How to Build a Bathroom Sink Cabinet

If you could use a new bathroom cabinet, you have a few choices.

1. You could go to one of the big box home centers and buy a pretty inexpensive pre-built, uniform-sized cabinet made of particle board that might last five years.

2. At the same store, you could spend a whole lot more for a much better cabinet, one that would be custom made for the space you have available in your bathroom. Some of these cabinets are pretty well-built, but they certainly don't come cheap.

3. For about the price of the cheap cabinet, you could put your woodworking skills to good use and build a cabinet that is at least as good in quality as the expensive model. And, you'd be able to brag to all of your friends that you built it yourself.

In this set of free woodworking plans, we walk you through building your own bathroom cabinet. These cabinet plans are designed to be a bit larger than a standard bathroom sink cabinet, but it has a large dovetailed drawer (a feature that you'd rarely find even in the high-end bathroom cabinets above) beneath the main cabinet space, and will accept a 36" x 24" sink and countertop.

It may seem like a lot, but this is really a pretty easy project to build. It includes an eight-page set of free woodworking plans that you can download, with detailed drawings and a bill of materials for all of the parts you need to build your own bathroom sink cabinet.

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