Beige Marble Bathroom Vanity Top

Beige marble is the family that works most easily in front of wall cladding with pronounced veining. In the bathroom shown here the back wall is clad in green veined marble; had the vanity top been a stone of the same character, the two surfaces would have competed. A calm, warm beige ground instead leaves the wall in front.

The bowl is produced from the top's own stone, and the top sits in one piece on a wall-hung unit. With a wall-hung unit, setting up the support correctly is critical: the weight of the stone must transfer to the load-bearing profile in the wall, not to the cabinet carcass. Where a thicker appearance is wanted at the front edge we bond a strip of the same stone beneath the slab to form a laminated edge, so the visible thickness increases without adding weight.

The beige family sits well with wood and brass. In this bathroom a brass-framed mirror and brass tapware are used; the beige ground carries that warm metal without the hardness a white top would bring. For heavily used bathrooms we recommend a honed finish: a matt surface hides water marks and local etching beyond what the eye can distinguish.