DIY bathroom furniture

Modern stores offer a huge selection of home furnishings, but even with this seeming abundance, it is quite difficult for most buyers to purchase furniture for a bathroom. Someone does not fit the size, someone color scheme and design. Of course, you can turn to professionals for help and order an individual production of furnishings, but it’s much more profitable, cheaper, more practical to make your own bathroom furniture. In this article, we provide detailed and simple instructions for the production of such products.

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What furnishings do modern bathrooms have?

The main purpose and design of bathroom furniture is limited exclusively by available space, individual preferences, your own imagination.

More often in this room there are such models:

• Wall cabinets with shelves and mirrors above the sink.
• Cupboards with countertops over sinks.
• Floor cabinets for built-in appliances, such as washing machines.
• Huge floor cabinets for storing clothes, linen and towels.

Each piece of furniture performs its specific function. That is why, when designing furniture for a bathroom with your own hands, it is necessary to take into account the load imposed on the base and shelves during operation. For example:

• A cabinet for a washing machine or a bedside table under the sink should have a large margin of safety. This concerns the choice of material, the fastening used, the design of the location of the stiffeners.
• Hinged cabinets with mirrors take on a minimum of load, but at the same time they must contain a maximum of useful trifles with their minimum volume. In this regard, the walls of such organizers are made narrow, they are equipped with the maximum number of shelves inside.

Important! To make the furniture look aesthetically pleasing, it is better that it is completely closed with doors.

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Features of design and creation of drawings

Before you make furniture in the bathroom with your own hands, you need to make careful measurements. Practice shows that in these rooms there is always a minimum of space, but at the same time there are many fixed elements (walls, bathroom, toilet, pipes). Therefore, even a minimal size mismatch here can become critical.

There are three options for designing furniture:

1. In the store, select the appropriate model in shape, then copy the drawing.
2. Find the finished circuit on the Internet, then adjust the materials on it.
3. Create your own architecture manually or using a special editor.

Important! Even despite the fact that all the drawings are made at the amateur level, it is recommended to maintain maximum accuracy and accuracy of their implementation. Please note that in the future, you may have to provide the drawings to the saw shop or to the seller in the process of buying accessories and materials. To eliminate problems and not to pay extra money, check the reliability of each drawing immediately after completion of work on it.

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How to choose the right materials?

Today, you can find a huge amount of materials on the market, but, unfortunately, not all of them are suitable for assembling bathroom furniture.The most important criterion for premises of this type is moisture resistance. It is important that the material is resistant to moisture and humid air.

Given this factor, we can safely answer the question of what bathroom furniture is made of. It:

• Glass. Very fragile, but heavy. It is not easy to fix glass elements, therefore it is better to make doors or shelves out of it.
• Plastic. Plastic is incredibly convenient in terms of processing, but it is fragile, it does not always look aesthetically pleasing and very soft. Therefore, it should not be used for the manufacture of the frame - it is better for auxiliary parts.
• Wood with special impregnation. It can be used for the manufacture of frames and other furniture details. The wood may look like an ordinary birch or pine board. They are inexpensive, but difficult to process, they are heavy. Plywood, when properly impregnated, polished, varnished, is suitable for the manufacture of any bathroom designs. The only drawback is the unattractive appearance, so plywood requires painting.
• Laminated by a chipboard with moisture resistant seams. In terms of color diversity and cost, this is the best option. In terms of stiffness, it loses a little to plywood, but this drawback is completely smoothed out if the design is correctly created.

A separate discussion should be about the choice of material for the manufacture of countertops. It can be stone, plastic, laminated particleboard, board. Since this is the most important element, it must be durable, have a reliable fit. The thickness of the material is selected based on the existing drawing:

• To create a frame or curbstone, it is better to purchase plywood 15 mm thick or 20 mm chipboard.
• Doors, shelves and drawers, on the contrary, are best made from thin materials of 5-10 mm, thereby reducing the weight of the structure.

Important! Workpieces can be cut by yourself or order this service in the workshop.

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How to choose fittings?

Very important is the stage of selection of functional parts and fasteners. Bonding can be done using:

• Self-tapping screws. This is the most reliable and convenient option, but it does not look very good aesthetically.
• Nails A simple but less convenient option. The design will turn out to be non-separable, with time it will definitely become loose.
• Furniture screws. For mounting, this is the best option. Such elements are easy to disassemble, they look good.
• Eccentric couplers. This fastening is complicated; workpieces need additional preparation. You will also need a feather for drilling glasses. The advantage of such a mount is external invisibility.

Important! As additional fasteners, you can use wooden dowels, corners, moisture-proof glue.

Additional functional elements will be required:

• Handles for drawers and doors. It can be plastic or metal elements, because these materials are easy to clean.
• Wall mounts and legs. Furniture should not be placed directly on the floor. It is better to attach the organizers to the wall with screws, dowels, hooks, mounting boxes.
• Hinges for doors. It is better to choose hinges with closers, since only they are able to provide pleasant ergonomics.
• Longitudinal guides. It is better to install boxes on longitudinal rails with closers to ensure smooth sliding.
• Holders for shelves. Glass elements can be attached using small angles, wooden shelves - with ordinary metal pins.

Important! When making bathroom furniture with your own hands, do not forget to purchase additional corners to hide with them the joints on the frame and end ribbons for the aesthetic design of sawn laminated chipboard.

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How to assemble bathroom furniture from blanks?

To finally assemble the bathroom furniture with your own hands at home, you will also need a screwdriver, a drill, a screwdriver, a wrench, a hammer. In order not to damage the workpieces, it is better to lay something on the floor, for example, cardboard or fabric.

When assembling maximum attention should be paid to the following points:

• Joints on the frame in the bathroom, in particular with regard to countertops and walls - all joints in these places are best treated with silicone sealant.
• Before assembling the frame, all holes must be drilled under the fittings.
• After a few days, all the attachment points should be tightened again to ensure the most tight lapping of all surfaces.

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Stock footage

Clearly following the recommendations regarding the choice of materials, parts and fasteners, assembly features, you will quickly make shelves, organizer, floor cabinet, cabinet or wall cabinet for your bathroom.