Custom Bathroom Cabinets & Vanities in Melbourne

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Custom Vanities & Bathroom Joinery · Melbourne Wide

Custom Bathroom Cabinets and Vanities in Melbourne

Planning a new bathroom and want a vanity that still looks good in fifteen years — not one that swells, peels or warps after five? Or stuck with cabinetry that’s already failing, or a layout that feels cramped the moment you walk in? In a bathroom, longevity and storage come down to two things: the right material specification, and a vanity designed around your actual space.

That’s what we do. Inline Cabinetry designs, manufactures and installs custom bathroom vanities and joinery across Melbourne — wall-hung and floor-mounted vanities, mirror and shaving cabinets, tallboys and storage joinery. Everything is built in our Bayswater workshop using moisture-rated materials throughout, installed by our own team, and backed by a 7-year warranty. We’ve fitted out hundreds of Melbourne bathrooms across two decades, from compact ensuites to full master suites.

Custom Vanities Bathroom Joinery Melbourne Wide
7-Year warranty on every cabinet we build

7-Years

Manufacturer’s warranty

20 +

Years fitting Melbourne bathrooms

HMR

Moisture-rated throughout

In-house

Design, build & install

The short answer

Custom bathroom vanities in Melbourne typically cost $2,500–$5,500 for a single basin (600–900mm) and $5,000–$9,000 for a twin basin (1500–1800mm) in HMR-board cabinetry with a stone benchtop. The biggest decisions are wall-hung vs floor-mounted, and confirming the cabinetry is HMR-rated (not standard kitchen board). Inline builds locally in Bayswater, installs in-house and warranties every cabinet for 7 years.

Start here

First, what are you actually trying to solve?

Bathrooms are small rooms with big demands. Naming the real problem first makes every later decision easier — here are the four we hear most.

The old vanity has swollen or peeled.

That’s standard kitchen-grade board failing in a wet area. The fix is a higher specification — HMR board with sealed edges — not a more expensive door.

There’s nowhere to put anything.

Drawers instead of doors, a mirror cabinet with hidden power, and a slim tallboy turn dead wall space into real storage.

It feels cramped.

A wall-hung vanity with clear floor beneath makes a small bathroom read noticeably larger — often the single biggest visual win.

It just looks dated.

A new vanity, mirror cabinet and benchtop can transform the room without re-tiling or moving plumbing.

The big decision

Wall-hung or floor-mounted: which suits your bathroom?

The single most consequential choice in a Melbourne bathroom is whether the vanity is wall-hung (clear floor beneath) or floor-mounted (sitting on the tiles with a kickboard). Wall-hung has dominated new builds and renovations for the last five years — but the right answer depends on your bathroom. Here’s how to decide.

Wall-hung vanity

Choose this if: you’re renovating before waterproofing, want a contemporary look, or have a smaller bathroom or ensuite. The floor reads continuous and light flows underneath, so the room feels larger — and you can mop straight under it. Needs concealed plumbing and solid wall fixing (19mm ply backing or a stud), so it’s hard to retrofit to plasterboard alone.

Floor-mounted vanity

Choose this if: you’re retrofitting into an already-tiled bathroom, you have a period or traditional home, or it’s a hard-working family bathroom. It sits on the floor with a kickboard — more forgiving of existing plumbing (an exposed P-trap is fine) and needs no special wall preparation. The trade-off is a kickboard that collects dust and is harder to clean behind.

Best for: contemporary bathrooms, ensuites and small footprints · slightly higher cost

Best for: period homes, retrofits and heavy-use family bathrooms

The one tip that saves money

Decide before waterproofing. Wall-hung is straightforward when the plumbing and wall fixing are planned in early — but expensive and awkward to retrofit once the bathroom is tiled. If your bathroom is already finished, floor-mounted is almost always the sensible call.

What We Make

Bathroom cabinetry, built for moisture and longevity

Bathroom cabinetry takes more sustained punishment than any other joinery in the home — daily humidity, splashing around the basin, steam from the shower, hot water on edges. We design and build for that reality from the first specification. There are three pieces to most bathrooms.

Vanities Feature Image

Vanities

The cabinet that carries the basin, tap and benchtop. Wall-hung or floor-mounted, single basin (600–900mm) or twin basin (1500–1800mm), standard depth 450–500mm (350mm slimline for compact ensuites), with concealed plumbing cutouts and your choice of drawer or door configuration.

MountWall-hung or floorDepth450–500mm

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Mirror & shaving cabinets

Storage behind the bathroom mirror — surface-mounted or recessed into the wall, with soft-close hinges, internal LED lighting, and an integrated power outlet. Single, double, or triple-door, in custom widths to match the vanity below (recommended 330mm above the benchtop).

LightingInternal LED optionMountSurface or recessed

Tallboys and storage joinery Feature Image

Tallboys & storage joinery

The vertical storage that hides everything else — tallboys for towels and toiletries, full-height linen towers combining drawers and shelves, niches for tiled wet areas, toilet-roll cabinetry, hairdryer drawers, and hidden laundry chutes. Often paired with the vanity as a coordinated suite.

IncludesLinen, niches, chutes

Materials & Finishes

How we build cabinetry that survives a wet area

Standard kitchen-grade particleboard fails in bathrooms. We see it constantly in homes we’re renovating — failed cabinetry from previous fitouts where standard board was used and the carcass has swollen, delaminated, or warped within five to seven years. The fix is in the specification, not the install.

Carcass construction

Every Inline bathroom cabinet is built from high moisture resistance (HMR) board — not standard MR board, and not standard particleboard. HMR has a higher resin content, denser construction, and far better swell resistance. We seal every cut edge with edge banding before assembly, including hidden edges — the sealed edge stops water ingress where panels meet. For premium projects we offer a marine-grade ply base panel directly under the basin, the most water-exposed component in any vanity.

Door finishes

Every Inline bathroom cabinet is built from high moisture resistance (HMR) board — not standard MR board, and not standard particleboard. HMR has a higher resin content, denser construction, and far better swell resistance. We seal every cut edge with edge banding before assembly, including hidden edges — the sealed edge stops water ingress where panels meet. For premium projects we offer a marine-grade ply base panel directly under the basin, the most water-exposed component in any vanity.

FinishStrengthsTrade-offsCost
Laminate
(Polytec, Laminex matte)
Most moisture- and fingermark-resistant, wipes clean, lowest cost, fastest to makeLimited to flat-panel doors onlyBaseline
Vinyl wrap
(thermolaminated)
Allows profiled doors (Shaker, Hamptons), seamless edges, lower cost than 2-pacNot recommended near showers — steam lifts edges over 8–10 years; keep to dry zones+15–25%
2-pac
(sprayed polyurethane)
Any colour, any sheen, any profile, repairable, premium lookNeeds adequate ventilation; softer than laminate (can chip); longer lead time+30–50%

Laminate (Polytec, Laminex matte) is the most moisture-resistant choice and wipes clean. 2-pac gives a premium look in any colour where ventilation is adequate. Vinyl wrap is generally not recommended for wet-area cabinetry — steam and humidity lift its edges over 8–10 years — so we keep it to low-moisture areas like linen tallboys away from the shower.

Hardware

Bathroom hardware needs to be corrosion-resistant. Blum soft-close hinges throughout (surface-treated for wet-area exposure, lifetime warranty); stainless steel or solid brass handles that resist daily contact with hand cream, toothpaste, and water; and concealed wall-fixing brackets for wall-hung vanities, rated for a stone benchtop plus basin plus daily use.

For premium projects, we upgrade to:

  • Vauth-Sagel internal storage (pull-out pantries, corner carousels, magic-corner systems)
  • Gollinucci waste sorting and recycling systems
  • Blum Servo-Drive electrically-assisted touch-to-open drawers
  • Blum Aventos lift-up door hardware for overhead cabinets
Approved partners & installers

Blum

Caesarstone

Smartstone

Quantum Quartz

Laminex

Polytec

Vauth-Sagel

Gollinucci

Kethy

Infinity

Janper

Flexi Panel

We can specify and source any of these brands within a project. Our showroom has working examples of most product lines.

Our Process

How we approach a bathroom project

Bathroom cabinetry runs a slightly different timeline to kitchens — typically 8–10 weeks total, with 4–6 weeks of manufacture and 2–3 weeks on-site (longer if waterproofing and tiling are in scope). The short version:

01

Consultation 45–60 minutes, free

Showroom or in-home. Bring your floor plan, photos of the existing bathroom and any product references. We talk through wall-hung vs floor-mounted, materials, dimensions and indicative cost.

02

Design & 3D render 1–2 weeks

Our in-house design team produces detailed plans and a full 3D render, so you can see the vanity and storage before anything is built. We iterate until you’re confident.

03

Contract & check measure 1 week

A Victorian standard major domestic building contract for projects over $10,000, with a 5% deposit cap protected under Victorian law. We measure on-site after your waterproofing is signed off.

04

Cabinet manufacture 4–6 weeks

Every cabinet built specifically for your bathroom at our Bayswater workshop, using HMR board throughout — with no disruption to your home during this stage.

05

Installation & handover 2–3 weeks on-site

We install once tiling is complete: cabinetry fit, stone templating and installation, basin and tap fit-off, then a final walkthrough. We coordinate with your plumber and electrician.

The Inline difference

Design, manufacture and installation are all run by us — no outsourced drafting, no sub-contracted designers. The same person who walks your project at the check measure stays involved through to handover.

Why Inline

Why Melbourne homeowners choose Inline for bathroom cabinetry

Moisture-rated construction

HMR board throughout, sealed edges on every cut, and marine-grade options under the basin. Built to outlast cheaper cabinetry by a decade or more in the same wet-area conditions.

7-year manufacturer’s warranty

Every cabinet is covered for 7 years on workmanship and structural integrity. Blum hardware is separately warranted for life, and stone benchtops carry their own 10–25 year supplier warranty.

Everything in-house

Design, manufacture and installation under one roof — no middlemen, no finger-pointing, one accountable team from first sketch to final fit-off.

Built to Australian standards

Designed and specified to comply with AS 3740 waterproofing and AS/NZS 3000 wet-area electrical zones. We coordinate with your plumber and electrician as part of the project.

Australian-made in Bayswater

Every cabinet is built in our own Melbourne workshop — not imported, not outsourced — for tighter quality control and faster turnaround.

A real showroom you can visit

Come to Bayswater, open the drawers, feel the finishes and see the 3D rendering in action before you commit to anything.

Builders, designers & business owners

Trade and commercial bathroom cabinetry

Builders & renovators

Order flatpack vanities through our Inline Flatpacks service — cut-to-size, instant online quoting, pickup from Bayswater or delivery to your jobsite. Trade and DIY logins are available online.

Business owners

We take on limited commercial joinery — built-in cabinetry and vanities for facilities such as police stations, fire stations, hospitals and schools. We don’t do hospitality fit-outs; for those we’ll refer you to specialists.

Bathrooms we’ve fitted out across Melbourne

Hawthorn

wall-hung walnut twin-basin master ensuite

Brighton

floor-mounted Hamptons vanity, period bathroom

Carlton

compact ensuite, slimline 350mm vanity

Mt Eliza

coastal twin-basin with concealed laundry chute

Frequently Asked

Bathroom cabinet questions, answered

A custom single-basin vanity (600–900mm) typically costs $2,500–$5,500 in HMR-board cabinetry with a stone benchtop, depending on finish and hardware. A twin-basin vanity (1500–1800mm) usually runs $5,000–$9,000. Mirror cabinets and tallboys are quoted separately, and flatpack vanities run 40–60% less than custom equivalents.

Wall-hung suits contemporary bathrooms, ensuites and smaller footprints — it makes the room read larger and is easier to clean under, but needs concealed plumbing and solid wall fixing planned before waterproofing. Floor-mounted suits period homes, heavy-use family bathrooms and retrofits into already-tiled rooms. The full comparison is in the section above.

It matters a lot. MR (moisture resistant) board is rated for kitchen-grade splashing and occasional humidity. HMR (high moisture resistance) is rated for wet-area exposure — sustained humidity, steam and direct water. Bathroom cabinetry built from MR rather than HMR visibly degrades in 5–8 years; HMR holds up for 15–20+ years. Always confirm HMR when comparing bathroom quotes.

Yes — a large part of our bathroom work is exactly this. Many clients have the wet areas (waterproofing, tiling, plumbing) done themselves or by a builder, then come to us for the cabinetry that drops into the prepared space. We measure on-site after your waterproofing is signed off and install once tiling is complete.

For a compact ensuite, a 600–750mm single vanity at a slimline 350mm depth keeps the walkway clear. Standard bathrooms usually take a 750–900mm vanity at 450–500mm depth. Bring your floor plan and we’ll confirm what fits while leaving comfortable clearances.

Engineered stone (Caesarstone, Smartstone, Quantum Quartz) is the most popular — hard-wearing, non-porous and available in many finishes, with its own 10–25 year supplier warranty. We can also specify natural stone or a laminate top for tighter budgets, and we’ll match the choice to your basin and tap.

Yes — mirror and shaving cabinets can include internal LED lighting and an integrated power outlet for razors and toothbrushes, with soft-close hinges throughout. They’re made in custom widths to match the vanity below and can be surface-mounted or recessed into the wall.

Manufacture is typically 4–6 weeks. On-site is 1–2 days for the cabinetry, plus 5–10 working days for stone templating and installation, plus final fit-off (basin and tap). For a vanity-only project in an otherwise complete bathroom, total elapsed time is usually 5–8 weeks from contract to handover.

We handle cabinetry design, manufacture and installation. Plumbing, waterproofing, tiling, electrical and painting are coordinated by you or your builder and integrated into the schedule. If you’d prefer everything under one project manager, see our bathroom renovations service.

Yes. The bathroom is one of the two rooms buyers scrutinise most, and a clean, well-built vanity with smart storage reads as ‘move-in ready’. Quality moisture-rated cabinetry and a stone top are a relatively low-cost, high-return update — and the 7-year warranty transfers confidence to a buyer.

Ready to start?

Book a free design consultation

The fastest way to scope your bathroom cabinetry is a 45–60 minute consultation at our Bayswater showroom. Bring your floor plan, photos of the existing bathroom and any product references you’ve collected. We’ll talk through wall-hung vs floor-mounted, materials, dimensions and indicative cost — and produce a 3D render before you commit.

Inline Cabinetry  ·  Unit 2/28 Sydney Rd, Bayswater VIC 3153  ·  Mon–Fri 9:00am–4:30pm  ·  By appointment  ·  (03) 9131 4402