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Material and design problems for bathroom
cabinets
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Before you select your
bathroom cabinets, take
care to chose the right material. Some materials for cabinetry that work
in other situations and other rooms of the house are not necessarily
suitable for use in the bathroom, and if you don't foresee this it can
create problems for you down the road when the solutions will be costly
and aggravating to accomplish to remedy the problem of the wrong type of
cabinet.
For example, many kinds of cabinets are great for storing things and you
may have them in your laundry room, your kitchen, your office, or your
garage and think that they will work just as well in the bathroom. But if
the space in your bathroom is limited, you can't use cabinets that have
wide opening doors, because you may find that they don't open without
bumping into the tub or sink. In this kind of situation you may opt for
bathroom cabinets with doors that slide in tracts without taking up space,
or you may want to use cabinets that have no doors at all.
If you want to use particle board or metal for your bathroom cabinets,
first see if they will hold up under conditions that might have more
humidity and exposure to water than they do in other places in your house
like in your office. The bathroom is often not well ventilated and after
you shower, the whole room fills with steam from your bath. This can be
very comforting on a cold winter morning, to have a cloud of steam to keep
you cozy, but it might also cause your cabinets to rust. If they are made
of particle board or of untreated and unpainted wood, the moisture in the
bathroom could cause them to warp and blister, and could cause the wood to
swell so that the drawers and doors stick and won't open when you need for
them to.
Glass is a popular look for shelves because it makes the room look larger,
since it does not take up visual space. But if you use glass in the
shelves of your bathroom cabinets, keep in mind that it can break and be a
hazard. In other rooms of the house, broken glass may present less of a
problem because you have on shoes and so forth, but if glass ends up on
the floor of your bathroom where you have no shoes, it may be a real
problem for you. And, of course, if you have children in the house you may
want to consider whether or not to use glass shelves and yo may also want
to install cabinets in your bathroom that have good child proof latches on
them so that they don't accidentally get into your medicines or cleaning
products.
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