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Left Offset Bathroom Vanity

A friend has been remodeling her master bathroom, and she ran into multiple features in her house that greatly affected her design choices. One of the major obstacles was buying a vanity to fit into her bathroom space with the design features that she wanted and needed. I helped her out by building a 54″ custom bathroom vanity with the offset sink on the left. The vanity cabinet boasts a large under the sink cabinet space and six spacious drawers on the right side. I have build plans for this left offset bathroom vanity for you.

My friend needed the vanity to be a shallow 18″ deep, but the build plans are for a standard 21″ deep vanity.

The deep drawers give her tons of space to store cosmetic supplies. I love the black pulls she used too, you can see them here.

 

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Master Bathroom Reno week 4 – Jeffrey Court All-Star Challenge

We are in week 4 of the Jeffrey Court All-star Challenge hosted by Jeffrey Court along with Behr Paint and Frog Tape. This week I tackled plumbing, accent tiling and paint.

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Some things don’t go as planned…

Oh my, week 4 did not go as smoothly as planned. 🙂 I really thought I’d be close to being done, and just on to touch up. Unfortunately everything took so much longer than planned. Even though I might sound like I’m griping, the point is that set backs happen when remodeling and they can be successfully worked through. Just not always as quickly as hoped!

Plumbing

Oh the plumbing has been a bit of a challenge this week. It just can’t be easy can it?!? The plumbing really should have been a matter of quickly changing out the fixtures, no major changes. Famous last words, ha ha. Ok, it really wasn’t that bad, it just required 4 different trips to the hardware store! Continue reading →

Master Bathroom Reno week 3 – Jeffrey Court All-Star Challenge

We are in week 3 of the Jeffrey Court All-star Challenge hosted by Jeffrey Court along with Behr Paint and Frog Tape. This week I tackled some of the big building projects, some that have been waiting 10 years to be finished. 🙂 ha ha

Voting goes through July 12th at 11:59 pm EST. You can vote once per day. If you have a minute, I would sure love your vote.

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Been Building…

With the beautiful floor tile getting put down last week, I started worrying about my next big hurdle in the bathroom reno. I really need to get the vanity built and in place. I also need to find a counter-top for it. Being on a tight timeline, I realized I really should have had a counter-top company lined up weeks before. But alas here we are. I contacted solid surface companies for bids.  I started looking through the classifieds for maybe something useable.  Then I found an ad in the classifieds for bathroom countertops with sinks, that are made from kitchen remnants. Lucky for me, they have a quick turnaround and I should have a new counter-top next week. Woot Woot!

Building the Vanity

My new vanity is based off a unique vanity I saw in a home many years ago. It has an open lower center, great for baskets with towels. Then 4 drawers on each side. The original vanity’s top jagged in, following the shape of the inset. However I decided to just go straight a crossed and hopefully it works out.

Last Fall I bought a pallet of 18″-36″ knotty alder cutoffs from a business for $1/piece. I have been trying to use those boards wherever possible. The saying that you never have enough clamps is true, as I was trying to glue up the 4 main panels for the vanity.

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Recessed Medicine Cabinet

This months Reader Request project plan is a request from Debbie, who is renovating her master bath and wants a medicine cabinet.  Hope the reno is going great for you Debbie!  Her inspiration for the project plan is this beautiful recessed medicine cabinet by the talented Ronda and Les at the Batchelors Way

Master Bathroom Makeover Batchelors Way

Master Bath from Batchelors Way – the inspiration for this plan

Gorgeous right! You can check out their building process Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

The medicine cabinet for Debbie’s master bath will be 48″ wide and 33″ tall with inset doors.

Create extra space in your bathroom by building a recessed medicine cabinet with these free woodworking plans.To install a recessed medicine cabinet you need to cut a hole in the wall, remove the drywall and some studs and prepare the studs with additional 2×4’s to make a secure space to mount the cabinet.  This Old House has a good article to help you prepare your wall for the medicine cabinet.  One important note, you shouldn’t install a recessed medicine cabinet (of this size) in a load bearing wall.

The hole in the wall for this medicine cabinet should be 47 1/4″ wide x 31 1/2″ tall.  An easy tool to use to cut the drywall nicely is an oscillating or job plus tool with the semi-circle blade. Create extra space in your bathroom by building a recessed medicine cabinet with these free woodworking plans.

 

How to Build a Recessed Medicine Cabinet

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