Make Your Own Vessel Sink Bowl

Bowls used as sinks or vessel sinks as they are known in the interior design trade are a hot trend in home design and can add a stylish and contemporary twist to traditional bathroom basins.

Make your own vessel sink bowl.

If you decide to install a bowl as a sink there are a few important factors to keep in mind before installation. Ginger used a resin bowl to make her vessel sink. Use the diameter of the pipe as a guide to the holes you need to make. Drill a hole in the base of the bowl.

Jan 6 2013 another view of copper vessel sink originally uploaded by gimbler taking a break from re arranging furniture and thinking back to a fu. Buy a serving bowl that you can fit your hands in you will look silly taking bowls off store shelves and sticking your hands in them just like i did for several months. She wrote up a how to 5 months after its installation just to make sure it held up. Center the bowl on the countertop and mark its location as well as the drain hole location.

Remove the bowl make another pilot hole and use the steel hole saw to cut the drain hole out of the vanity. Attach the sink drain check your cuts by placing the bowl and drain assembly on the counter to make sure everything lines up. Choose a masonry drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the pipe. To make the vessel sink we used a serving bowl a chrome pipe kit similar to this and sink drain.

Jill bought a bamboo 20 bowl at world market and turned it into a lovely vessel sink.