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You can't have too much storage in a house. I would keep the medicine cabinet if it's sunk into the wall, which maximizes storage space. You're going to have a mirror there, anyway. So why not have a bit of storage behind it. Great place for extra soap, First Aid supplies, kleenex, general use medicines like Aleve, etc. It's also a good selling point, when you sell the house. It's impossible to have too much storage, as long as the doors don't get in the way of other important uses for the room.
You can get gorgeous medicine cabinets, now, at resonable prices.
Again, can't I just put all that crap in a vanity drawer?
Yes. I also assume this guest bathroom is just for dinner guests and not overnight guests so having those items people mention would be items you would have in another bathroom you could grab if needed. If you want to cover the hole cover the hole. Do what you want.
I'm remodeling the front/visitor bathroom in a one bedroom, one and a half bathroom condo.
Keep a medicine cabinet, or dry wall over the hole?
I would keep the hole but make shelves instead of a medicine cabinet. Storage is always good. For guests you could line the shelves with decorative jars and fill them with items they might need/use.
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I would keep the hole but make shelves instead of a medicine cabinet. Storage is always good. For guests you could line the shelves with decorative jars and fill them with items they might need/use.
I would keep the hole but make shelves instead of a medicine cabinet. Storage is always good. For guests you could line the shelves with decorative jars and fill them with items they might need/use.
Something like this:
I think this is the best idea in the thread! In my old house, I had the mirrored medicine cabinet on the side, with the big single mirror over the double sinks and it just looked silly. But using that space for some open shelving that was functional AND decorative would have been a great solution.
I think this is the best idea in the thread! In my old house, I had the mirrored medicine cabinet on the side, with the big single mirror over the double sinks and it just looked silly. But using that space for some open shelving that was functional AND decorative would have been a great solution.
Thanks. I love building shelves in between wall studs. There are so many options
It also looks a bit more modern as opposed to an old medicine cabinet.
If you keep your medications in a bathroom cabinet, that's the first place an intruder will look for them and they'd be stolen. I'd keep them somewhere that would take a lot of hunting to find.
If they want my blood pressure medication, hemorrhoid ointment, Campho-Phenique, Benadryl, and Band-Aids, maybe they'll just take that and leave the money in my desk drawer or the stereo equipment in the living room.
If they want my blood pressure medication, hemorrhoid ointment, Campho-Phenique, Benadryl, and Band-Aids, maybe they'll just take that and leave the money in my desk drawer or the stereo equipment in the living room.
Haha! Of course, the way the drug companies are ripping us off these days maybe the blood pressure medicine is the most expensive thing in the house these days.
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