I'm trying to get a new bathroom fitted and I'm having difficulty knowing what the options are for the basin.
There's a 150cm gap on the long wall of the bathroom between the short wall and the end of the bath. I'd like to fill this with floor mounted cabinets and put the sink (recessed or semi-recessed) in a work top. The thing is complicated by the fact that there's a window 100cm along requiring a 10-15cm step down and then a 50cm continuation to the bath.
The depth of the cabinet is flexible but the height is obviously determined by the sink height.
Can I use kitchen cabinet carcases and bathroom work top? Is there a better way? Ready made vanities don't seem to fit the bill.
Don't see why not, if the dimensions are suitable, with the usual obvious provisos to try to avoid water getting to the edges.
But if not, when I started doing DIY fixes to this sort of problem
*many* years ago, I usually made up structural frames from batten, typically 1 x 1.5 or 2 x 1 depending on the loads, finally faced externally with hardboard or plywood according to the application.
These days I have found it is much easier to make up a box-like structure from 18 mm ply, with all the main elements perpendicular, vertical, and horizontal, but scribed and cut to fit irregular walls, with cutouts for waste pipes, etc. Cut parts straight to size with a sawboard, jointed with biscuits (screwed and glued too). I'll usually try to make it so that it can come out in one piece, in case you have to lift floorboards or get at the wall behind for some reason.
Make the sink easily removable, with accessible service valves and waste couplings. The weight will keep it in place, with just a silicone bead to the wall which you can cut easily if it has to come out.
Once you get the hang of sawboards and biscuit cutters, you can make such structures surprisingly quickly and accurately.
18 mm might look heavy, you can sometimes get away with 12 mm (or less), but 18 mm is easier to work with. Although purists might object, you can join parts at right angles using relatively thin screws into the edges of 18 mm plywood. (Drill clearance holes in the outer part and pilot holes into the edge). With glue plus biscuits they will be quite strong.
No harm finishing with proper worktop. You might be able to finish with "off the shelf" doors depending on the dimensions, but it doesn't take too long to make custom ones depending on the pattern you want.
Thanks for all the advice. I'll take note of TheChief's comment also.
The reason I mentioned kitchen cabinets is that we fancy the very high gloss white finish that some kitchens come in. Neither end of the cabinet will be visible and I intend to use an insert of worktop to cover the vertical drop so it seems feasible to adapt a couple of cabinets.
The bath end cabinet will probably be used as dirty linen basket so it may need to open at the top rather than the front.
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