How to make a bathroom vanity?

by delavin home June 30, 2024

Sources

How to Install a Bathroom Vanity From A to Z - YouTube

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How to Install a Bathroom Vanity and Sink - The Home Depot

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This Is How The Bathroom Vanity Plumbing Turned Out (The Best ...

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How to Build a Bathroom Vanity with Off Center Sink and Fluted Detail

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Answer

Here are the key steps to install a bathroom vanity:

Measure the space and choose a vanity that fits properly. Consider the width, depth, and height to ensure it will work in your bathroom. 25
Turn off the water supply and disconnect the plumbing from the old vanity. This includes the drain pipe and water supply lines. 5
Remove the old vanity by unscrewing it from the wall. Lift it out carefully. 2
Determine the center line on the wall where the new vanity will be installed based on the plumbing locations.
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Position the vanity in the desired spot and mark where the mounting screws will go. Drill pilot holes and secure the vanity to the wall. 2
Connect the drain pipe to the vanity drain. Reconnect the water supply lines to the faucet. Turn the water back on and check for leaks. 23
Install the vanity top and sink. Apply silicone caulk around the edges. 2
Finish by caulking around the top edges of the vanity and painting the wall behind it if needed. 3

The key is to plan ahead, measure carefully, and take your time with the plumbing connections. With some basic tools and a little DIY know-how, you can successfully install a new bathroom vanity yourself. Just be sure to turn off the water first to avoid any leaks or water damage.

References

1. How to Install a Bathroom Vanity From A to Z - YouTube 2. How to Install a Bathroom Vanity and Sink - The Home Depot 3. This Is How The Bathroom Vanity Plumbing Turned Out (The Best ...4. How to Build a Bathroom Vanity with Off Center Sink and Fluted Detail 5. Update Your Bathroom Vanity without a Contractor - Twin Star Home

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Author: GL Rustic Design

Key insights

Customizing the design of the vanity allows for personalization and functionality, such as adding drawers on the side cabinets and a cabinet in the middle.
You can customize your bathroom vanity by measuring and cutting the pieces yourself, allowing for a personalized and unique design.
Attaching the soft close hinges and handles to the bathroom vanity doors is a simple process that can be done with just some Phillips head screws and glue.
Pre-drilling holes with a CNC machine ensures everything lines up perfectly, saving time and effort.
️ Accurate measurements and accounting for gaps are crucial when building a bathroom vanity to ensure a perfect fit.
It'd be better to use heavier scrap pieces for lining up the door.
Using the right paint and spraying everything can make the vanity durable for the bathroom.

Timestamped Summary

00:00 Build your own bathroom vanity with side cabinets, drawers, and a middle cabinet for the sink.
01:14 Subscribe for more custom bathroom vanity videos, learn how to measure, cut, and assemble the frame, drawers, and doors using pocket hole screws and glue.
03:01 Use CNC machine for bathroom vanity, trim can be done in multiple ways, tackle gap at bottom with two legs and top and bottom trim.
03:50 Attach sides, make doors, drill hinges, attach trim, spray paint vanity, attach doors with nails, glue, and hinges, order handles from Amazon.
06:01 Attach handles and bolts, pre-drill holes for perfect alignment, attach cabinet to face, add bottom piece, measure and attach runners, use torque head screws for secure attachment.
08:21 Cut wood for drawer slides, attach with screws, build drawers, measure and cut pieces for vanity, assemble with nails and glue, ensure even drawer slides with wood piece.
10:54 Use inch screws to avoid blowing through MDF door, align drawers and handles, create fake drawer for sink, and attach using inch screws to customize bathroom vanity.
13:02 Move and line up the vanity, use whatever paint, and spray everything for a finished bathroom vanity.

Video Full Text

00:00 Hey guys welcome back to the channel. Uh this is uh Geo rustic design presenting a vanity to go in a bathroom. So um I'm trying something new trying to get a new app to download so to begin with on here. Uh you want to assemble the side cabinets. Of course. I use my CNC machine to cut out the sides and then I just use some Runners made out of one by threes to connect the cabinet to itself together and then you want to start on the face. So the face is you have the one by threes and then the inch and a half pieces on the side and then you just kind of want to design it. How you want your vanity to be so whether it be um. You know drawers on the side cabinets on the side. However you want this is kind of where you can decide from there. But my customer wanted um drawers on three drawers on each side and then the cabinet in the middle which is a pretty. It's a pretty simple vanity itself. So as you can see I marked everything off. So the middle section is going to be for the cabinet um. The top drawer will be a fake drawer so that because the sink will sit down into the cabinet and then the bottom of that will be the two doors that you can open the cabinet.
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01:14 I'll have a chance um. I just want to say please subscribe to the channel. It really helps it out um you know it really helps it grow as it is. I try to do as as many videos. As I can um you know just to try to get the info out there to show you how I've done things and also this is a custom vanity. I think it ended up being like 56 and a half inches long or 59.5 inches long something like that so um. I'll put some of the measurements down below. But you you know you really just want to kind of measure everything out yourself um you know and how you want to do it. But for the most part I use like two inch um for the whole frame and then when I got down to the drawers and in between the doors I use just inch and a half pieces you could do this as a frameless um. You could put you don't have to put these little inch and a half strips you can kind of measure it out to where the doors fit in there without any kind of uh frame so but back to the video um. So here um. This is the drawer face so you can see the three drawers there and then the two cabinet two bigger ones to the left will be the for the cabinets and then here it's kind of how you put it on. So I use um I I'd pre-drilled with some pocket hole screws um into the side of the vanity that will help hold the face of it on. You. Can also put a little bit of glue and then I took some inch and a quarter screws torque head screws and connected from the back from from inside to help hold. The help hold the whole face on um and also like I said you can kind of see how I done it from there just a few Runners and then so from there I wanted to go ahead and cut out all the doors.
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03:01 So of course. I use my CNC machine um. You know it's a shop saver so please comment below if you want to see more CNC videos please. Let me know I always forget I always forget to do these I feel like other people would be highly interested in these but drop a comment below. If you want to see more of those so moving on to I went ahead and do the trim so the trim could be done. Multiple ways. It's just kind of the way I've always done it. Most of the time you don't see the trim on the side but so this since this one has the foot kicker you'll have the kind of a you know a gap at the bottom and I really didn't know how to tackle this. So you know I just kind of trimmed it out how I normally would so you have the two legs and then the top and the bottom and then only one of the tops will connect so like you can do from the left side um. You know it's kind of high on the video there.
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03:50 But uh you can see as I flip it around you can do and then you know you can attach the left side at the top and then on the other one you can attach the right side and when you rotate those and flip them onto the vanity. Then everything works out the way it should and I attach those by using the inch and a quarter screws to hold the trim to the vanity itself. So the next step was so all my doors are made from MDF. You can make them out of you know regular stuff but it just. It's so much easier for my machine just to cut the MDF doors and everything comes out cleaner if I'm going to paint it. In the end so I went ahead and I drilled all the hinges I need for the doors and all the drawers that I need as well um. So this is me going back to the trim attaching the trim to the outside of the vanity to make sure that is on and then in between steps. I don't show it because I didn't figure. Most people would want to see it but um I used a spray gun to spray the whole vanity. Customer brought the color that they wanted um and it's like a. It's like a dark blue color but the while I was doing all this. I had it had been in between spraying the vanities and spraying the doors and the whatnot so that I'm just showing you the bottom kick board. How I attached it just some some trim nails and some glue and then so going back to the door. So here I had already painted the doors I sprayed the front and I just brushed the back and so this is me attaching the hinges the soft close hinges. It's just some Phillips head screws and then some more Phillip head screws um and ignore all this. It's just so dusty in my shop. Everything gets so dirty but I promise everything's clean um. So from there I just attacked those Phillip head screws to the inside of the face and so that will give you your doors on each side and then the handles I you know I order all this on Amazon.
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06:01 So I don't think I have a special supplier um go to Amazon look up. You know I buy the handles and bolt their three inch handles. Um. You know of course. I pre-drilled all the holes with my CNC so everything lines up perfectly. They make jigs that you can do this with I've done this for you know four or five years before I ever got a CNC to do the holes. I just used a jig so here kind of important step. This is the inside of the cabinet um. I used the two pocket holes to attach it to the face and I'd cut me out a little Notch there in the bottom to get it over that um that bottom Runner piece there. And so I made sure this make sure this is on the very inside of that face so that you don't have to add any pieces for when you go back and you when you start putting all your all your drawers in um so you know and also you can always add glue and all these steps too um. I didn't hear but so you can use that pocket head screws attach both of those both on each side and then here you have the bottom piece um that just slides right in there. And I just used again some torque head screws and attached that uh to the you can see that bottom Runner there and then also I measured it out um. There's another Runner kind of about three inches from the front um attached the both of those and then I use a two. I think it was a two two inch torque text screw into the side on the drawer side so that you can't see those other screws from that side um countersink. All those always countersink the hole especially when you get into the ends of ends of wood um countersunk. Those holes uh tap those screws in two inches on each side um you know put one two in the gear countersink. The back um like I said make sure that you're getting those in there so just so the bottom of the whole you know. The whole thing is better secured um and then like I said so the both the two inch screws on both sides of make sure they're on the inside of the drawer side to attach the bottom. Those two floating sides um and then here I had kind of measured out where I needed the um that piece to be or that screw to be and it was rough.
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08:21 I don't know it was like a three three and a half inches something like that um and then so the next step is when you start adding all the drawer slides. So here I've always cut me a piece of wood. This just came in you know so handy instead of measuring every time. So I just cut that piece of wood um I use it for every drawer that I do and then I just kind of line it up there um and then I draw me. A lines try to cross with the um with the small squares um you know just so I can make sure everything's lined up and then from there I just you know again order these on Amazon. They're just some you know 16 inch. Drawer slides um and then so use the screws provided some come with screws. Some don't use those screws to attach all the drawer slides in um and then from there you start building your drawer slide. So here I just use some half inch Birch um. You saw it comes out so clean on the vanities uh you know and I just use screw. I use just some Brad head. I think I don't know 16 gauge 18 gauge whichever one and then make sure you glue all those together. You know I've never had one fail me so you know knock on wood there. But so you know just use some top Bond glue and always like to do just one drawer um. You know I think these George end up being. I don't remember 15 inches wide or the whole. The opening so the drawer itself needs to be 13 inches wide. So you take two inches away to account for all the gaps you need um that will be the bottom and then the two sides you know is however tall it is and then you know the insides um as like I said I just use brad nails and glue punched all this together um and then use that this is where that piece of wood that I had just had that I was using to Mark where the drawers need to be. So I use that same piece of wood to then set on um set on the side here to line the slide up. So I know my slides are always even you know. It's just a small thing. I learned um a few years back and you really because I got I used to get real frustrated doing drawers um because if they're eighth inch eighth inch off it really messes you up so. But here I use as you can see above. There use the same piece of wood um get. My drawer slide on both sides make me some marks whatever set it up there and then you then you can push your drawer in and then once you do your drawer um.
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10:54 I just use some I think they're like inch screws again ordered on Amazon um you know just to go through. Just I don't want to blow through the MDF door or any door for that matter. I think they're inch screws. I just use four there and then I kind of line. All this up um you know looking back at this. It'd be better to um you know heavier scrap pieces you know whatever. However big you want your Gap to be so. You wanted to be half inch Gap. All the way around you know to take that scrap piece of wood and really help you line everything up um you know from the floor up just make sure everything comes out even but so here um like I said I had done already done. All the drawers put all the drawers in um and then you put the handles on. So you just drill a hole straight through for that and again everything's so dusty but um yeah and then so the this is the fake drawer that where the sink goes and then just cut some. I think it's five in the Gap. There uh cut some Paco or put pocket holes in that little scrap piece of wood drill all those in and then come back on the outside or the inside of the cabinet um and use those same inch screws to line all that up. Like I said however you want it to line up wherever you want to line up. I try to have you know all that to have like a half inch. Gap um you know to Overlay. You know you can do. These you can have this drawer sit on the inside. You can have the you know however you want it. It's up to you. This is how the customer wanted it so um. But here I'm taking those inch screws and put them in the back um so that I can attach the fake drawer on the front as you can see everything gets so. Dusty I even have a dust collector and it's still it gets pretty dusty but like I said you can line this thing up um.
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13:02 You know you might have to move it a few times I think I end up moving this a few times um you know outside this video. But I think it was too far to the right um but anyways you know line everything up um use. Your knees legs whatever you got to do to to get that thing in there so um yeah. Once you get it lined up. Then. It's pretty much done you know like. It's always easier to you know I use. I think they end up using like some bare Dynasty paint um. Customer brought me the paint I just use whatever paint. They did like I said I sprayed everything. Once I sprayed everything since it is MDF and it is going in the bathroom um. The no just the face.
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