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Unfinished recessed medicine cabinets

6 years ago

I’m looking for wood or wood-look recessed medicine cabinets with mirrors to put in our kids jack and Jill bath. I’d like to have them be a white color that matches the white cabinets. I’m worried that if I purchase white medicine cabinets that are already painted the color might be off. (Cabinets are a creamy white). Anyone know of a source for unfinished recessed medicine cabinets?

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User
6 years ago
Get the medicine cabinet from your cabinwtry provider. Or do something as a deliberate miatch like a wood or metal.
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User
6 years ago
Why not buy some and paint them to match?
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For size, you can also get customized sizing where cabinets can be ganged together. For example, two 12 inch cabinets ganged together or two 15" ganged together would work where you can add lighting as an option and have interchangeable left or right open doors. It gives you alot of storage over your vanity without looking too wide. And if you want to spend the extra cost, you can have them recessed mounted as well. This will make them look flush with wall and less bulky over any sized vanity. And some of these mirrored medicine cabinets have integrated LED lighting, which can also offer a nightlight with dinner function. So, you will not only have lighting from your main bathroom, but an additional light source. I hope this helps
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Any med cab that is more than 14" wide requires that a carpenter make the studs in the wall "special" like your original house. They simply design the wall supports (studs and headers) to fit around the medicine cabinet. If you look at the triple cabs, you can see that there is no 2" stud between the cabinets. Any wooden cabinet will have a thicker back wall than any metal cabinet, reducing the interior space or forcing the cabinet to protrude further out of the wall to get the same depth. You can chose a cabinet that protrudes out a bit in order to get a deeper, more versatile cabinet, if you do not mind the edge sticking out beyond the wall. I would much rather have that extra depth be usable, not the thickness of a wooden back.
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Ron Natalie
6 years ago
I actually built a medicine cabinet using a Kreg Jig to make the box. I needed one to fit a specific recess in the wall. It's pretty trivial, anybody with a slight amount of woodworking can do it. For the door I just used a framed mirror we got from Lowes (this is what started the project, it had to match the "furniture style" vanity my wife had purchased. I mounted it on drawer slides so the mirror slid to the left to reveal the cabinet.
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Steve J
6 years ago
Interesting idea Ron. We actually bought an unframed mirror and I made a frame for it so we got exactly what we wanted. If you have a specific color of white, you’ll likely have to modify a pre-built or do something custom

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