CUSTOM BATHROOMS

IN BRIGHTON

When the room is odd, the joinery, stone and glass get made to the room — not the other way around.

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what we mean by

CUSTOM

Most bathrooms are assembled from stock parts: a 900mm vanity, an off-the-shelf screen, a niche sized to whatever tile turns up. A custom bathroom reverses the order. The room is measured first, the falls and joint lines are set, and then the joinery, stone and glass are made to those numbers.

It earns its place in Brighton houses where nothing is square — older walls that bow, added-on wet areas carrying two or three floor levels, and wide bayside windows that leave awkward wall lengths either side. If your room is close to standard, a straightforward bathroom renovation will usually serve you better. Custom is worth the extra drawing time when the constraint is real.

MADE, NOT BOUGHT

THE FOUR ELEMENTS WE HAVE FABRICATED TO SIZE

JOINERY

CARCASS TO WALL LENGTH · SOFT-CLOSE HARDWARE · FACE SET TO THE TILE JOINT

STONE TOPS

TEMPLATED ON SITE AFTER TILING · 20MM OR MITRED TO A THICKER EDGE · UNDERMOUNT OR INTEGRATED BASIN

GLASS & NICHES

SCREENS MEASURED AFTER TILING · TOUGHENED PANELS · RECESSES SET TO THE TILE MODULE AND FALLING TO THE ROOM

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Cabinet faces, drawer lines and mirror edges are the parts you see every morning. They are also the parts that show a five millimetre error.

built for the

WALL IT SITS ON

A made-to-measure unit lets us run a vanity the full length of a wall, hold a consistent shadow line to the floor, and keep drawers clear of the trap and the waste. Where a stock cabinet would leave a 70mm filler strip beside the door architrave, a fabricated one simply stops where the wall stops.

The same logic carries through the room: mirror cabinets recessed into the stud line, a bench seat that matches the shower fall, and toe kicks cut to the finished floor rather than the slab. Where you only need the cabinetry itself replaced, see vanities and cabinetry; where the tile layout drives the joinery dimensions, bathroom tiling covers the setting-out side.

THE STOCK ROUTE

SHORTER LEAD TIMES · FIXED SIZES · FILLERS AND PACKERS

Products are ordered early, so trades can be booked tighter and the build moves quickly. The trade-off is tolerance: the room is adjusted to suit the product, and gaps are closed with fillers, silicone and packers. For a compact, regular room this is often the sensible answer — see small bathroom renovations.

THE CUSTOM ROUTE

MEASURED TWICE · FABRICATED TO SIZE · LONGER LEAD TIMES

Nothing is ordered until the room is stripped and the real dimensions are known, so the fit is exact and the details line up. In return you carry longer fabrication windows and less flexibility to change your mind late. Cost direction moves with the number of made items rather than the room size — the thinking behind that is set out in bathroom renovation costs.

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how a custom room

COMES TOGETHER

01 — MEASURE AND DRAW. The existing room is surveyed, including out-of-square walls and floor levels, and a layout is drawn against those figures. This overlaps with bathroom design and planning.

02 — SELECT, THEN FIX SIZES. Tile format, stone and tapware are chosen before demolition, because each one changes joint width, wall build-up and cabinet depth.

03 — STRIP AND RE-MEASURE. Once the room is back to frame, dimensions are checked again and shop drawings are released for fabrication.

04 — ROUGH-IN AND WATERPROOF. Services are set to the drawn positions, falls are formed and the room is sealed. Details are covered under bathroom waterproofing.

05 — TILE, TEMPLATE, INSTALL. Tiling comes first, then stone and glass are templated to the finished surfaces and installed with the joinery. The general staging is described on our process.

QUESTIONS BEFORE WE DRAW

Does custom mean everything is made?

No. Most rooms mix made and bought. Tapware, toilets and baths are usually specified from range; joinery, stone, screens and niches are the parts worth fabricating.

When do sizes get locked in?

After strip-out and rough-in, not before. Ordering made items off pre-demolition measurements is the most common way a custom room goes wrong.

Can a period room take custom work?

Often it suits them best, because skirting heights, architraves and window reveals rarely match modern module sizes. Profiles can be matched rather than approximated.

Is this only for main bathrooms?

No. Narrow ensuites and laundries benefit most from made-to-size joinery. See ensuite renovations, laundry renovations or shower renovations if only one zone is in scope, and the bathroom planning checklist before you start.

TELL US WHAT WON'T FIT

Send through the room and the problem — the wall that bows, the door that clashes, the length that no stock unit covers. The enquiry form asks for your name, email, phone, suburb, renovation type, budget range, timeframe and project details, and is stored privately in this website.

Related pages: luxury bathroom renovations, modern bathroom renovations, design references and service areas across Bayside.

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Custom Bathrooms · Brighton and nearby Bayside suburbs · made-to-measure joinery, stone, glass and recesses set out to the finished room.