Well, you do not really need a flush cab.if you can match the paint. This is what I did because of our tile floor trim...it is really inconspicuous. There is a thin strip of wood set back inline with front face frame of the cab; it shows up best on the second picture. With the cabinet your mom picked out, I would set it back slightly behind the front face frame.

Thanks for the nice work-around, rantontoo. We're (my brother) is concerned that anything above and beyond a basic installation might tax the skills of the guy he's having do the work. I'm glad it's my brother and not I who will need to keep peeking over this guy's shoulder!

I ordered mine through Lowe's but they are also free standing like pieces of furniture. I don't think you will find one like you want that is a built in. Are you concerned about having to paint the wall or something from the vanity removal? What about the tile floor does it extend under the current vanity? That was our problems once the old vanity was removed there was no tile under it just concrete. So we replaced all the tile floors and put in a free standing vanity.

This is one of them it's actually 3 parts that can be put together in various ways.

The other one is matching but is a single sink smaller size.

Quality is excellent. Shipping was excellent and extremely well packaged.

Hello and thanks, Raven. (I'm beating the Texas heat big-time this week...may have forgotten to set the sprinklers before we left, though. :/ ) We need the vanity flush-left because the toilet is just to the right of the vanity -- not a lot of wiggle room there, so don't want to change the footprint. The walls will be repainted anyway. Floor tile will also be redone. Although the current tile butts up against the vanity, we'll just have the entire floor tiled before the vanity goes in (I think -- I'll point all of this out to my brother, and he'll make the final call.).

ETA: What brand and model did you get from Lowes? Very nice!

I had the exact same problem. I picked out the vanity I wanted but did not think about the fact that it wasn't made to sit flush against the wall. I spent a month looking for something else, but in the end we decided to go with something shorter and have it not be against the wall. But we were going from 72" to 60" which is probably not workable in your mom's situation.

I did find a lot of vanities that did have flat sides and could work in a corner, if you are willing to have the countertop fabricated. They just need to not have any trim detail on the top or bottom like the one you picked out does. I would just look at the ones without the pre-made tops. Because the pre-made top will still leave you with a slight gap because of the countertop overhang.

This is an example: Avanity Modero which is sold everywhere, not just at Lowe's. The cabinet we ended up buying is an Avanity Madison which won't work for you, but I assume it is of similar quality. We are pretty happy with it. The drawers and doors have soft close but I do feel like the glides in my Ikea kitchen drawers are better quality. It is very pretty and I wanted a stained wood so I am really happy with our choice. If I had been willing to go with a painted finish, I think we might have stuck with the 72" Modero.

Brand is

Silkroad Exclusive

There's a great selection of vanities by that company. I had a hard time deciding. I actually found them online at another store but I found out Lowe's could get it for me also. Because Lowe's was working with us on the flood repairs and giving us a great discount on everything I asked if they would price match it and give us our discount. They did it! I can't tell you how impressed we were with the delivery and packaging of the vanities. We have been very pleased with them.

Why not just get a slightly smaller free standing vanity. It is absolutely the easiest way to go. No cutting or matching walls etc. Just have a plumber to hook up with your existing plumbing that's it. That was the beauty of the ones I got.

I have this actual one from Lowe's in one of the bathrooms. It matches the larger double sink one. Both have travertine tops with integrated sinks. Took my plumber about 30 minutes to hook up the plumbing and install the faucet. It took much longer to get them out of the package.

Thanks to all! After much last minute running around (and playing beat the clock in sweltering heat at the vanity top place), it all finally came together. We went with the Palencia vanity from Lowes (plywood-build, so the quality was improved over the Goslin line from Diamond) -- we had to give up on having top drawers: compromise is a must in situations like this!

Their in-stock vanity tops were of terrible quality, and the wonderfully helpful Lowes rep not only corroborated this, he steered us towards Builders Surplus in Santa Ana (aisles upon aisles of vanities and tops -- this is where we played beat the clock!): open for another hour by the time we got down there, cash/check/debit only, all sales final, etc. Purchased a marble top that we're delighted with:

Thanks again for everyone's help -- could not have made my way through this without you!

Just thought I'd write the final chapter to this story by posting a few pictures of the finished bathroom. Mom is so happy with the way everything turned out -- absolute night-and-day difference:

This is a shot of the bathtub area, which was done in the same tile as the beige stuff around the vanity/sink:

Unfortunately, and inexplicably, my brother convinced her to keep the beige/tan brown toilet. Ugh, after all that running all over town I did for a week, trying to get everything color-coordinated! :p Thankfully, it's somewhat hidden:

My brother never passed on to the installer/contractor instructions to flush the cabinet left, which meant installing the marble top a bit off-center. So, the gap (between vanity and wall) that I'd tried so hard to avoid ended up there anyway. Oh, well.

It's fine. But had I known at the end of the day that the gap wouldn't have ended bugging my mom, I would've stuck with our original choice (Lowes Allen+Roth) -- it was a more well-constructed piece, and it came with the additional top drawers.

However, happy ending (and hex tile floors to boot!).

Thanks again, everyone.