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I'm planning on renovating our bathroom and need to replace our old 1950's cabinet. Can anyone reccomend me a place I can buy a tall medicine cabinet? (68-75 inches in height and about 15" width). My contractor suggested Robern, but the cheapest they have is about two grand. I was hoping there is something out there for a less.
Is this an inset medicine cabinet? If so, why not just have your contractor modify the existing hole to fit the new cabinet of your choice rather than trying to exactly match the dimensions of your old cabinet?
I would use a standard box cabinet from any manufacturer. No need to to stick with just specialized medicine cabinet. If you need mirror any glass shop can create something that'll work.
$2k seems about three times what I would budget for something like this.
Is this an inset medicine cabinet? If so, why not just have your contractor modify the existing hole to fit the new cabinet of your choice rather than trying to exactly match the dimensions of your old cabinet?
It is inset and we can modify the existing hole. It's just trying to find something to put in the hole that is challenging. We found some kitchen cabinets that we can put in there but it doesn't have the shelving we'd like or a mirror.
I guess another option is to have our contractor do some carpentry and make something custom.
That is the biggest medicine cabinet I ever heard of and certainly the most expensive on the face of the earth. I'd almost bet there is no such thing.
It is an oddball size so you can't buy an industry standard cabinet, nor will any major manufacturer modify one to that size. I can't even think of something in any catalog I have to modify to that.
A medicine cabinet is to put bottles that you don't want little kids to get at. At 75" tall that thing is pretty close to the floor. Not sure why you want to do this. If you must, your only choice is to have a skilled cabinet maker or skilled contractor make you one. Good luck with that challenge. It's rare to find skills out there anymore. For every 100 people who call themselves contractors, 99 are quacks.
I have seen dozens of Chicago bungalows that have a cabinet like the one the OP is describing. It is smaller than a true linen closet but serves the same function -- bath towels, toilet paper, sundry home health devices stored on lower shelves, shampoo and hair care items on the middle shelf and actual remedies / prescriptions up at eye level. Up top maybe a souvenir bed pan from a long ago hospital stay!
Any halfway decent trim carpenter can setup a *** to drill equally spaced holes in MDF for sides to support shelf. A few dollars worth of hardware will suffice for brackets and hinges. Glass shop will mount mirror to cabinet front. A couple a hundred worth of material and maye two times that for labor / shop time and the hole bill ought not be over $700...
Typical location of this cabinet in the bath of Chicago style bungalow would be in wall that the bathtub is on, positioned so that the door back to the hallway would block it when open. That wall would also hide access to the plumbing stack, so that if (when???) old galvanized pipes would need to be repaired / replaced the whole shebang was fairly easy to remove and reinstall...
How deep can you go? If 12" is possible, then get a 15" wide, shallow depth high cabinet (lop 5" off the height), and inset the whole cabinet in the opening ... http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S59869786
If I search Google, I pretty much just get these types of hits. Never thought about IKEA. That looks like a good option. Will visit the store this weekend. Just have to figure out a way to get it fastened into the wall. Don't know what is behind the cabinet, but am hoping it is just open space with no plumbing or electrical. Probably use the method Chet describes to secure it.
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