drawer stack is constructed such that it is stacked one on top of the other with no space in between. Also all drawers have full extension drawer slides such that all contents in the back of each drawer are easily accessible. If you calculate the difference in storage volume between this method and the more common one where each 21” drawer had a divider as much as 2” wide above and below and extended only two-thirds of the way out, you will come up will an increased storage volume of our 24” drawers of almost double the common one. You obtain twice the space for the same size vanity cabinet.

All types of available wood are allowed with generally no difference in price on stained cabinets. We generally use cherry, alder, maple and birch.

Rubber bumpers 1/16” thick are installed on all cabinet drawers and rubber bumpers 1/8” thick are installed on all cabinet doors to reduce noise and damage to door facings.

When raw doors are delivered to the job site they are put inside the home and then stacked flat so as to reduce the risk of moisture from Houston ’s humid climate causing them to warp. We then prime them within a day or two to protect them completely.

Please call us for a free cabinet design for your bathroom!