How to make a toilet cabinet with your hands. We make a closet in the toilet with our own hands. The main advantages of cabinets behind the toilet

How to close the pipes in the toilet so that it is both beautiful and practical - this task has to be solved by everyone who makes repairs to the bathroom. We will talk about the main options for building a closet in the toilet with our own hands.

By erecting a sanitary cabinet in the toilet behind, we solve several conflicting tasks:

Close the pipes in the toilet. The view of common house risers is rarely aesthetic. Often they are ugly welded, ugly, perpetually sweating pipes.
Arrange in the free space behind the toilet a few shelves for storing stocks of toilet paper and the like.
At the same time, maintain access to pipes for possible repairs, for installation and maintenance of water meters. And in general: you never know! ..

The fundamental technical solution of such a cabinet is obvious: a wall is erected behind the toilet bowl, in which an opening of a larger or smaller size is left. The wall is most often trimmed with the same material as the entire toilet, and the opening is closed with some kind of door.

Let's take a closer look at the most common options ...

Louvre doors for cabinets

A frame is assembled from standard drywall profiles and sheathed in one layer with moisture-resistant drywall. The surface is tiled with ceramic tiles along with the rest of the walls. In the middle of this partition, a rectangular opening is left 2-3 cm smaller than the wooden louvered door purchased in advance. The door is mounted on suitable hinges over the hole.

Pros:

Low cost shutter doors.
The cabinet door is installed over the opening, so it easily hides dimensional inaccuracies and other flaws.
Such work will be performed by a master of even the most low-skilled.

Minuses:

The louvered door on the tile looks out of place and inharmonious. Especially if it does not match the color of the surrounding tiles.
For good access to the equipment inside the cabinet and to the shelves, such an opening is too small.

Plastic plumbing hatch

Plumbing hatches come in a variety of sizes. Any manufacturer produces a whole line of hatches with a pitch of 5 cm. Thanks to this, you have the opportunity not only to make access to the interior of the plumbing cabinet more spacious, but also to choose the size of the plumbing hatch so that it matches the seams in the ceramic cladding.

The sanitary hatch represents a frame from a metal corner with a door. Usually they are sold in white, but today there are more and more offers on the market to paint the hatch in the desired color for an additional fee.

Making a wall for installing a sanitary hatch into it is no different from the option with a louvered door: the same frame made of profiles and drywall. Once the ceramic tiling is complete, the manhole frame is glued into place with sealant or any other suitable adhesive.

Pros:

Large selection of all sizes.
Easy cabinet making.
"Universal" white color, in harmony with the color of sanitary faience.

Minuses:

Some "fragility", which is not to everyone's taste.
Simplicity of appearance.

Custom cabinet doors

In this case, the toilet is finished without regard to the dimensions of the commercially available ready-made doors for the sanitary cabinet.

The master makes the wall behind the toilet, guided by the design intent. For example, as in the photo: the closet in the bathroom is made from wall to wall, and from seam to seam.

After the completion of the tiling work, the exact dimensions of the left opening are taken and the necessary details of the future cabinet are ordered in a suitable workshop strictly according to the measure.

Pros:

Dimensions do not limit the design intent.
Wardrobe "furniture" quality.
The widest possible access to risers and wiring.

Minuses:

Really expensive.
It takes a long time to produce parts (sometimes up to several weeks).
You will have to look for a workshop in which custom-made cabinet doors will be made.

Sanitary hatch under the tile

Such hatches are also called "hidden tile-mounted hatches".

This option is technically the most difficult. And costly. You will have to pay both for the plumbing hatch itself and for its installation.

The hatch under a tile represents a rigid aluminum or steel frame in which the door from a material suitable for tiling is built on special hinges. The hinges must not sag under the weight of the glued tiles, so special requirements are placed on their design.

The hatch is built into the frame of the rear wall of the toilet so that after facing the partition with drywall, a single plane is obtained. The entire surface is tiled.

The dimensions of the hatch are selected based on the size of the tiles. In our photo, the hatch is finished with patterned tiles: it is clearly seen that the borders of the plumbing hatch exactly match the tile seams on the rest of the wall surface.

To open the hatch, you must first pull it out of the plane of the wall (pay attention to the convenient handle), and then take it to the side on the hinges. We talk in more detail about the design of such hatches and their installation in other articles on our website.

Pros:

Stealth.
Spacious access to the inside of the sanitary cabinet.
All kinds of sizes.

Minuses:

The high price of the hatch itself and expensive installation.
You need a high quality craftsman.
Opening the hatch requires caution. Don't open often.
The design of the hatch is relatively bulky "in depth". In some cases, this may interfere with its installation.

Full height wooden cabinet

In conclusion of this review, we propose to consider the design of the closet in the toilet, which, if necessary, can be quickly and completely disassembled.

Look carefully at the photo.

The walls of the toilet are lined with amber-yellow tiles. For the manufacture of the rear wall behind the toilet and the doors of the sanitary cabinet, spruce furniture panels 18 mm thick were used.

The edges of the doors are rounded with the help of figured milling, decorative grooves are also selected on the front surface with the help of milling cutters. All wooden parts are covered with several layers of waterproof parquet varnish.

The color scheme of the resulting doors blends perfectly with the color of the tiles on the walls.

The doors hang on standard furniture hinges. If necessary, they can be removed in a couple of minutes. After that, the shield behind the toilet is pulled up. A small wall under the ceiling does not hurt to make even a complete replacement of the risers.

Pros:

The ability to quickly disassemble and assemble the cabinet if necessary.
Maximum access to risers.
Savings on materials: no need to make a wall of drywall and tile it.

Minuses:

Wooden construction is not for everyone.
A carpenter is needed to make parts.

We analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of five options for arranging a bathroom cabinet. Of course, there are other solutions as well.

Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each and make an informed choice of the best cabinet for your toilet. Or come up with your own.

One of the main problems of a city apartment is the eternal lack of space. Countless detergents, tools, screws, nails, spare faucets to the faucet and other household trifles quickly fill cabinets and shelves. Today we will look at some simple toilet cabinet designs that can partially solve this problem.

Wishes

Ideally, any homemade cabinet above the toilet should meet a few simple requirements.

The depth of the structure should be minimal. Places in the toilet and so little; our goal is to use the niche behind the tank to good use, and not to deprive ourselves of the remnants of comfort.
The design must be moisture resistant. Humidity in the bathroom is always slightly higher than the average for the apartment due to the evaporation of moisture in the toilet bowl and cistern.

In addition: the toilet, bathroom and kitchen are more likely than other rooms to be flooded in case of accidents.
It is desirable that the next incident does not force the owner to make major repairs.

Finally, the closet above the toilet should not block access to the risers located in the niche.. In the same place, valves are often hidden that block the water to the apartment, and coarse filters. In houses where hot water is not distributed centrally or is supplied intermittently, a boiler or instantaneous water heater is often located in the same niche.

Materials and Solutions

What can be done with a minimum investment of time, effort and money to build a cabinet in the toilet behind the toilet with your own hands?

Let's offer some simple solutions.

Drywall

From moisture-resistant drywall, you can make very aesthetic open shelves.

The frame is assembled from a galvanized profile; the order of further work is quite traditional for GKL structures:

Drywall parts cut to size are hemmed to the frame with self-tapping screws 25 mm long. To cut drywall, you can use a jigsaw, or you can simply break off the sheet by cutting it with a sharp knife by a third of its thickness.

The seams and caps of self-tapping screws are puttied with gypsum putty (ABC, Fugenfüller) twice with intermediate drying.
Then the seams are roughly rubbed with a grinding mesh and swept from dust, after which the entire surface of the gypsum board is primed with a penetrating primer.
The next step is reinforcing the seams. In the humble opinion of the author, for this purpose it is better to use not a sickle, but rolled fiberglass: with sufficient strength, it will make the seam less noticeable and allow you to do without the additional cost of putty for leveling. Fiberglass is glued to PVA slightly diluted with water.
After the reinforcement has dried, the seams are puttied again with the thinnest possible layer of gypsum, “on the peel”, sanded with a mesh, swept over and primed.

How can I finish the drywall shelves in the toilet behind the toilet?

Structural element	Finishing method
Upper horizontal surfaces	Tile. It is cut to size with a diamond disc and sits on ordinary tile adhesive; seams are rubbed with any colored grout
Vertical and lower horizontal surfaces	Waterproofing (rubber) water emulsion. It is applied in three coats with a brush or roller. It is better to wipe off stains on tiles immediately: rubber dye is very resistant; the author successfully used it to paint the steps on the street stairs
corners	It is better to glue them with a PVC corner on silicone sealant. Galvanized or plastic corner profiles laid under putty will quickly lose their neat appearance

Plywood

A very strong and durable closet behind the toilet in the toilet can be made of plywood.

The specific design will be prompted to the reader by his creative talent; the author will focus on the technical problems of construction.

It is better to use FC plywood with a thickness of 15 millimeters. More moisture resistant PSF is not suitable for residential premises due to the composition of the adhesive: it contains phenol formaldehyde.

Shelves up to half a meter long do not need stiffeners and can be mounted on galvanized corners screwed to the walls with dowel screws. Longer shelves are best reinforced with vertical ribs cut from the same plywood. Rib width - about 50 mm; it can be launched along the near or far edge of the shelf.
For cutting plywood, it is better to use a circular saw. Jigsaw cuts will always be less straight. Guide the saw along the cut should be slow: this way there will be much less burrs.
Elongated parts are marked on the sheet in such a way that their longer edges on the front side are parallel to the veneer fibers in the surface layer. The reason is again in the edges of the cut: when cutting along the fibers, there will be no untidy scuffs and raised chips.
Thick plywood can be butt-jointed with 45x4 mm self-tapping screws. The part that is fixed flat is pre-drilled with a 4 mm drill bit; the end of the second part is drilled with a diameter of 3 mm to a depth of 30 millimeters. Don't forget to countersink the hole to hide the screw head.
Alkyd-urethane-based parquet varnish can be used as a protective and decorative coating. It is applied in three to five thin layers with intermediate drying. Before applying the first layer and after it has dried, the parts must be sanded: FK plywood initially has a far from ideal surface; varnishing will raise the pile on it, which will make the plywood rough.

Wood

Wood compares favorably with plywood in that it does not sag under long-term exposure to a significant load. In addition, wood (especially noble species) looks much better under a layer of transparent varnish; however, the price of this material is not comparable with the cost of one or two sheets of plywood.

To connect parts from a solid array, not self-tapping screws or nails are used, but dowels planted on glue. For the manufacture of dowels, hardwoods are used (from inexpensive birch is quite suitable); it is better to use natural glues: casein or albumin.

Wooden cabinet. The wall is made of lining, the door is made of a thin lath.

chipboard

A chipboard laminated on both sides attracts only by the simplicity of finishing the finished structure: in essence, the manufacturer only has to paste over the ends of the parts with an edge tape. With moisture resistance, everything is sad with her; there is also no question of any resistance to deformation - for shelves longer than 30 centimeters, stiffeners are required.

The only thing for which chipboard can be used without any problems is the manufacture of cabinet doors. The doors in the toilet behind the toilet will not be subjected to serious mechanical stress, and the vertical orientation will not allow the material to deform under its own weight.

In the photo - cabinet doors made of laminated chipboard.

A special case

Often, the owner of the apartment takes up the work for purely aesthetic reasons: the only goal is to close the risers of water supply and sewerage, which pretty much spoil the look of the toilet.

Instead of drywall, it is better to use wall panels made of dense plastic. We emphasize that mechanical strength is important here. An accidental impact will easily penetrate thin, inexpensive domestically produced panels; but one and a half times more expensive Italian ones can only be damaged with a hammer.

Tip: To test the strength of the plastic, squeeze the corner of the panel with your fingers.
If he crumpled - go to the next rack.

The panels are fastened to the galvanized profile frame with clamps. The design must be collapsible: sooner or later access to the risers will be required. A starting L-shaped profile is launched along the perimeter of the wall.

In order for the risers to be ventilated and not rust due to the formation of condensate, a pair of narrow and is mounted in the upper and lower parts of the wall.

Conclusion

Of course, we have considered only a small part of the full list of possible solutions. As usual, the reader can discover a few fresh ideas by watching the video in this article. Success in creative work!

The toilet room is one of the most important rooms in any apartment. During the arrangement of the toilet, much attention is paid to the choice of furniture for storing household chemicals, cosmetics, textiles and various accessories. Properly selected and installed cabinets make it possible to rationally use the space, “disguise” counters, water pipes and other plumbing elements.

The furniture production market is dominated by a wide selection of bathroom and toilet furniture. They differ in size, shape, color, material of manufacture and price. But often the small area of \u200b\u200bthe toilet does not allow you to choose suitable cabinets and racks. In this case, the ideal option would be a built-in closet in the toilet with your own hands according to individual sizes.

A built-in closet behind the toilet will save space, create additional space for storing household chemicals, toilet accessories and various small things, and hide communications. Well-chosen dimensions and design will make the toilet aesthetically attractive and functionally comfortable. Properly selected materials, a well-planned design and assembly of the structure will help to get a practical and inexpensive wardrobe that will last for many years.

How to make a closet behind the toilet with your own hands?

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Strict adherence to the algorithm will allow you to get a beautiful, high-quality and durable design.

Project development. At the first stage, it is necessary to design a structure on paper, create a drawing. To do this, you need to decide on the design of the locker, choose its shape and take measurements. Correct measurements are of great importance. First of all, the back wall of the future structure is measured: top, middle and bottom. Next, measurements are taken of the “frontal part” and the height of the proposed cabinet. In the design process, it is important to determine the number and size of internal shelves.
The choice of materials for the cabinet behind the toilet. Toilet furniture can be made of plasterboard, plywood, natural wood or laminated chipboard. Which material to choose is a purely individual matter. But it is important to remember that when choosing a building material, the main criterion should not be price, but practicality and durability. The material must be moisture resistant and durable. The best solution would be noble wood, treated with a transparent varnish.
Preparation of tools for installation. After creating a cabinet project behind the toilet, you should get all the necessary tools, fasteners, fittings and other elements to assemble the structure. So, you will definitely need:

level;
roulette (electronic rangefinder);
screwdriver;
a hammer;
jigsaw;
screwdriver;
electric drill.

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In advance, you should purchase an aluminum U-shaped profile, mounting brackets, furniture hinges and magnets, fasteners, door handles and other materials in the store, depending on the design of the cabinet.

Toilet cabinet assembly. Installation of the structure is carried out strictly according to a previously developed drawing. Following a certain algorithm step by step will greatly simplify the assembly process.

To make a closet in the toilet with your own hands, you must follow the following steps.

At the first stage, the bars are cut to size and fastened to the walls using screws and an electric drill. Sawing wood and other materials can be done independently with the appropriate skills or ordered from any construction company.
At the second stage, sawing of blanks of shelves and doors is carried out. Prepared shelves are installed on the bars and fastened with fasteners. When using wood materials, it is recommended to treat the surface of the structure with a special antiseptic, which can be bought at any hardware store.
At the third stage, markings are made on the blanks with a door on the hinges, which are subsequently screwed on. Many people use piano hinges, as they are more durable and can withstand heavy loads.
At the fourth stage, the locker is finished at the individual discretion. To make the design aesthetically attractive and fit into the interior of the toilet room, you can paste over the surface with self-adhesive wallpaper or laminated paper. Alternatively, the wooden structure can be varnished to imitate wood or painted in a bright saturated color.
At the fifth stage, handles are installed and, if desired, the facades of the cabinet are decorated. Hardware stores sell various decorative ornaments that will allow you to give the closet in the toilet an original look.

Any hostess wants to make the most of every corner of her home. Even small spaces in the form of bathrooms can be useful for storing small things, there is a place for toilet paper, household chemicals, and cleaning supplies. The question arises how to make a closet in the toilet behind the toilet, which will be compact and will not interfere.

To do this, you need to know some of the nuances of both the bathroom itself and the design features of such cabinets.

The plumbing unit has a number of characteristics that distinguish it from any other room.
Increased humidity. In this regard, the construction of structures for the toilet should be carried out only from moisture-resistant materials.
Small area. Large cabinets with bulky handles will not fit here, and a narrow built-in cabinet will do just fine.
Communications. In the toilet room, most often water pipes and valves run along the back wall, access to which may be needed at any time. Therefore, the cabinet over the toilet should be easily removed or disassembled so that the plumber can repair the system if necessary.

Choosing a material

The modern design of the apartments does not leave the toilet room deprived. Designer fantasy allows you to make even a toilet paper stand original, not to mention furniture. To maintain the overall style of housing, the sanitary cabinet in the toilet should not stand out from this style, which means that you need to choose the right materials for it.

Moisture resistant drywall. The cheapest and most affordable option. The assembly is carried out like any other gypsum board construction, using guides and profiles. Such a locker will require bringing it to a neat appearance. To begin with, the seams and caps of the self-tapping screws are puttied, the seams are then rubbed and the entire surface is primed. For finishing, you can use waterproofing water-based paint. It must be applied in several layers (2-3) with a roller or a wide brush.

Plywood. Also a budget material that does not require large expenditures. A closet over a plywood toilet bowl can be made of any configuration, it will depend only on the availability of carpentry skills. There is a special moisture-resistant PSF, but it is not used for residential premises due to the toxic adhesive in its composition. But in this case, plywood with a thickness of 15 mm is suitable. When cutting plywood parts, it is better to use a circular saw and cut along the fibers, then the edges will be even, without burrs.

An alkyd-urethane varnish can be used to impregnate plywood and protect it. After covering the first layer, the fibers of the sheet will rise and the surface will become rough, so after drying, it should be sanded and another 2-3 layers of varnish applied.

Wood. A wooden cabinet above the toilet will look rich and original. The price of noble breeds, of course, will cost several times more than simple plywood, but the service life of wood is much higher. Doors made of wood are not deformed, the shelves will not sag even with a significant load.

chipboard. It is best to make cabinet doors from laminated chipboard, because this material is afraid of moisture, shelves can swell and deform from water and humidity. Although with regard to processing and assembly, chipboard is simply ideal.

MDF board. MDF perfectly manifests itself even with direct contact with water, does not swell or deform. For better protection, the ends of the closet door in the toilet can be covered with an aluminum edge (profile). In addition, this material does not require additional processing (polishing, impregnation or painting). MDF is covered with PVC film, veneer, paint, acrylic already in production. You can easily and quickly choose the facade to match the color and texture of the bathroom design. Toilet paper holder or other small parts can be made from the same material in the same style.

In addition to solid doors, frame facades and rack facades are made from MDF. In the frame facade, the central panel can be made of laminated chipboard or glass (with stained-glass windows, matte, with sandblasted patterns). Such doors can be made to order for specific sizes in any furniture store.

Glass. Most likely, it will not work to make a glass cabinet for the toilet with your own hands, but you can buy it ready-made in a furniture store. The practicality of this material is not high, and the entire “stuffing” of the cabinet will be visible, which does not look very aesthetically pleasing. Glass can be used in combination with other materials, for example, for a facade - in an MDF frame.

Blinds. Cabinet doors can be closed with conventional blinds. It will look organic if the toilet cabinet is built-in. This option is one of the easiest to implement. It is enough to make shelves from available material and attach blinds and the problem of how to make a cabinet in the toilet with your own hands will be solved in the shortest possible time.

Design choice

To effectively use the space of the toilet, you can use different designs of cabinets. It can be a built-in or wall-mounted closet for a toilet, as well as more complex shapes that will capture the space on the sides of the toilet. The side parts of the wall can be closed with false panels and hang toilet paper holders on them.

When making a cabinet, you need to understand for what purposes it is intended. It can only carry a decorative function, closing communications, or it will be a storage cabinet with shelves and doors.

For decor, you can use blinds, roller shutters and MDF or chipboard panels. The first two options only need to be fixed and expanded. There are a lot of different colors of canvases, with images and plain ones, so decorating a toilet room with them is not difficult.

Video collage of lockers

Storage cabinets can be completely invisible - inside the wall, with the same finish. These are the so-called built-in hatches, which are most often made out under a tile. The opening system of such a cabinet is simple, you need to press the door and the mechanism will push it forward. It is difficult to make a secret hatch on your own, because we are talking about wall chasing, and this requires special tools and knowledge.

A simple wall cabinet should not be made too deep. Otherwise, it will stick out strongly above the toilet and it will be inconvenient to use the latter. The shelves should have a drink under the pipes passing through the walls, for this you need a jigsaw.

It would be appropriate to build in a cabinet when the toilet has not yet been installed, in which case it is possible to control the place where the back wall passes. Visually, this design does not overload the space, it does not seem smaller than with a hanging cabinet.

Assembly and installation

First you need to remove all the necessary dimensions. This is especially true for the gap between the walls, it must be measured several times at different heights, since there is a possibility of discrepancy. If this measurement is done incorrectly, the space for the doors will be narrower than necessary.

To facilitate the work, you should draw a simple plan, with markings of all sizes, the location of the shelves.

The assembly begins with the frame. For it, bars of 30 * 30 mm are used, which are fastened with furniture corners and self-tapping screws. Then the frame is fixed on the wall.

If the cabinet is located between two walls, then the side parts do not need to be done. It is enough to cut the shelves to size, taking into account the holes for the pipes and attach them to the walls with furniture corners.

Doors can be ordered in a furniture store or made independently. To make the doors yourself, you need to know their height and width. The width between the walls must be divided in half and subtract 3 mm for gaps on each side, so that the doors open and close easily without hitting each other. This will be the width of one door. On the frame mark a place for fastening the hinges, and hang the doors. Hinges for doors can be simple, with closers, with a reverse opening system when pressed. Hinges with closers close the doors smoothly, bringing them to close without noise. Hinges with a reverse opening system allow you to avoid installing handles on the cabinet, because they open the door when you press it with your hand.

The final stage is the installation of handles and magnets (if necessary). Handles should be small, rounded, without sharp elements.

Equipping your bathroom - making a wall cabinet for the toilet - is not at all difficult. Part of the work can be left to professionals - to make facades. The cost of such work is slightly higher, but the result will be perfect. In addition, in furniture stores there is a huge selection of materials that can be ideally combined with the existing decor in the toilet. For the best result, you need to make accurate measurements and purchase high-quality fittings. Then the fruits of their labor will delight with functionality and excellent appearance.

The rational use of the bathroom space largely determines the level of its comfort, and the aesthetic component is important for making the room cozy and attractive. A plumbing element such as a toilet cabinet helps to achieve these goals. If such a product is present, it will be as convenient as possible to use the toilet.

The bathroom is one of the most important rooms in the house, and mistakes in its arrangement can affect the comfort of life. To increase the ergonomic characteristics of this space, it is worth choosing functional, beautiful, durable cabinets for the toilet.

Furniture of this kind has a huge number of advantages and allows you to solve many important issues when arranging a bathroom:

by veiling communications (sewer and water pipes), you can give the room an attractive, neat look. Exposed pipes can hardly be called beautiful, and their design rarely fits well in an apartment. Therefore, you should not leave them unattended. By choosing the right locker, it will be possible to get to communications at any time without much difficulty, which is extremely important in the event of a breakdown;
choosing a spacious model, you can provide yourself with additional storage space for household chemicals, cleaning items. If you divide the space inside the product into a zone for pipes and for shelves, you can save a decent amount of space in the bathroom. This is especially important when the room is small, as, for example, in Khrushchev;
if there is a water meter, it can also be hidden in a locker in the toilet. Thus, you will provide yourself with hassle-free access to the equipment, but hide it behind the facade of the furniture for greater aesthetics of the interior.

Such furniture has a lot of advantages, it is for this reason that it is so popular today among the owners of country houses and apartments. But they are revealed to the maximum if a quality product is purchased.

Product options

Modern toilet cabinets are very diverse in terms of performance and appearance, so the consumer can easily choose a model in any style, depending on the decor of the bathroom of a particular size, color.

Let's describe the most popular types of toilet cabinets. According to the type of doors, plumbing products are distinguished with:

louvered doors of two types: rolling and "pseudo-blinds". The first option is convenient for a small bathroom due to its compactness. The door does not swing open, which requires additional space, but folds up, rising up. Therefore, blind models can be hung in places that are inconvenient in shape. The second option is a regular facade, made in the form of blinds, but without the presence of movable slats. Such a door allows the internal contents of the furniture to be perfectly ventilated;
a plumbing hatch that closes a niche with pipes. In practice, the hatch is an ordinary frame made of a corner, on which a metal door with a lock is mounted using hinges. Note that such a solution will not be expensive, but the hatch does not always look stylish, expensive;
hinged facades - such designs are best made to order. They are diverse in design, size, functional and practical;
compartment doors - this design does not require additional space to open the door, as it simply slides behind the second facade.

louvered

swing

With sanitary hatch

Based on the material of manufacture, models are distinguished from:

Natural wood is an expensive, beautiful, durable material. But it is worth remembering that when combining a bathroom and a toilet, the service life of a wooden cabinet may be reduced. Increased air humidity will adversely affect the quality of surfaces
MDF - the cost of structures made of MDF belongs to the category of medium, but under the influence of water, the material may lose its shape;
Chipboard is the most undesirable option for a combined toilet with a bathtub, since chipboard quickly absorbs moisture from the air and swells. But for a separate toilet, chipboard is an ideal option in terms of cost and external aesthetics;
plastic is the most practical option, since plastic is not at all afraid of high humidity. But the appearance of plastic models is not always aesthetic. It's more of a budget option.

Wood

Plastic

Glass

Based on the shape of the product, cabinets are distinguished:

rectangular - standard products that are selected for the bathroom more often than others;
corner triangular - perfectly fit into the space of the corner, which allows you to rationally plan it;
angular in the form of a trapezoid - more spacious than a triangular model;
radius - have an unusual design, but are quite expensive.

Placement methods

If the sewer pipe runs in a niche, it is worth picking up a standard rectangular or square cabinet in the toilet behind the toilet. This is the perfect solution to make communications attractive. The main thing is to guess with the size of the model so that it fits well into the niche. If you want to save money, you can not buy a ready-made cabinet, but pick up a hatch with a lock, with which they close a niche with pipes.

If the pipes are concentrated in the corner of the room, then you should opt for the corner cabinet model. Such designs are characterized by high capacity, and their design will give the toilet a pleasant look.

Additional functions

In small bathrooms, it is extremely important to endow all pieces of furniture with high functionality, practicality, in order to use the room as conveniently as possible at any time of the day. At the same time, do not forget that the design of a small space also affects its comfort. Therefore, models of cabinets in the toilet should have additional functions. Such a product is shown in the photo in the selection.

With a mirror

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How to choose

If the design of the bathroom is chosen, it remains to choose a suitable cabinet model for it. When choosing a mini size toilet cabinet, it is important to remember the following:

Initially, you need to decide on the choice of the shape of the product. If there is a niche, choose built-in models to order, if not, you can choose more affordable, ready-made models;
then take measurements of the space to understand what size cabinet will fit into the bathroom. It is also required to measure the parameters of the pipes that will hide in the cabinet. Be sure to sketch schematically the features of their location before leaving for the furniture store;
choose an actual color scheme and design of a sanitary element that will perfectly complement the decor of the bathroom;
ask the seller for a quality certificate for the product, which will guarantee a long service life of the furniture, its practicality, and the high quality of the materials used in the manufacturing process. It is also important to clarify the availability of fasteners and other components. If in addition to the model there is no bracket or hardware, you will have to purchase such fasteners separately. They will allow the installation of the structure on the wall surface.

Remember, the closets in the toilet, the photos of which are presented below, should be in harmony with the decoration of the room, complement it with their beauty. Then the room will look concise, holistic.