Modern Primary Can Remodel: Business Office 4: Barn Door Medicine Cabinet

How to build in addition to install an extra large custom medicine cabinet amongst DIY mirrored barn doo Modern Master Bath Remodel: Part 4: Barn Door Medicine Cabinet

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We're getting unopen to finally finishing the bath friends. Most of the large stuff is out of the way. In my "Part 1" weblog post I showed the flooring programme in addition to identified the walls that nosotros were planing to move. Last calendar week I shared my custom tile shower and today I'm moving to the other side of the room - the H2O closet.

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So you're likely thinking "Speak American Elisha. What the hell is a 'water closet'?". It's basically a fancy get upward for the piffling room where the can is. Not having a lockable door hiding the can is a deal-breaker for me. Luckily, when nosotros bought the house, nosotros noticed nosotros had some options.

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The original layout entirely allowed a small-scale alcove or niche for the can behind a medium sized linen closet. I dear my husband, but nosotros needed a piffling to a greater extent than privacy than that (especially since nosotros removed the door into the bath long ago). We decided if nosotros were to relocate the linen closet, nosotros could plow the toilet

So during the demo, nosotros pulled out the cabinet doors in addition to closet, in addition to tore downwards the wall.

To create the novel H2O closet, nosotros needed to build a novel wall in addition to add together a door. We convey a concrete slab foundation, which makes adding novel walls a piffling different. Normally, yous tin simply boom the bottom plate of the wall through the sub-floor in addition to into the flooring joists, but nailing into masonry tin live tricky. A lot of foundations inward the southwest where I alive are what's called a "post tension slab". Without going into a long explanation, it is VERY of import non to drill or boom into those type of foundations unless yous know what yous are doing.

We used DynaGrip Heavy Duty structure adhesive to secure our bottom plate to the foundation. DynaGrip grabs chop-chop in addition to is designed to bond a multitude of materials, including forest in addition to masonry. We thus stud-framed the residue of the wall, attaching it to the existing framing inward intersecting walls.

We picked upward a 30" pre-hung door from the same supplier nosotros used when nosotros replaced our interior door slabs, in addition to installed it where the linen cupboard originally was.

While framing the novel wall, I decided nosotros should brand the most of the infinite in addition to larn out a 2' x 4' opening for an extra large, custom medicine cabinet.

We created an opening using additional 2 x 6's in addition to hung drywall on both sides of the novel wall.

I built a simple, 2' x 4' box from 1 x half dozen boards to create the basic medicine cabinet insert. I wanted the whole insert to sit down level within the wall niche, thus I attached 3/8" plywood (the same thickness every bit the drywall) to the dorsum of the box. I included fixed shelves for rigidity. If yous wanted adjustable shelves, I would recommend having at to the lowest degree ane fixed shelf nigh the middle in addition to using a shelf pivot jig for the rest. I secured the whole affair using wood glue in addition to 2" brads.

Since the medicine cabinet agree brand upward in addition to beauty products (and other things that tend to leak in addition to brand a mess) I wanted to brand certain the interior was seamless in addition to slowly to wipe down. Before painting, I caulked each seam using Alex Plus Fast Dry. It's hands downwards my favorite latex caulk! It's slowly to create clean in addition to tin live painted inward entirely thirty minutes.

When the pigment was fully dried, I slid the medicine cabinet insert into the wall niche in addition to secured it inward identify using my DeWalt cordless brad nailer. A cordless brad nailer tin live a piffling pricey, but if yous are going to exercise much complete carpentry, it's a life saver!

I mitered some uncomplicated 1 x 2 reduce in addition to cased the opening, similar to how yous would reduce out a door frame. This hid the intersection betwixt the forest cabinet in addition to the crude oil drywall opening.

In my experience, filling boom holes on smoothen boards or reduce ever looks the best when using forest filler. My favorite is Plastic Wood-X amongst DryDex. It dries chop-chop in addition to sands similar a dream.

Once the holes were filled, I could caulk the seam where the 1 x 2 reduce meets the drywall. I used the same Alex Plus Fast Dry every bit before, which I saved using a DAP Cap.

I ever portion my favorite products amongst yous guys, but individual actually deserves a heighten for designing this one! I establish the DAP Cap past times accident a few months agone at Home Depot. It's a universal cap that volition lucifer in addition to protect virtually whatsoever production inward a tube, but it has a 2nd project every bit well.

The long halt tin live used every bit a caulk smoothing tool! My fingertips cheered for joy when I brought this home.

When the caulk was dry, I touch-up painted the insert in addition to painted the trim.

I ever knew I wanted something unique for the doors, thus I decided to hang 2 long mirrors side-by side, barn door style. I'll live sharing how to brand your ain mirrored door on the inexpensive shorty. In the meantime, I desire to portion how I mounted the doors to the wall.

I used my skillful friend Jaime's tutorial to brand my ain DIY barn door hardware.

Since these doors kinda float inward the middle of the wall, it wasn't practical to convey a channel or runway for the bottom of the doors to ride in. This created a large problem. The DIY hardware allowed the doors to slide dorsum in addition to forth, but at that spot wasn't anything to proceed the bottom of the doors from flapping inward in addition to out. That's when a local friend gave me the thought of using a keyhole router bit.

A keyhole bit is T-shaped in addition to cuts T-shaped tracks or openings.

I measured to determine the slide length I needed for each door. I drilled a airplane pilot hole, thus used the keyhole bit to cutting a runway on the backside of the mirror frame.

Next, I marked on the wall where the airplane pilot hole of the runway would align. I pre-drilled in addition to drove a 3-1/2" screw into a stud. I used washers in addition to a nylon spacer to hold a 7/8" gap from the wall, allowing the mirrored doors to clear the reduce roughly the cabinet.

When I was ready to hang the doors, I aligned the screw caput amongst the airplane pilot hole, in addition to pushed it into the keyhole track. The t-shape held onto the caput of the screw, preventing the door to line away from the wall.

The lastly stair was to attach a large bar pull to each of the mirrored doors,

and I convey my novel extra large, barn door medicine cabinet!

I'll likely proceed the doors opened upward most of the fourth dimension for daily use, but it's dainty to know I tin unopen them in addition to cover the junk when i desire to.

You tin NEVER convey to much storage space, specially inward a bathroom.

The start couplet of times I tried to opened upward the doors, the drive was a piffling rough, thus I rubbed some wax into the runway on the dorsum of the doors, every bit good every bit on the screw head. That helped quite a bit! They slide much to a greater extent than smoothly now.

So, here's where the bath stands currently. You tin grab a glimpse of the new walk-in shower on the window wall. You tin banking enterprise check out this weblog post to consider how I installed that bad boy.

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Next, I'll live tackling the novel location for the linen closet. It involves to a greater extent than drywall, thus Heaven assist me! Like this idea? Feel costless to pivot the picture below to relieve it for later!