Ahh that sucks! We have done a couple IKEA vanity door hacks now and we love them! We do it because the base cabinet is cheaper with all the sliding/mounting hardware and materials included. We also mount them first and we added a small block so that it was easily to attach new drawer faces (we have a video on it). But we also wanna build a new vanity too one of these days! 🖤
Literally was just saying 'hmm why don't we attach a strip of wood that spans the front and then attach the slab front?' BUT I hadn't made it to the hot glue hack yet- SOLD! My husband learned about using a hot glue gun to make mock ups from boat building videos and it's become hella handy for all sorts of projects around the house. Thanks for muddling through this project so we don't have to [...as much]❤
Awesome job 👏🏻. I really like final result 🤩 Not so long time ago i "hack" the Ikea Alex Desk with an plywood top to be more steady and for change the position of cable management and it work perfectly, the desk is more steady now. For the hack I used the original Cam Lock and Nut sistem with the same pattern for the holes and it work perfectly without problems, it's not hard to hack the Ikea furniture if you use the original patterns and hardware from them, but you need to have a forstner drill bit set to make it easy and accurate. 😁
I love y'all's home makeover / build/ Renos the most... Reminds me of so many successful adventures and "learning$ experiences my wife and I have had together over the past 17 yrs
I installed a different version of the same vanity / sink you all used - ran into similar issues with the plumbing - Ikea just doesn’t give you much room behind the drawers. There are other videos on UA-cam which note this concern and various hacks to work around it. I ended up having a professional plumber come in; fixtures are now slightly recessed into the wall and still just barely leave clearance for the drawers. Also had some issues with the frame racking. Seems like you need to have walls which are perfectly straight, perfectly plumb and true, and perfectly flat - a near impossibility.
i think around 2007 to 2009 _ "The Ikea Paper Desk Days ", there was a small shop in Hamburg with Ikea Look A like Furniture that was made way better, but had the same Hole & Screw Placement as the Ikea Counterpart. Nowdays you can buy Ikea Build Accessoires , to make the product better from various Online Shops
Becki & Chris, absolutely love this channel! Could you do a video on room design and mood boards? We are redoing our house now and absolutely love the mix of Reno, design and Heli vids!
Love Get Hands Dirty! I have the same in a secondary bathroom and the cutout in the drawer fell off a long time ago. Eventually it will all get replaced, hate it.
Lol when Becki says “God Morgan” making the vanity sound like a final boss. In Swedish it just means “good morning”. Funny enough if you were to pronounce it in Swedish it would be “ good moron” lol 😂
even through all that hustle it looks even greater though. have them myself in and updated them with new fronts. Just for the next time if you want to do so :D carefully removed the plastic insert and drill through the original door directly into my new one with a forstner bit so i got the perfect measurement and still maintained adjustability with the ikea system.
I have a question. I’m thinking about using these drawers in my pantry, but I can’t find what each drawer height is.. could you tell me that measurement? And do you think a full size bottle of olive oil standing up would fit. It’s approximately 13” tall.. weird question, but really need to know this 😊
This has nothing to do with your video (great video, though!) but... Becki - has anyone ever told you that you look like a grown up version of Lyanna Mormont? Forever I've been watching your videos and thinking you looked familiar and it FINALLY hit me!
1:47 This is the real meaning of confirmation bias: not so much about big belief systems but tiny systems that you've double or triple checked, yet confirmation bias continues to show everything is just fine
You should come to Sweden and visit the IKEA building academy in Älmhult and get a diploma, it's a 3 week course, where you learn the ground from chopping down the tree to assemble it to a furniture ;D
Thanks for sharing your lesson learned. Learning I am glad I saw your video...I was planning to do the same...at this point...I might build the cabinet from scratch. btw, which brand are Chris's eye glasses?
I wish I had watched your channel before buying an Ikea vanity. I just finished putting it together and realized there is a support right in the middle where the drain is. Oops. Now what?
Watching this video while wearing the same Iz Harris merch. The two of you are reno goals, even if you forget to measure thrice sometimes. :) Just decided NOT to do this to update a Besta unit in our kitchen reno and your video is confirming everything I thought might go wrong! The hot glue hack to hold the doors in alignment - brilliant. Question though, at the end of the day - would it have been easier to just veneer the IKEA door? Take a blade’s with off the top and bottom of each door to account for the width of the veneer?
The hot glue worked so good! I don’t think the veneer would stick to the high gloss finish of the original cabinet, and I wonder if it pull away with time and humidity if the base wasn’t prepped right. finishing the edges of the doors would be hard to make look right with veneer too I think!
Americans struggling with IKEA,.. a novella. ^^ Honestly though, IKEA is so easy to assemble, you usually don't need the instructions. To customise, maybe glue on some wood veneer? To make the drain matte black.. paint it matte black?
Hilarious vid (and great cinematography as always) - although if you were wanting to keep cost down couldn't you have got a nice wood effect veneer to put onto the IKEA unit? 😉 Wouldn't have been as much fun as a video though!
having a friend who works in construction. I paid him 20$ to get me a vanity from a house that was being demolished. because it was brass. and I wanted to make the half bath look industrial. problem was. I didn't consider the height difference between people back then and people now. and I'm 5'10. and this vanity was too damn low. so I made a wooden frame out of pallet wood and four cinderblocks for the corners and filled it with cement to make a base that would raise it two feet. coated the walls in cement as cheap sound insulation then painted them black. gives the walls a fun texture and got some nice brass hardware and lights. steel and wood shelves behind the toilet. but I still hold so much resentment towards that half bath. I wish I had bought something modern or built something. but messing up nice wood is so stressful especially given how much the cost of wood has gone up over the last two years. at least these two have someone there to help. my poor back lol
I don’t think it would look as good either, the edges would be difficult and would probably still need to make new doors, not sure veneer would stick to the high gloss.
It is so frustrating with Ikea. They have stuff that is really, REALLY good. And then you buy another thing to complement it and it is just garbage. And it's not even like "oh this is the expensive series and the other one is cheap". They show you how they are used together. Finish is the same. One is pressed paper with veneer on top and the other one is proper MDF. Yes - Times of real wood are mostly long gone but the quality of the MDF itself is so random at times. I think it's the "curse of well known stuff". Billy shelves were awesome. Real wood. Then they went with MDF to save costs. Still proper Fibers - the typical "construction stuff". Then one cheaper with the splinters to get the wood cheaper. Now it's glued dust. You unscrew them once or move them and everything cracks and is flimsy.
How do you open the doors? is it "push to open"? no handles? I would have made a groove with a router on the doors. IKEA "hacks" are usually just hacks. Most of my house is from IKEA, but they are a "assemble as we tell you with what we give you, otherwise... good luck"
I had a friend stitch some sayings on t shirts for my son(small like on your sweatshirt) MOM, pizza is better than an orgasm, Runs with scissors and I can’t remember the last one. She is a very religious person and had a hard time with the orgasm saying but she did it. I hope he saved them for his potential children.
Ahh that sucks! We have done a couple IKEA vanity door hacks now and we love them! We do it because the base cabinet is cheaper with all the sliding/mounting hardware and materials included. We also mount them first and we added a small block so that it was easily to attach new drawer faces (we have a video on it). But we also wanna build a new vanity too one of these days! 🖤
We should have watched your video 😂
@@BeckiandChris 🤣🤣 I don’t think it was out yet when you were doing this IRL 😂
@@LindiandRuss I’d say next time but we’re scared from doing this one 😂
Literally was just saying 'hmm why don't we attach a strip of wood that spans the front and then attach the slab front?' BUT I hadn't made it to the hot glue hack yet- SOLD! My husband learned about using a hot glue gun to make mock ups from boat building videos and it's become hella handy for all sorts of projects around the house. Thanks for muddling through this project so we don't have to [...as much]❤
Where is your UA-cam video re:attaching new drawer faces? Thanks!
Awesome job 👏🏻. I really like final result 🤩
Not so long time ago i "hack" the Ikea Alex Desk with an plywood top to be more steady and for change the position of cable management and it work perfectly, the desk is more steady now.
For the hack I used the original Cam Lock and Nut sistem with the same pattern for the holes and it work perfectly without problems, it's not hard to hack the Ikea furniture if you use the original patterns and hardware from them, but you need to have a forstner drill bit set to make it easy and accurate. 😁
I love y'all's home makeover / build/ Renos the most... Reminds me of so many successful adventures and "learning$ experiences my wife and I have had together over the past 17 yrs
"Diiiiing. A diddle diddle ding diddle ding ding ding. Diddle diddle diiiIiiIng ding diiiiing. DIIIIIIIing." - Becki P. 2022
😂
I love these videos! They show the whole emotion run of the project rather than just the positive highlights with oversimplification
OMG i love these series
2:33 is the kind of chaos that I subscribed for
I installed a different version of the same vanity / sink you all used - ran into similar issues with the plumbing - Ikea just doesn’t give you much room behind the drawers. There are other videos on UA-cam which note this concern and various hacks to work around it. I ended up having a professional plumber come in; fixtures are now slightly recessed into the wall and still just barely leave clearance for the drawers. Also had some issues with the frame racking. Seems like you need to have walls which are perfectly straight, perfectly plumb and true, and perfectly flat - a near impossibility.
Side note: Your Kitchen Pantry redo video was my inspiration for redoing my bathroom in the first place!!!
i think around 2007 to 2009 _ "The Ikea Paper Desk Days ", there was a small shop in Hamburg with Ikea Look A like Furniture that was made way better, but had the same Hole & Screw Placement as the Ikea Counterpart.
Nowdays you can buy Ikea Build Accessoires , to make the product better from various Online Shops
We love this series! Might be stealing the format... Slightly :)
Becki & Chris, absolutely love this channel! Could you do a video on room design and mood boards? We are redoing our house now and absolutely love the mix of Reno, design and Heli vids!
My Sunday special treat is here.🙌
Love Get Hands Dirty! I have the same in a secondary bathroom and the cutout in the drawer fell off a long time ago. Eventually it will all get replaced, hate it.
Lol when Becki says “God Morgan” making the vanity sound like a final boss. In Swedish it just means “good morning”. Funny enough if you were to pronounce it in Swedish it would be “ good moron” lol 😂
Hahahaha it definitely kind of felt like fighting a boss and just barely winning 😂
Well, this is peak "It's the journey, not the destination" territory. Great stuff 😂
Recently subscribed and I am hooked!! I love your videos!
Jesus H! When those drawers didn’t line up after you guys mounted it….yeah that’s when I would’ve driven my foot through the thing! Lol!
It was so frustrating 😂
even through all that hustle it looks even greater though. have them myself in and updated them with new fronts. Just for the next time if you want to do so :D carefully removed the plastic insert and drill through the original door directly into my new one with a forstner bit so i got the perfect measurement and still maintained adjustability with the ikea system.
You said "idk how a beginner would have done it"... As a beginner maself I would have done veneer over the original doors 🤔
I’m not sure the veneer would stick/last on the high gloss finish!
@@BeckiandChris You were sanding off the other fronts, so why not sand off the high gloss finish? Result looks great though!
Great video, the reno series is amazing!
Fun info incoming: The name "God morgon" is swedish for "Good morning" :)
Awesome work guys and thanks so much for sharing Deb ✌️
Lol the ideas are always the easy part!
Always!!
You have a Q Bert floor!
that genji refrence tho lol
I have a question. I’m thinking about using these drawers in my pantry, but I can’t find what each drawer height is.. could you tell me that measurement? And do you think a full size bottle of olive oil standing up would fit. It’s approximately 13” tall.. weird question, but really need to know this 😊
You guys are awesome. Thank you for all your work, and great videos
is the home reno series done?
This is why I avoid IKEA like crazy. Usually looks good, but super flimsy.
100%! They’ve got some great finds but some of them are not the best
This has nothing to do with your video (great video, though!) but... Becki - has anyone ever told you that you look like a grown up version of Lyanna Mormont? Forever I've been watching your videos and thinking you looked familiar and it FINALLY hit me!
Came for the hack. Stayed for the jokes 😂 - Thanks, guys!
1:47 This is the real meaning of confirmation bias: not so much about big belief systems but tiny systems that you've double or triple checked, yet confirmation bias continues to show everything is just fine
I was just about to do this EXACT same thing...yikes.....thanks!
It looks good but yeah it probably would have taken less time to just build it from scratch. Love the bathroom though!
You should come to Sweden and visit the IKEA building academy in Älmhult and get a diploma, it's a 3 week course, where you learn the ground from chopping down the tree to assemble it to a furniture ;D
Looks beautiful ya rock
Wasn't there a way to just add a wooden layer on front of the drawers that came with the IKEA cabinet?
Becki comes up with a "easy idea", Chris has nightmares.
Hey it wasn’t all me! 😂
Thanks for sharing your lesson learned. Learning I am glad I saw your video...I was planning to do the same...at this point...I might build the cabinet from scratch. btw, which brand are Chris's eye glasses?
I wish I had watched your channel before buying an Ikea vanity. I just finished putting it together and realized there is a support right in the middle where the drain is. Oops. Now what?
This was painful to watch haha. I have this vanity too and felt the pain all the way through.
Watching this video while wearing the same Iz Harris merch. The two of you are reno goals, even if you forget to measure thrice sometimes. :) Just decided NOT to do this to update a Besta unit in our kitchen reno and your video is confirming everything I thought might go wrong! The hot glue hack to hold the doors in alignment - brilliant.
Question though, at the end of the day - would it have been easier to just veneer the IKEA door? Take a blade’s with off the top and bottom of each door to account for the width of the veneer?
The hot glue worked so good! I don’t think the veneer would stick to the high gloss finish of the original cabinet, and I wonder if it pull away with time and humidity if the base wasn’t prepped right. finishing the edges of the doors would be hard to make look right with veneer too I think!
Good point - the humidity definitely would have impacted any veneer… Loving this content right now - thanks and keep it up!
10:53 the answer: not well 🤪
Americans struggling with IKEA,.. a novella. ^^
Honestly though, IKEA is so easy to assemble, you usually don't need the instructions.
To customise, maybe glue on some wood veneer?
To make the drain matte black.. paint it matte black?
Hilarious vid (and great cinematography as always) - although if you were wanting to keep cost down couldn't you have got a nice wood effect veneer to put onto the IKEA unit? 😉 Wouldn't have been as much fun as a video though!
Thanks! I don’t think Veneer would have stuck to the high gloss doors!
@@BeckiandChris yep good point although maybe could have been sanded down first? As I say wouldn't have made for such a good video though 😂
Hey. Just wondering why you guys choose Ryobi tools? Not Makita or others. Cuz clearly Chris likes fancy tools. 🤣
having a friend who works in construction. I paid him 20$ to get me a vanity from a house that was being demolished. because it was brass. and I wanted to make the half bath look industrial. problem was. I didn't consider the height difference between people back then and people now. and I'm 5'10. and this vanity was too damn low. so I made a wooden frame out of pallet wood and four cinderblocks for the corners and filled it with cement to make a base that would raise it two feet.
coated the walls in cement as cheap sound insulation then painted them black. gives the walls a fun texture and got some nice brass hardware and lights. steel and wood shelves behind the toilet. but I still hold so much resentment towards that half bath. I wish I had bought something modern or built something. but messing up nice wood is so stressful especially given how much the cost of wood has gone up over the last two years. at least these two have someone there to help. my poor back lol
There are companies that make better looking drawer fronts to fit IKEA stuff. Next time...
You could have squared the drawer with a front plane and then attached the door 🤔
Ryobi gang🤙🏼🤙🏼
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Doors? Doors? I was much confused. Drawers don’t have “doors”...those are “drawer fronts”. Doors have hinges, and much like myself...swing.
I guess an easier option would be putting a veneer on top of the original cabinets granted that’s not recycling your existing materials
I don’t think it would look as good either, the edges would be difficult and would probably still need to make new doors, not sure veneer would stick to the high gloss.
@@BeckiandChris That definitely makes senes
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It is so frustrating with Ikea.
They have stuff that is really, REALLY good. And then you buy another thing to complement it and it is just garbage.
And it's not even like "oh this is the expensive series and the other one is cheap". They show you how they are used together. Finish is the same. One is pressed paper with veneer on top and the other one is proper MDF. Yes - Times of real wood are mostly long gone but the quality of the MDF itself is so random at times.
I think it's the "curse of well known stuff". Billy shelves were awesome. Real wood. Then they went with MDF to save costs. Still proper Fibers - the typical "construction stuff". Then one cheaper with the splinters to get the wood cheaper. Now it's glued dust. You unscrew them once or move them and everything cracks and is flimsy.
How do you open the doors? is it "push to open"? no handles? I would have made a groove with a router on the doors.
IKEA "hacks" are usually just hacks. Most of my house is from IKEA, but they are a "assemble as we tell you with what we give you, otherwise... good luck"
Beginning: "Here is how to customize your Ikea vanity."
End: "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT customize your Ikea vanity."
I had a friend stitch some sayings on t shirts for my son(small like on your sweatshirt) MOM, pizza is better than an orgasm, Runs with scissors and I can’t remember the last one. She is a very religious person and had a hard time with the orgasm saying but she did it. I hope he saved them for his potential children.
Chris you look like my science teacher. And she is SHEEE 😄🤍
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