Vanity & Storage
Handis vanity and storage updates is the bathroom-carpentry trade that closes the storage gap in a finished bathroom — from a $250 surface-mount medicine cabinet hung over an existing vanity to a $12,000 floor-to-ceiling custom linen built-in with painted shaker doors and adjustable interior shelving. The vanity that sits two inches too low for anyone in the household over five-foot-eight. The single-sink master bath where two people brush their teeth at the same sink every morning. The 1990s flat-front medicine cabinet that everyone in the house has stopped opening because the mirror is fogged from the inside. The narrow wall between the toilet and the tub that has held a stack of folded towels on the floor for eight years because nobody ever built shelves there. Five sub-services cover the real storage updates honestly — vanity replacement, double vanity upgrade, medicine cabinet install, bathroom shelving and storage, and linen cabinet built-in — with every in-wall plumbing supply, drain reroute, or new rough-in routed to a licensed Washington L&I plumber on a coordinated subcontract.
Services
What Do Handis Vanity & Storage Updates Cover?
Vanity and storage is the bathroom-carpentry trade that closes the storage gap in a finished bathroom — every cabinet, mirror, shelf, niche, and built-in that holds the room's stuff. Five sub-services from $250 to $12,000, each with its own scope, its own price floor, and its own plumber-handoff line. Handis runs the carpentry end-to-end — demo, scribe, plumb-to-wall, level, cabinet and countertop install, mirror and medicine cabinet hang, shelving build, and finish carpentry. The regulated work — anything inside a wall on a supply or drain line, any new drain rough-in for a second sink, any new electrical for a recessed-cabinet hardwired light — routes to a licensed Washington L&I plumber or electrician as a coordinated subcontract. We name the sub on the quote so you see Handis scope and licensed-trade scope line by line.
Vanity Replacement
Same-footprint vanity swap — remove the old vanity and top, set the new cabinet, scribe to the wall, plumb level, install the new countertop and sink, hang the new mirror or medicine cabinet, and re-caulk the wet-zone joints. The licensed Washington L&I plumber handles the supply and drain reconnect (or any off-set rerough if the new sink does not line up with the old rough-in). Single-sink updates from a 24-inch builder vanity to a 36 or 48-inch shaker-front cabinet in one to two days. From $900 plus the plumber's separate invoice on their scope.
Vanity Replacement — same-footprint swap, in-wall plumbing subbed to a licensed plumber
Double Vanity Upgrade
Expansion from a single-sink vanity to a 60, 66, or 72-inch double vanity with two sinks, two mirrors, and (usually) two sconces. The licensed Washington L&I plumber adds the second drain rough-in and the second hot-and-cold supply, which is the larger plumbing scope on this hub. Handis sets the new cabinet, scribes to the walls on both ends, installs the countertop with two undermount or drop-in sinks, hangs two mirrors and centers two sconces. Master bathroom remodels and primary-bath upgrades. From $2,500 plus the plumber's separate invoice on the rough-in scope.
Double Vanity Upgrade — second-sink rough-in subbed to a licensed plumber
Medicine Cabinet Install
New medicine cabinet over the vanity in three variants — surface-mount on the wall (the simple swap of a flat mirror for a mirrored cabinet, no wall cutting), recessed into the wall cavity between two studs (the framed-in install that sits flush with the drywall for the built-in look), and recessed with hardwired LED light bar (which adds a licensed electrician on the new circuit if one is not already there). We cut the drywall, frame the box into the cavity, set the cabinet plumb and level, and patch the surrounding drywall back in. From $250 surface-mount to $700 recessed with a quality cabinet.
Medicine Cabinet Install — surface-mount, recessed, or recessed with hardwired light
Bathroom Shelving & Storage
The full storage build inside the bathroom that is not the vanity itself — open shelves on the wall above the toilet, floating shelves on a tile or painted wall, a recessed shower niche cut into the wet wall during a tile project, a full-height storage tower in the corner between the vanity and the wall, and the floor cabinet that closes the gap to the door jamb. Carpentry-led work that gets stuff off the floor and the countertop. From $2,500 for a multi-shelf install to $12,000 for a full custom storage build with painted shaker faces.
Bathroom Shelving & Storage — open shelves, floating shelves, niches, storage towers
Linen Cabinet Built-In
Full-height linen cabinet built into the bathroom — in-room set against a flat wall, or framed into an alcove or a closet doorway that you want converted to a built-in linen tower. Paint-grade poplar or MDF-Shaker face, or stain-grade hardwood (oak, maple, walnut) with adjustable interior shelving and a hamper drawer or pull-out on the bottom. The work that turns the dead floor space next to the vanity into the bathroom's only real linen storage. From $900 for a stock-cabinet linen install to $2,800 for a fully custom built-in.
Linen Cabinet Built-In — in-room or alcove, paint-grade or stain-grade
Vanity & Storage Pricing
Final pricing depends on cabinet width, top material, mirror and accessory choices, and whether any in-wall plumbing rerough is in scope. Each child page lists detailed pricing for that sub-service. Licensed-plumber and licensed-electrician fees pass through transparently with the line item named on the quote. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the bathroom, the storage gap, and what you have in mind — we will quote the whole project, plumber coordination included.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Vanity & Storage
Most vanity and storage projects we are asked to redo were installed without scribing the cabinet to the actual wall. A new vanity set against a wall that is a quarter-inch out of plumb sits with a visible gap at one end and reads as off the moment a homeowner walks back in. A medicine cabinet hung on a wall plug instead of into a stud loosens within a year and tilts forward. A linen built-in sized for the wall the cabinet guy measured but never confirmed shows a tapered shim line on one side because the corner of the bathroom is not actually 90 degrees. Bathroom walls are almost never plumb, almost never square, and almost never level — every cabinet, every shelf, every built-in has to be scribed to what the wall actually is, not what the floor plan says it should be. After enough vanity sets, every common failure mode has a fix in the truck.
Scribed to the actual wall, plumbed and leveled before the top goes on
Bathroom walls are almost never plumb, almost never square, and almost never level. We scribe every cabinet end panel to the actual wall with a compass-scribe transfer and a belt sander, shim the toe-kick to level, and plumb the cabinet face before any top goes on. The vanity sits flush against the wall the entire run, the top sits flat, the doors hang square. No tapered shim line, no caulk fill at a gap, no door rubbing at the strike side six months later.
Honest plumber handoff — named line by line on the quote
In-wall supply lines, drain rough-in, off-set drain reroute (when the new sink does not align with the old rough), and second-sink rough-in for a double vanity all route to a licensed Washington L&I plumber on a coordinated subcontract. Handis runs the carpentry and the project schedule; the plumber owns their scope, their permit when applicable, and their invoice. You see Handis scope and licensed-trade scope line by line on the quote before any work starts.
Recessed cabinets framed into the cavity — drywall patched seamless
A recessed medicine cabinet is not a screwdriver job. We locate the studs, cut a clean opening between them, build a wood box from 1x6 stock that is sized to the cabinet plus a 1/8-inch reveal on every edge, set the box plumb in the wall, mount the cabinet inside the box, and patch the drywall back in with three-coat mud and a feather sand. The cabinet sits flush with the drywall on every side and the cut is invisible after paint.
Stud-anchored heavy cabinets, rated toggles only where the stud does not land
Every heavy storage piece — full-height linen cabinet, full storage tower, loaded shelf — anchors into the stud whenever the stud is behind the cabinet. Where the stud does not line up with the cabinet's hang rail, we use rated heavy-duty toggles (Toggler Snaptoggle 75-lb minimum) sized to the cabinet's loaded weight. Never the wall plugs that come in the cabinet box — they are sized for light-duty hanging and pull out of drywall under loaded shelves within a year.
Real protection of the rest of the house during demo and install
Plastic-zip floor-to-ceiling at the bathroom doorway during demo, runners down every hallway the crew walks, a negative-air HEPA scrubber if any tile cutting is in scope, daily vacuum and trash-out. The owner of the home does not live with a job-site for the duration. No drywall dust on the bedroom carpet five rooms away.
Insured, background-checked, one-year project warranty
Handis carries general liability and workers' compensation; every technician has cleared a background screening before the first job. The one-year project warranty covers our scope — cabinet and shelving install, countertop install, scribe and plumb, mirror and medicine cabinet hang, finish carpentry. If a cabinet door sags out of square, a shelf bracket loosens, a mirror hanger comes loose, or a scribed end panel pulls away from the wall within the year, we come back and fix it at no extra charge. The licensed-sub portion (plumbing and electrical) carries its own L&I-trade warranty, also named on the quote.
Estimate
Tell us the bathroom (master, guest, hall, powder, rental), the storage update you want (single vanity swap, double vanity, medicine cabinet, shelving, linen built-in, or a combination), the rough cabinet or vanity width, and any known constraints — a small powder room, an out-of-square corner, an existing tile floor you want to preserve. We send a clear estimate with the licensed-plumber portion called out separately when applicable.
What Our Customers Say
Recent vanity and storage update reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
Master bath double vanity upgrade. Took our single-sink 36-inch vanity out, swapped in a 66-inch shaker-front double with two undermount sinks and a quartz top. The plumber sub came in for half a day to add the second drain and the second hot-and-cold; Handis did the rest. Two days total. No more racing for the sink at 7 a.m.
Recessed medicine cabinet in our 1962 Bellevue split-level. Old surface-mount mirror was 18 inches deep into the room. The tech cut the drywall, framed the cabinet into the stud cavity, patched and feathered the drywall on every edge. After paint you cannot see the cut. Cabinet sits flush with the wall, the room reads bigger.
Full-height linen built-in next to the vanity in our 1992 Issaquah guest bath. Custom paint-grade with shaker doors, adjustable shelves, and a hamper pull-out on the bottom. The corner of the bathroom was about 5 degrees out of square — they scribed the end panels and you cannot see a single shim line. Looks like the bathroom was built around the cabinet.
We just wanted to swap the builder vanity for something nicer. Handis took the old 30-inch cabinet out, set a 36-inch shaker-front with a quartz top, coordinated the plumber for the supply and drain reconnect (which had to move two inches to line up with the new sink). One and a half days, came in at the quoted number, looks like a different bathroom.
Floating shelves above the toilet plus a full storage tower in the dead corner between the vanity and the tub. Handis anchored everything into the studs, used rated toggles where the studs did not line up, and the finish carpentry on the tower matches the existing vanity exactly. Got every towel and every basket off the floor in a half day.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis vanity and storage updates — pricing, scope, what stays in-house, and what routes to a licensed Washington L&I plumber.