How To Turn A Mirror Into A Recessed Medicine Cabinet

Add a quick and easy diy frame to a plain mirrored bathroom medicine cabinet.

How to turn a mirror into a recessed medicine cabinet.

Is it glued to the wall. Turn a medicine cabinet into a framed picture with hidden storage behind it. A recessed medicine cabinet comes in a variety of sizes and shapes including thin round tall wide and oval shapes. Diy mirror and glass medicine cabinet via victoriaelizabethbarnes 9 of 11.

Diy first aid cabinet via look what i made. Today we re showing you how to turn an old medicine cabinet into open shelving. Diy built medicine cabinet via diynetwork 10 of 11. 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.

Your cabinet frame can be larger or smaller than the frame mirror. So working with just the mirror portion of my cabinet i started laying out my wood. 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. Post with 1922 votes and 176738 views.

Diy medicine cabinet from a mirror via scavengerchic 8 of 11. It would be great for a bathroom bedroom or anywhere you need a little extra organizational space. You can see the scrapped base above it used 2 6 s to box in my mirror on 3 sides. 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.

How big is mirror. Isn t that a good plan. Recessed or surface mount. These are great for hiding what you don t want your guests to see but are impractical in a lot of senses.

So while this post started as a medicine cabinet makeover it turned into turning a mirror into a medicine cabinet from scratch. How can i convert a bathroom mirror into a medicine cabinet. Aka the medicine cabinet. Another option would be to buy an inexpensive surface mount medicine cabinet x2 and afix the frame mirror to it.

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. 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. Purchase a standard recessed medicine cabinet one that s meant to be installed in the wall between studs. One thing that screams 1990 s to me a recessed plastic storage compartment with a mirrored swinging door.

On sep 14 2018.