Remodel- will 48" vanity work? What about the old medicine cabinet
clairemulloo
5 years ago
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Medicine cabinet over vanity - recessed or surface mount?
Comments (4)If you wanted a deeper cabinet, you could recess and have some sticking out ;) too. A third option! I've had recessed in old bathroom and it was fine. I now have a new surface mounted one that just got put up this friday. I have an exterior wall in cold Iowa. It was made for me by my fab carpenter to go with an old Robern medicine cabinet mirror door I've had for 20 years (got it for free in an alley outside a design shop-she said "take it"). With the recessed and want to change the set in the future, you'd have to do major wall repair or find a cabinet that fits. But wouldn't that be unlikely? If I didn't like the protrusion, then recessed is what I'd do....See MoreHelp! Medicine Cabinet Crisis!
Comments (2)You could get 3 16" cabinets and mount the one on the left with the hinge on the right and the one on the right with the hinge on the left. That'll give you a tri view effect. Also, can you get filler strips in the color of your vanity? If you can, you can frame around the medicine cabinet mirrors with the filler strips....See MoreBathroom mirror/medicine cabinet
Comments (5)Babka, my MIL had one of those types of medicine cabinets. I liked it, but hubby doesn't. What he is envisioning: 2 triangular corner mounted medicine cabinets, with the door being a mirror. Between the two, a mirror, either built into a frame or just mounted on the wall with a frame. The wood needs to match the vanity's wood. I've linked a sample of a corner medicine cabinet with a mirror. Picture one of those in two corners of the alcove, with a mirror in between; Donna Here is a link that might be useful: Corner mounted medicine cabinet...See MoreCan we talk about Surface Mounted Medicine Cabinets?
Comments (7)I think, even though it is a weight bearing wall it can be recessed so long as wiring doesn't interfere. You need to frame it in with a header, much like a window in an outer wall. And depending on the wiring situation, if it isn't right across the centre, it maybe could be moved above or below the mirror opening. Just a thought. We are just re-doing our bathroom and had a surface mounted 36 inch medicine cabinet until now. We are gutted to the studs and found the vanity wall to be a 6 inch wall because the stack is in that wall. So our contractor just cut into the 2 x 6's part way (about 4 inches) and framed it In with a 2 x 4 header and frame. We just bought a 40 inch Kohler tri view cabinet. It has soft close doors and seems like a very nice one but it was not cheap. We didn't find many 40 inch tri view ones so chose to pay for the Kohler brand. It does have mirror inside and out and a sliding magnifying mirror inside the centre door, which might come in handy since the mirror will be farther away now with being inset....See Moreclairemulloo
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