Need very small vanity for tiny bathroom. Have searched but

[Paper Roses]

cannot find anything smaller than 19" deep by 24" wide available at HD. (wood finish-double panel door,faux drawer, straight to floor, $169.00)) Must be very traditional in design, prefer pine color. I like the HD model but need something even smaller. It is only 20" from the edge of an open door to the sink wall. Anyone have any ideas?

Current arrangement was mickey-moused by plummer years ago and I need to change things. I removed the porcelain pedestal so I could lift a section of screwed in flooring to do some under the floor insulation and will not be putting it back (it was a bear to remove). Now the sink is securely attached to the wall but the drain does not properly align with the trap.

I'm hoping to find a small vanity, and with proper plumbing, that things will align. I can't look at the jury rig I have now as a temporary fix-it.

Thanks for any help.

BTW, what in the distance from the center of the trap opening to the wall? Is it standard?

[NMDemDist2]

1. here's a 20" deep decorative vanity, but there's not much storage

http://www.homedecorators.com/P/Florentine_Vanity_Sink_with_Brown_Marble/130/



here's another one, a bit smaller

http://www.homedecorators.com/P/Amanda_Column_Sink_Cabinet/820/



and still one more, but it is 20.5 deep

http://www.homedecorators.com/P/26W_Craftsman_Single_Sink_Cabinet/540/

[Warpy]

2. Think outside the box (literally)

and consider going to used furniture stores and picking up a cabinet or even small table that will fit the space. I'm not fond of vessel sinks, but this is a great place to put one.

You'll get high marks for trendiness when you sell the house.

[Mist]

3. IKEA has one that's only 15" deep:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30137718

Check around further at IKEA--they're used to designing for small spaces (European bathrooms can be miniscule.)

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

4. In yer bottom line question

are you asking about the plumb out ? Hight is standard or it is supposed to be. Sometimes the drain line is flush with the wall, sometimes there may be as much as three inch's sticking out of the wall. Yer p trap drain in is cut /tailored to fit the plumb out as it is. You can also turn the trap too when yer connection is off set.Plumbing perfect is straight in and in straight lines, but you can turn the p trap.It will still drain. I know Lowe's and home depot sell small vanity's with sink to match . Sometimes in stock or you can order one. Those small vanity's are very reasonably priced too! Since yer in no hurry !


Good luck with your project !

[SoCalDem]

5. Call around to cabinet shops in your area & ask if they have any rejects

Often they make cabinets for jobs that are not correct in size, and they just sit around gathering dust..

My husband's workplace (cabinet mfg) always has "leftovers"..often they are free or damned cheap.. or if you know someone there they might even be able to make you a specific one for less than you could buy a junky one online or at a discount place.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Get a cabinet and cut it up and down the sides to the depth you want.

Render any drawers useless by fixing the front to the face frame. Leave it backless, it won't matter apart from putting in a few wood blocks with which to fasten it to the wall. Have a marble or granite top made. it will be very cheap. Or make a top yourself and tile it with granite tiles (*very* cheap) and drop a sink it it.

We have a similar situation in the renatl we're renovating right now. The cut down vanity looks terrific and the sink top fits nicely.

[CTyankee]

7. I ended up with just a small pedestal. I store tp in a small cannister by the

toilet. I put extra hand towels rolled in a verdigris metal container along with some nice, small soaps (I collect the ones I get when I travel). I put a small shelf from Pottery Barn on the wall behind the toilet with a pretty candle and some good potpouri (not the cheap stuff) on it. The former owners of the house put mirror panels above the wainscoting on two sides, giving the impression of space. On the other two sides, I used a soft cream color above the wainscoting, a soft dusty green on the bottom. On the tiny window I put a mahogany slat blind (matches the mahogany shelf) and on the blank wall next to the door I put a couple of small prints of scenes from a beautiful town on the Door Peninsula (done by a local artist), in slender mahogany frames. It's a pretty, if tiny, powder room that I felt couldn't be too frilly since it is next to the kitchen in my 1941 Colonial style New England house...

[Paper Roses]

8. Good to see this pop up again. I cured the problem with the sink mentioned

in the initial post. This spring I am doing the other bathroom which has problems of its own. First, you must all know that when we bought our house(40 yrs ago) it was condemned and my husband and I rebuilt everything we could. The bathroom work by the plumbers was always terrible but we have had other things to contend with. Our upstairs bath could win an award as the worlds ugliest. Everything works but it is just plain ugly. The drain and trap look like some screwy figure 8. Seems the pipes were put in at the wrong point so that the sink drain and the connecting drain to the trap did not align. We have elbows that should not be there. There might be some soldering needed and I don't know how to so that.

The geniuses that did the work also sent the H & C intake pipes through a rear wall, then a right angle into the H&C feeds to the ovewrsized sink. I'm always afraid it will freeze. We have never put a permanent floor in because we were afraid someday we'd have to get access to those pipes. I'm sick of looking at bathroom carpet.

I'd love to pull down all the tiles(ugly avocado), redo the tub area, wainscot the walls at the bottom and fix the sink with proper plumbing. Then I can plaster the upper level. I wonder if I'll live long enough? Sure as I tried something like this, I'd do more damage than good. Can't afford a plummer. I'm on Soc. Sec. They get $90 an hour.

Gotta love old age and old houses.