How To Turn A Mirror Into A Recessed Medicine Cabinet

Recessed or surface mount.

How to turn a mirror into a recessed medicine cabinet.

Diy built medicine cabinet via diynetwork 10 of 11. Remove the mirror from the front of the. Aka the medicine cabinet. If you are looking for something that looks less like a cabinet and more like a mirror on the wall consider a size or shape that is nontraditional or includes a decorative frame.

How can i convert a bathroom mirror into a medicine cabinet. So while this post started as a medicine cabinet makeover it turned into turning a mirror into a medicine cabinet from scratch. If you want a wider cabinet you will need to build it outside of the framing or build a jacked structural frame within the wall. Diy recessed medicine cabinet via hertoolbelt 7 of 11.

Eather ut a hole in the sheet rock and box it in or get a shadow box and attach to the wall then add the mirror with hinges. Your cabinet frame can be larger or smaller than the frame mirror. How big is mirror. It would be great for a bathroom bedroom or anywhere you need a little extra organizational space.

Another option would be to buy an inexpensive surface mount medicine cabinet x2 and afix the frame mirror to it. Purchase a standard recessed medicine cabinet one that s meant to be installed in the wall between studs. Isn t that a good plan. Is it glued to the wall.

So the building we just moved out of is about 10 years old and built by a condo developer which means that someone in an interior design office probably chose a lot of the standard features and fixtures mostly based on price. On sep 14 2018. Today we re showing you how to turn an old medicine cabinet into open shelving. I made a recessed medicine cabinet hidden behind a sliding mirror idea stolen from u zealotnic on r diy.

You can see the scrapped base above it used 2 6 s to box in my mirror on 3 sides. These are great for hiding what you don t want your guests to see but are impractical in a lot of senses. Diy first aid cabinet via look what i made. Diy mirror and glass medicine cabinet via victoriaelizabethbarnes 9 of 11.

Post with 1922 votes and 176738 views. So working with just the mirror portion of my cabinet i started laying out my wood. Diy medicine cabinet from a mirror via scavengerchic 8 of 11. Turn a medicine cabinet into a framed picture with hidden storage behind it.

The oh but a medicine cabinet means you can t have a pretty mirror immediately popped into my head with the intro so i felt pleased to have guessed right on where the post was going also i m sorry about the folks that seem to be a bit personally offended by not prioritizing maximum storage function over form.