This vanity was made from solid teak. The bathroom that it resides in doesn’t have a window and is rather small. So moisture was a concern. Its made using traditional mortise and tenon joinery, some pocket screws, and pre-drilled and plugged holes as if you would do on a boat.
It features two drawers for stowing away the daily essentials. It houses a wall & counter top mounted vessel sink. The lower stretcher system is convenient for displaying a few decorative towels or ocean themed nick-knacks.
A few of the major obstacles to be kept in mind while designing this piece were as followed :
1. The wall that the countertop it resting against has a radius on it.
2. When designing the center drawer system there had to be enough room to house the plumbing.
3. The whole vanity is stain grade expensive material so joints had to be tight and no ghosting glue spots.
4. All hardware had to be stainless.
5. The drawers were to be flush mounted with the face of the vanity as well as the traditional drawer glides and kickers were to be made of wood.
With all of that in mind I could begin brainstorming on the design and begin fabrication. To start with I built a dust cover frame which houses the drawer glides, styles, and mounting tenons for the legs. In this instance I use pocket screws to hold this assembly together and some mortise and tenon joinery.
Once all of these part were fab’ed and dry fit I could glue this assembly together and move on to the next step. Which was to fabricate the legs and stretcher system.
In the photos below the stretcher system has been fabricated using half-lap and mortise and tenon joinery.
Below you can see one of the two the leg assemblies. They were then assembled, glued, and clamped to the to the hollow casework.
Here is a picture of the hollow casework before the legs were attached. Then the lower stretcher system, the two leg assemblies and the hollow casework were glued together and clamped snugly. Now it was starting to look like a vanity.
