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Greetings friends!
Welcome to the kingdom of home improvement
where today I'm going to show you how to take a dilapidated vanity and turn it in to something
worthy of your royal throne room.
Sorry we just got a green screen and were having a bit of fun.
But as you see here this is how the vanity started out.
It is not really in that great of shape
need some attention, had some detached doors
with some nice detailing on them. So I am just going to
rip out the back the vanity and I left
it without a back on it. I figured it'd be easier to hook up to the hoses
without one.
And then I just
swept out the dust and spider webs
it did come with the sink there and it did have old
caulking around the rim so I pried that off
using a flat head screwdriver
And then I gave it a good scrub.
It looks like a nice little sink
I applied more caulking
and then placed it where I wanted it to go
the 20-pound weight held it in
and then I rubbed off the excess
caulking with a paper towel
This is how I'm going to keep the sink in.
I'm going to hold it into place
The board that I'm holding it with doesn't touch the top fully.
you don't want it have any wiggle room so I'm going to add those little metal
brackets
so that the sink can't move
can't fall down
Now I'm attaching the wood slats
with the metal brackets and having a really
tough time. If you were going to have me do it I wish you would of had me start it.
Coco does some odd things.
I wasn't going to have you do it but then I ran in to troubles.
When you are working with wood you need to use wood screws
and it should go into the wood
like that
screws were too long and they were hitting the bottom of the granite
so make sure your screws are the right size.
It took a lot of prompting to get Craig to say that on camera.
H didn't want to sound like a know it all.
It helps though, he has a lot of good knowledge. You can see how he
reinforced the sink with a board
Because just those wood slats wouldn't hold in the sink over time.
So I'm just applying some wood glue to the
detached door to make sure that it is a very secure, solid door.
and then I tap it in with a hammer.
The wood was so tough that I needed to drill
in more holes there were already pre-drilled holes in it
and there you see is Sir Nibbles taking a nap in the grass.
and then I did a
varnish coating on it it was just
and very light varnish
it said it would give it a warm glow
a very light varnish
I think that it turned out so pretty. And the doors
when attached properly they worked
very well. I needed to put a bottom
on the vanity so here i am.
marking out where I need to cut
it and I'm going to you cut-out the basic
rectangle before I worry about corners
and the back
And the back piece I'm just adding some wood glue
to make it stable.
and before you cut be sure to use your glasses
and your gloves so that you end up
keeping both your fingers and your eyes.
I have the board set up and ready to cut.
the 20-pound weight to hold it steady
while I do it
I made the basic rectangle and now am seeing where about I need to cut the corners.
There I am measuring the corners
and just marking them off there.
you might need to make several cuts because even though you measure
a couple times it never seems to work out
perfectly. That is the
slot where the center bar will go through
and so I'm just demonstrating that you can
sweep your saw back and forth and then
it'll make the indentation like that said that
There is the finished vanity i think is gorgeous
so happy with it and thats the shot of some of the
details on the vanity. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to subscribe!