How To Install Floating Vanity Cabinet

Upgrade your bathroom with this floating vanity can be built even to narrower bathroom space.

How to install floating vanity cabinet. Sometimes a floating vanity cabinet is also expressed as a verb - floating your vanity. I found these professional grade mounting brackets at a local plumbing supply store and while Im sure its overkill for my tiny little vanity I like to do things right. Regardless set the cabinet on the angle iron and attach the cabinet to the iron.

Drill ¾ pocket holes around the edge and attach in place using 1 ¼ pocket hole screws like shown. Do NOT rely just on screws through the narrow part of the wood into the studs - also add angled ones either side. Your cabinets should be able to give the impression that they are floating with the dimensions that you have given.

Leave a spot for the top of your standard 2x6 brace. Cut out a big hole in the plywood top for sink fitting. The cabinet must be securely fastened to a wall cleat through the back of at least 12 thickness.

Make sure the plywood pieces are flush to the INSIDE of the 2x2s. To that end the first step to installing a floating vanity is to beef up the wall behind it. Floated cabinets are wall-mounted vanities that float above the ground so instead of extending all the way to the bottom of the floor they rest slightly above it.

When the glue on the cabinet-mounted cleat is dry you can lift the cabinet up slip it over the wall-mounted cleat and gently lower it into position. If the studs in your bathroom do not line up to the mounting location for your vanity wood blocking can be installed between the studs using standard 2 x 4s. Cut pieces of ¾ plywood to fit in the openings in the sidethey should be 8x18.

Then make a three sided box to cover the P trap. This makes installing the drawer slides easier. If the cabinet were set off the floor at least 10 then it will give a better floating look.