Make Your Own Vessel Sink Bowl

She wrote up a how to 5 months after its installation just to make sure it held up.

Make your own vessel sink bowl. Remove the bowl make another pilot hole and use the steel hole saw to cut the drain hole out of the vanity. Bowls used as sinks or vessel sinks as they are known in the interior design trade are a hot trend in home design and can add a stylish and contemporary twist to traditional bathroom basins. Attach the sink drain check your cuts by placing the bowl and drain assembly on the counter to make sure everything lines up. The pipe will come up from the pedestal and fit inside the hole in the bowl.

To make the vessel sink we used a serving bowl a chrome pipe kit similar to this and sink drain. The sink itself needs to have a water filter but to do this you need to make a hole. Jill bought a bamboo 20 bowl at world market and turned it into a lovely vessel sink. Center the bowl on the countertop and mark its location as well as the drain hole location.

If you decide to install a bowl as a sink there are a few important factors to keep in mind before installation. Jan 6 2013 another view of copper vessel sink originally uploaded by gimbler taking a break from re arranging furniture and thinking back to a fu. An ikea hacker turned a 15 blanda blank salad bowl into a vessel sink. Ginger used a resin bowl to make her vessel sink.

Choose a masonry drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the pipe.