Bathroom cabinet with laundry basket: dimensions and design

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Bathroom cabinet with built-in laundry baskets
  • Pros
  • Types
  • Materials
  • Popular sizes
  • Design
  • How to choose?
  • How to install?

The bathroom is one of the most frequented places in the house. Despite this, as a rule, for her a small space is allocated. How to arrange this room so that it was both pleasant and convenient to carry out hygiene procedures at the same time? There are many ways to rationally equip the bathroom. In this very well help multifunctional pedestals. One of these types of pedestals is a curbstone with a built-in sink and a laundry basket. The door, with a built-in inside the cabinet, is opened with a special net for the laundry not from the side, like the usual lockers of the cabinet, but folds from above.

Wooden bedside table with a tamper in the bathroom and a built-in laundry basket

Advantages of

Advantages of such furniture are obvious:

  1. It takes up a minimum of space, while simultaneously there are also a washbasin, a laundry basket and a locker for storing all kinds of items.
  2. The need to buy a separate laundry basket, which is usually difficult to pick up under the interior disappears.
  3. Besides in baskets it is possible to store not only dirty linen, but also clean linen, towels, dressing gowns, etc.
  4. Dirty linen in a prominent place does not always look beautiful and aesthetic, it will be much nicer to hide its curb.
  5. The cabinet under the washbasin can contain many necessary and useful items of hygiene, cosmetics and household chemicals.

Despite the fact that the laundry basket installed inside the pedestals is small in size, its advantages do not decrease. Therefore, recently it is gaining increasing popularity.

Cabinet in the bathroom with a basket for dirty laundry
Cabinet in the bathroom with a wide basket under the dirty laundry

Types

Sides with a sink can be distinguished by several criteria:

  • in shape;
  • by the installation method;
  • for functionality;
  • in size;
  • by color;
  • by cost.

The shape of the curbstone with the sink can be rectangular, oval, square, non-standard( asymmetric) and angular. From the point of view of saving space, the most optimal warrant is a corner cabinet with a sink.

Semicircular cabinet with built-in sink and laundry basket
Cabinet with laundry sink and built-in laundry basket

Depending on the installation method, two main groups of furniture with a washbasin are distinguished: floor and wall( or suspended).The first group is easy to assemble and put in the right place, and the second group needs to be attached to the wall. The pedestals stand on legs or on a monolithic frame.

Suspended curbstone with sink and laundry basket

The set of functions at the curbstone with the sink depends on the number of departments, that is, the lockers, drawers and the door provided for in it. Today, furniture manufacturers offer a variety of options. So, for example, there are cupboards with a sink under the washing machine, with a basket for laundry, with drawers, etc. In addition, there are options with open shelves, where you can put a shallow laundry basket or fold clean towels. The cabinets can be equipped with one or two doors. For small rooms, it is better to take two-door tables, since in this case less space will be required to open the door than for one large door. Also it should be noted that in many cupboards the sink is installed on the countertop, which in turn is mounted in the curb. The worktop provides a comfortable working surface and thus performs additional functions.

Bathroom furniture - curbstone with sink and pencil case with laundry basket
Cupboard with sink, laundry basket
Corner cabinet with sink and laundry basket

In

's Content

Bathroom furniture should be characterized by high moisture resistance. It largely depends on the materials of which it is made, the way and quality of their processing. The cabinets are usually made of chipboard, MDF and fiberboard. By themselves, these materials are quality and durable, but without special coating they can not serve a long time in a room with high humidity. Therefore, when buying furniture for the bathroom, first of all, pay attention to the quality of the surface treatment of furniture. On the surface of the furniture there must be a special laminating film. It is she who protects furniture from water and moisture. In addition, the surface of the furniture is painted. Therefore, pay attention to the fact that the paint was lying flat on the entire surface. The presence of unpainted or repainted sites relates the product to a marriage.

Cabinet of black chipboard for the bathroom with two baskets for linen
Bathroom cabinet with three drawers for sorting dirty laundry

Handles, feet and fasteners must be made of chrome-plated steel. Since the metal fittings serve much longer than the plastic counterpart. It will look good if it is combined with a faucet, with hooks or rings for towels, and also with a lamp.

A curbstone with an overhead sink and built-in laundry baskets

Popular sizes

Among all models of pedestals with a sink and laundry basket, very popular are pedestals with a width of 50 to 60 cm, a height of 70 to 84 cm and a depth of 30 to 40 cm.

White standard cabinet of MDF with sink and laundry basket

Design

The design and color of the cabinet with a washbasin should be in harmonywith a common style and color decoration of the bathroom.

The use of strict rectangular models for a room with numerous smooth lines and rounded shapes will look at least inappropriate. Such furniture will immediately be knocked out of the general background. For the interior in the style of classicism will be appropriate to the cabinet of solid wood with carvings, gilded, silver or bronze plumbing and fittings.

With the choice of color, things are not as simple as it might seem at first glance, since the selection of furniture for the color of the walls of the room will look too boring or on the contrary too provocative. The color contrasting with the color of the walls of the room itself does not guarantee a beautiful design, because not all shades are combined with each other. In the furniture market, very often you can find furniture with a white washbasin. White color is universal and it is easy to fit into different styles of interior.

MDF cabinet with wood coloring with white boxes and built-in laundry basket
Beige bedside table with built-in sink and laundry basket

How to choose?

When buying a cabinet with a bathroom sink, follow these guidelines to help you get the right furniture and plumbing of good quality:

  1. Make sure that the selected bathroom furniture fits the size.
  2. Note the level of moisture resistance of furniture. To do this, check that the paint was applied evenly, there were no streaks and scratches, including on the sink. Remember that it is a special film that protects furniture from water and moisture. Made from natural wood and MDF furniture is characterized by greater moisture resistance and a longer service life. However, the curbstone from the chipboard is somewhat cheaper.
  3. Check the hardware of the product for durability. It is better that it was made of chrome-plated steel. Handles, legs and hinges made of plastic and covered with silver or gold dust, after a short period of time will spend their initial external qualities.
  4. In order to make sure there are no cracks, chips and scratches on the sink, tap on it. A loud sound indicates their absence.
  5. Remember that if you buy a dark color box, you will have to wipe it more often, since the traces of streaks immediately become visible on the dark furniture. On the curbstones of lighter tones, smudges will be less visible, therefore from the point of view of washing the curbstone, they are considered more practical.
Cabinet with built-in sink with pull-out laundry basket and drawer for bath accessories
Cabinet of dark color for the bathroom with a pull-out laundry basket
Cabinet in the bathroom with three plastic baskets for sorting dirty laundry

How to install?

It's not as difficult to install a ready-made cabinet with a sink by yourself, as it might seem at first glance. Carefully following all the steps and rules, you can easily and successfully carry out the installation of thumbnails of all sizes and shapes.

  • Select the installation location. A new cabinet with a sink can be installed in place of the old washbasin or in a new place. Determination of the place under the sink and the tub of any kind is best done at the stage of preliminary planning of the bathroom. Otherwise, the installation of a cabinet with a sink will require additional costs of materials and efforts. The installation site of the curbstone with the washbasin must match the size of the product, if you have already decided on the furniture. But it is much better and more reasonable to decide first with a place, to measure the width and depth of the intended place, and only then to acquire the long-awaited furniture.
  • Water supply and sewerage systems. If you decide to install a sink with a sink in a new place, conduct all communications - hot and cold water, as well as a sewer pipe.
  • Preparation of furniture, sanitary ware, tools and spare parts. If the cabinet is not assembled, unpack it and assemble it according to the instructions. Then prepare all the necessary tools, screws and other details. When assembling the cube, make sure that each screw and cog is as tight as possible. Since after mounting the thumbs to the installation site, it will be more difficult to fix unreliable nodes, and somewhere else it will not work at all.
  • Implementation of markings. After the assembly and preparation phase, it is necessary to make markings on the wall if there is a need to attach a sink or cabinet to the wall. If you are installing a suspended cabinet, then you can not do without the help of additional hands. Decide on the height of the washbasin and place crosses where you will make holes to fix the product. Verify the accuracy of the markings. To do this, you can attach or push the cabinet with the sink to the wall and check the markings on the wall with holes on the sink.
  • Installation of a cabinet with a sink. Install the mixer on the surface of the sink or cabinet. Connect the water pipes to it. Specialists in the field of sanitary engineering are advised to take corrugated pipes made of stainless steel, or from plastic, but from proven manufacturers. Then screw the siphon and drill the holes in the marked places on the wall. Install the cabinet in the selected location and connect the sewer and water supply pipes.
  • System health check. After installing the cabinet with the sink and connecting all the systems, make sure that the design is installed reliably and there are no leaks, and when hot water is turned on it is hot, when the cold starts it is cold.
Installation of a curbstone with a sink and a laundry basket
Cabinet with sink and laundry basket

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