Bathroom Medicine Cabinets

Recessed Medicine Cabinets

Replace Your Bathroom Wall Cabinet With A New Recessed Medicine Cabinet

If you're upgrading your bathroom wall cabinet, you should consider recessed medicine cabinets, if at all possible. Being set into the wall, it not only saves space, but looks better, discretely hides your everyday items, keeps dangerous items out of the reach of small hands, and is more durable.

However, before you run out to your home decorating store, there are two very important details you need to investigate. If your present bathroom medicine cabinet is not recessed, you will have to check to see what's behind it. Since a bathroom is usually small, but needs lots of plumbing, ductwork, and electrical wiring, that stuff is often hidden behind the drywall, and it may be costly to re-route it somewhere else. If it's there, then it would be wise to contact a professional contractor to get an estimate on the cost of moving it.

Even if you don't find things in the way, you will need to make sure that there's a stud on which to secure your new cabinet. And if all's well, then be sure you realize that it is definitely more difficult and costly to install recessed medicine cabinets than surface-mounted ones.

Once you've decided to go ahead, you're ready to begin choosing the size of your recessed medicine cabinet. You want to have it big enough so that you have the storage space and mirror size you need. But you don't want it to be so large that it overwhelms the rest of your bathroom decor.

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You also have a wide choice of styles and accessories available:

• Style - You will want to match the decor of the rest of the house. You wouldn't want to have an antique medicine cabinet in a sleekly modern style house. And you must decide on a color, and whether to choose a wood or metal frame, or even a frameless style. And don't forget the shape - ovals and scalloped edges are available as well as the conventional rectangular shape.
  
  
• Mirrors - If your cabinet is to be mounted over the sink, then you will surely want something in which to see your reflection. Again, you have a lot of choices:
  
  
  • one, two, or even three mirrors
  • beveled edges for beauty
  • single, double, or triple hinged doors, or sliding doors if space is limited
    
    
• Lighting - Do you want bulbs along the top of the cabinet, or mounted on the sides? Usually it's more flattering to have a light source from the side. Or do you want seperate wall sconces, if there's enough room for them?
  
  
• Extras - There are two features available that you might not have thought about, but are becoming more common. 1) a locked box within the cabinet in which to store dangerous medicines, to further ensure that they are inaccessible to children, and 2) a defogging system to keep the mirror free from condensed water vapor after taking a shower.

With prices for bathroom medicine cabinets ranging from $100 to over $700, they are available for any sized wallet. And it is possible to save on the cost of hiring a contractor, if you are a reasonably competent handyman. Any way you look at it, recessed medicine cabinets are the way to go.

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Dudley

Posted 623 days ago

Finding where a stud is located is not hard - just listen to the sound when you tap on the wall. And maybe the original house plans have the location of the wires and plumbing marked on them.

Adaline

Posted 690 days ago

I think I'll just stick with a wall-mounted cabinet. It sounds like quite a project just to find out what's behind the wall over your sink. How can you do that, anyway, without poking holes in the drywall?

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