Kitchen unit for bathroom vanity?

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Is there anything to stop us from using a kitchen sink base unit as a bathroom vanity? The bathroom ones are so expensive and I just had the idea.

We did this. Used grey ikea kitchen units - one cupboard in the centre and two sets of drawers (one on each side) then topped it with a white quartz worktop with the sink cut into it. It looks great and is much cheaper than the premade bathroom units plus it's much deeper so we have lots of storage.

I'll take a pic when I get home so you can see how it looks

Thank you @Titsywoo - much appreciated.

(Excuse the mess, this was taken while we were mid-build)

This is a DIY kitchens shallow (70 ish cm deep) 1m wide base unit with a shelf and two doors and the feet it comes with. On top we put a 1m Ikea slate grey bamboo worktop (thinner and lighter than a kitchen work top) and an Ideal Standard countertop sink and pedestal tap. Only one small hole for the tap and one for the sink waste. Masses of storage space, looks good, and was very cheap (delivered with the rest of our DIY kitchen order).

In previous houses we've used Ikea kitchen cabinets with laminate worktops on top. You then either cut a hold for your sink to sit in or buy a countertop sink.

3 years on and I still love it and it still looks great (bathroom cabinets always seem to peel and look a bit shit quite quickly)

That looks great - and I love your user name! If only I had thought of this when we ordered our DIY kitchen. Hell we could enough go and collect from them.

Even, not enough

Nothing stopping you at all. I did this a few years ago so I could have floor to ceiling cabinets in the bathroom. The fitter looked at me like I was daft till I explained that I didn’t want dead space above the cabinets, which I would have had if I’d used bathroom cabinets. I also used a remnant of kitchen worktop to set the basin in. I got hi gloss black from Howdens, and used crystal knobs on the doors. I love it

Here's mine

That's fab Titsy, thank you. Where's your large mirror from please?

Oh, I want to do this. All vanity units are too deep for our bathroom so Ikea's shallow base units would be perfect.

It's a Hib Globe Mirror - this is 120 wide but you can get different sizes.

Thanks Titsy.