[riverview111]

There are a few 4-foot wide, single sink bathroom vanities in the home we're planning. I'm trying to figure out how to do this with IKEA kitchen cabs. I'd prefer stone countertops with undermounted sinks. I'm trying to center the sink in each vanity. The main limitation to doing this is that IKEA kitchen cabinets do not have 12 inch wide drawer units--it seems 15 inches is the narrowest they make. Since these vanities MUST have drawers, I'm thinking I need to use the 15" wide drawer units on each side of the sink, and use an 18" wide unit as the sink base. This is pretty narrow for a sink base. DH will hate me when it comes time to do plumbing. Plus, it is so narrow that I may have to modify (carve out) the cab boxes where the underside of the sink meets them. Any brighter ideas?

[GardenOfDarwin]

When you say they MUST have drawers, what do you mean? Could you use pull-outs? There would be drawers internal to the cabinet door. Would that work? Then you could use 2 12" pull-outs on the ends and a 24" sink base in the middle. Do you have the depth (front to back) for the standard 24" kitchen cabinet depth + door thickness and pull depth? That's frequently the stopping point in converting kitchen cabs to bathroom cabs. Sounds like fun planning...how many bathrooms are you doing? Door style?

Susan

[riverview111]

Susan,

Wow, fast reply. First of all, thanks for all you do here. You are amazing and a huge resource. I've been meaning to introduce myself over at that thread, but have been overwhelmed lately. I hope I will eventually contribute a lot of great stuff here. We're building a new home and I'm planning on IKEA kitchen cabs in many places, with many mods. I need 4' vanities in 2 or 3 places (2 in the master). We do have the 24" depth available. Not sure on door style yet.

I need drawers because two of them are in the master bath and we need drawer storage there. I don't want to use wire pull-outs, if that's what you are referring to. We both dislike wire-bottom storage. If they were solid-bottomed, I might consider it, but would have to sell it to DH. We do have a little OVER 4' available width for the masterbathroom vanities--if I could expand the sink cab to 21", I think this would probably be the answer.

Thanks for the suggestion!

[GardenOfDarwin]

Nope, not wire baskets, but Blum Tandembox drawers. Here's my 12" pull-out outfitted with 2 extra shallow drawers. It ordinarily comes with 2 shallow drawers and one deep drawer.



Would that work?

Susan

[riverview111]

It might, thanks. Will have to show it to DH at IKEA. Thanks again!

[alydev]

I would like to do this as well. My main bathroom needs a 48" vanity, and we'd like 2 sets of drawers there, one on each side of the centre vanity. It seems like Ikea would be a much better price than regular vanity cabs, although I wonder if we would lose the savings because we'd likely have to get a custom made counter-top for the sink.

Does anyone know if the 2007 kitchen catalog will have any new sizes/configurations for drawer units? 4-drawer 12" units would be great.

[fisheggs]

Is there a reason that you aren't using the Vattern bathroom series? It's modular, like the kitchen ones, and they have a 24" sink base and 12" units with drawers. They aren't 24" deep, I think they are only 15" deep or something like that. Is that the problem?

[riverview111]

I do want the 24" depth. Also I like the fact that I can easily reface in the future and totally change the look of the bathroom, just by changing doors and cover panels. I guess those pull-out drawers don't accept drawer fronts? Ifthey did or you could alter them so they could, it seems that would be a great solution.

[alydev]

I like the covered toe-kicks on the kitchen cabs. I also like the idea of changing the doors if we want to change it sometime.

I have been thinking about this more and this is what I think I'll do. I think I'll use a 30" sink cabinet closest to the toilet and a 15" or 18" drawer set on the other side. I will centre the sink in this configuration, probably cutting down on the inside of the cabinet so the sink will fit and losing the top drawer, fixing a stationary drawer front on that.
This will give us space on both sides of the vanity. One side has a floor heat register, so I think I will use a tall open shelving unit such as Molger there, fo towels and such.

[kmcg]

riverview: In the 12" width, there are no drawers fronts available. But many of the other size pullout drawers can take drawer fronts (of course then you just order the banks of drawers so it's not really a modification).