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Cr0ck1

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So when we bought our house the medicine cabinet was on the right it made no sense I have no idea why I was on the right side wall instead of being over the sink..

So my wife is been bugging me to pull out that crappy medicine cabinet and patch the wall and put a medicine cabinet over the toilet.

I went to Home Depot picked up all the materials wood stain paint and made it!

Now I have to patch the drywall texture and paint.

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mine was on the side at my old place. I liked it.
it made it easy to see your back when needed (mirror on mirror action)
 
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Depending on the layout of your bathroom and lights, you may mess up the lighting and ergonomics of the room. My parents house had the cabinet above the toilet, and standing up and finding the door is open will have you moving it back ASAP.

We ended up tucking it in to the wall, and the 3.5 inches made a lot of difference in the light that gets to the shower.
 
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I needed storage room in our bath but didn't like the look of a medicine cabinet. I increased the opening and installed a new header and rather than use a regular door, I had a custom frame made and used Chinese print we bought from 1 of our trips to Hong Kong.
 

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black00lightning said:
I needed storage room in our bath but didn't like the look of a medicine cabinet. I increased the opening and installed a new header and rather than use a regular door, I had a custom frame made and used Chinese print we bought from 1 of our trips to Hong Kong.
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Wow, I really like that, I might have to steal that idea.
 
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Thats the way ours looked. Wife just wants a clean wall to the right of mirror! "Happy wife, Happy life" lol

That does look good tho.


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Every house I've been in in Florida is the medicine cabinet off to the side the way yours was, with a mirror in the front. Normally the front mirror is much larger than a medicine cabinet. Up north my grand parents had a small medicine cabinet as the mirror.
 
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That textured finish on the wall would have me scared to try to patch it. How will you be able to blend it with the existing texture.

Perhaps you've already thought about this and have a plan or maybe others can chime in, but that would be my concern.
 
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vavet said:
That textured finish on the wall would have me scared to try to patch it. How will you be able to blend it with the existing texture.

Perhaps you've already thought about this and have a plan or maybe others can chime in, but that would be my concern.
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In case you don't know, you'll need to use a razor knife and peel out the texture and drywall paper around the perimeter of the hole. That will give you some depth to tape and re-texture & blend. You might even have to sand down a larger area to blend that texture.
 
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I would end up texturing from the wall to the door and all the way down to the counter as matching orange peel *****. Good think about the bathroom is it is small bad thing about this location is you are almost always looking at that wall parallel or 45 degree off.
 
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I made my own (about 10" deep) and used the mirror as a door on a piano hinge. Holds a lot more stuff than the old one did.
 
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I can understand why you hate spackling. You should put an even thin coat and build up the joint and feather out. You are putting it on thick some places and thin in other spots....
Maybe you should think of it as putting plastic compound on a car body, you might enjoy it more? LOL
 
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OK, is that actually spackle? Not joint compound? I have no idea what it's like elsewhere, but around here only spackle is pink...

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black00lightning said:
I needed storage room in our bath but didn't like the look of a medicine cabinet. I increased the opening and installed a new header and rather than use a regular door, I had a custom frame made and used Chinese print we bought from 1 of our trips to Hong Kong.
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I would have done this, or at minimum put in mini-shelves without the door. Get all the counter top stuff up on a shelf. In my estimation would have been less aggravation, less time, and better looking, then trying to patch that big of a hole in textured plaster.
 
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Cr0ck1 said:
Its spackle.. like i keep calling it.


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OK, was just asking because sometimes I see people refer to compound as spackle.

It isn't at all suited to that kind of application. It's for filling small holes and dents. It'll say right on the container that you can't feather it or skim coat it.

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Cr0ck1 said:
Yea. I guess next time ill get "joint compound". Thank you! You learn something new every day!!


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Yeah, sorry if I came across as just being critical, I actually made the exact same mistake the first time I tried to patch some drywall

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Cr0ck1 said:
Yea. I guess next time ill get "joint compound". Thank you! You learn something new every day!!


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I'm of the opinion you are using the right product

Joint compound seems to shrink to much in these types of applications

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OK, is that actually spackle? Not joint compound? I have no idea what it's like elsewhere, but around here only spackle is pink...

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I made the mistake of assuming people interchange the use of spackle and Joint compound. This is why I suggested that he feather out the work. MY MISTAKE.
 
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