White Marble Bathroom Vanity Top

White marble is the most requested family for bathrooms with little daylight: it expands the room, gives light back, and over a plain field offers a single gesture in a fine grey or golden vein.

The work in this gallery was prepared for undermount basins. In this type of installation the basin is bonded beneath the top and the edge of the cut-out remains visible afterwards, so that edge is polished separately. A small radius is given to the corners of the cut-out, because stone cracks from a sharp internal corner. For oval basins the template is taken from the basin's own mould; there can be a few millimetres between the catalogue dimension and the production dimension, and that difference turns into visible misalignment on site.

Tap holes are also drilled in the workshop, with a water-cooled core bit. On double-basin tops the spacing between the two cut-outs and the two tap holes is set according to the cabinet bays, and measurements are taken once the cabinets are fitted.

A polished finish shows the vein most clearly. In heavily used bathrooms a honed finish stays looking cared-for longer: a matt surface hides acid etching and water marks.