Introduction: Bathroom Cabinet With Concealed Cavity
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About: Well, they say life begins at 30. I have recently immigrated to Australia where my Father currently runs an olive grove and vineyard in the sunny South East corner of Queensland. And I have followed in his foo…
After watching various films where they have bathroom cabinets that then swing out to reveal a secret "stash" cavity, I was then inspired to build my own!
Step 1:
First of all, I had to decide how deep the cavity was going to be without actually hacking into the wall itself! So about 3cm deep would suffice. This was also going to be a corner cabinet, so slightly more difficult to engineer.
Step 2:
The cavity depth was fine. I then needed to build the shelves etc and have them on a hinge, so the whole arrangement could swing out.
Step 3:
Once the hinging mechanism had been engineered, I then had to bolt on a swinging door, but one which wouldn't interfere with the other part of the cabinet swinging out!
Step 4:
Step 5:
And this is the finished result.
4 Comments
11 years ago on Introduction
cool idea
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Many thanks! :D
11 years ago on Introduction
Cool project! It probably wouldn't be too difficult to add a latch connected to a cable that fed to the lower cabinet so it wouldn't accidently open when someone snoopy opens your cabinet the wrong way.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Thanks very much! Yes a discreet lock would be a good bet. Or.....some sort of steel locking mechanism on the inside so that you can't see it at all. But you could slide it open from the outside using a powerful magnet, hehehe.