How To Make A Floating Bathroom Vanity

Aug 30 2015 - DIY Network host Amy Matthews shows how to create a beautiful storage solution by building a custom floating vanity in a bathroom.

How to make a floating bathroom vanity. I love that people still connect with it and want to know how we designed it. Its been about a year and half since I did the spring one room challenge and revitalized our main floor bathroomand yet I still get asked about the floating vanity we built. Learn to update your own look after space for yourself with 55 unique and easy to build DIY makeup vanity ideas.

Attach the rails and the two side stiles with wood glue. Floating vanities often use solid-surface countertops because it adds structural integrity and rigidity to the vanity so dont go rogue and use a different counter. Make pilot holes in the vanity on the middle of the back railpreferably these holes would go on each end of the vanity.

We associate that light with more room in. Assemble the floating vanity sides. Use a miter saw to cut horizontal plywood rails to fit the top and bottom of the vanity front plus three vertical stiles.

Includes vanity material list tool list and step by step directions you can follow to DIY a vanity. 2x2 or 2x4 lengths to secure to walls and support the vanity. DIY Floating Bathroom Vanity Steps.

Grab a fellow handyman and a few buckets to help put the vanity at the right spot on the wall. Using 23s and 3 wood screws build the frame and anchor to studs. Then carefully position the strip of edge banding and press firmly using a roller.

So after cutting a strip of edge banding slightly long you simply apply the Speed Tape and pull off the backer paper. Place your floating vanity on buckets or piles of wood that raise it to the right height in the right position. Grab the birch oak plywood 28 and 24 to build this floating vanity.