Because We Needed More Room For Cleaning Supplies and Toilet Paper

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The preface to that novel should be “We Built a Cabinet Under the Bathroom Sink”. Make sense now? Oh boy, this day is already backward and upside and confusing, but we’re going with it so hang on tight.

Remember the downstairs bathroom? This one…

Well, things are GOING DOWN in there, people! That sounded gross. I meant renovation wise, you weirdos. Home decor, new paint, fresh updates… you with me now? Awhile back, I showed you my grand plan for that space…

And some of it has already happened! Like the new sink (you can read about it here)…

Annnnd that’s all I’ve show you so far, huh? Well, I’ve got another exciting addition for you today. For the longest time, the area under the sink was just an open space. As long as we’ve lived here, we always wanted to add a cabinet under there for some extra concealed storage. Extra storage is gold around these parts and to think that we could gain a whole CORNER’S WORTH to stash extra cleaning supplies and paper towels and toilet paper? We can get on board with that plan.

The problem was that our quirky little sink has this really stellar angular feature… so anything that we would built would have to be a custom fit exactly to that space. #awesome

After some thought and a lot of looking around for a ready-made cabinet that would fit, I found just the solution at the Habitat for Humanity Restore (we love that place)! The first thing we did was disassemble it because we only wanted the front panel with the doors. This would act as the front of the cabinet and doing it this way meant that we didn’t have to fashion our own doors from scratch.

We wedged it between a 2×4″ cut to size and the top of the sink and attached it to both in the back using flat mending plates.

A quick word about fitting the 2×4 to look “built in”… essentially, we cut a chunk out of the molding…

… and then cut the 2×4 on an angle and wedged/glued/screwed it in place.

From there, we figured out the dimensions we’d need to create the left side and used the extra scraps from the cabinet we bought as extra material for it. That board is also notched at the bottom to be able to fit around the molding.

On the other side was a gap between the edge of the door frame and the wall (you can see it a few pictures up), which I filled with a thin piece of scrap wood, cut down to fit in the space, and notched to account for the molding.

So that’s the cabinet!  It still looks a little shabby… which is where the wood filler, sanding, and paintable caulk comes in. I will say it again and again- caulking covers a multitude of sins. And certainly a multitude of cracks. And then, of course, PAINT! It’s actually already painted, I’m just waiting for it to finish drying so I can put it all back together and show it to you tomorrow! Stay tuned! 🙂

PS. On Friday, we’re finally going to reveal the big counter top makeover… hint hint, it’s not gray/purple anymore! You can see some of the remnants of the project if you look closely at the tops of the cabinet doors and the floor. PLUS we have a super exciting giveaway so that you can give a counter top of your own the royal treatment as well! So many good things. And so many exclamation points in those last two paragraphs. 🙂

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