Make Your Own Vessel Sink Bowl

If you decide to install a bowl as a sink there are a few important factors to keep in mind before installation.

Make your own vessel sink bowl.

The sink itself needs to have a water filter but to do this you need to make a hole. The pipe will come up from the pedestal and fit inside the hole in the bowl. Ginger used a resin bowl to make her vessel sink. Remove the bowl make another pilot hole and use the steel hole saw to cut the drain hole out of the vanity.

An ikea hacker turned a 15 blanda blank salad bowl into a vessel sink. Use the diameter of the pipe as a guide to the holes you need to make. 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. Drill a hole in the base of the bowl.

Center the bowl on the countertop and mark its location as well as the drain hole location. Attach the sink drain check your cuts by placing the bowl and drain assembly on the counter to make sure everything lines up. Jill bought a bamboo 20 bowl at world market and turned it into a lovely vessel sink. Choose a masonry drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the pipe.

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.