How to Install a Recessed Bathroom Cabinet in the Wall

Recessed bathroom cabinets sit in the wall, providing storage space without encroaching on the bathroom’s space as much as wall-mounted cabinets. Installing a recessed cabinet requires you to cut into your bathroom wall to perform the installation, unless you are replacing an old recessed cabinet the same size as the new one. You must also ensure the cabinet is securely anchored to wood boards inside the wall; otherwise, the cabinet could fall out later.

Stud finder
Pencil
Drywall knife
Measuring tape
Wood boards
Saw
Wood screws
Screwdriver

Instructions

- 1
  Use a stud finder to locate and mark the studs in the wall where you wish to install the cabinet. Measure the width of the cabinet, and decide where to install the cabinet so it sits between the studs.
- 2
  Hold the cabinet against the wall while an assistant traces around the perimeter of the cabinet on the wall. Remove the cabinet, and then cut along the tracing with a drywall knife, creating a cutout in the wall.
- 3
  Measure and cut boards that fit in the space between the edges of the cutout and the back of the wall along all four sides of the cutout. Slide the different pieces of wood into the space inside the wall at the very edge of the cutout, and drive wood screws through the wall and into the boards to hold the boards in place.
- 4
  Remove the screws holding the cabinet’s door in place, and set the door aside. Insert the cabinet into the wall cutout, and drill holes through the sides, bottom and top of the cabinet and into the wood boards you installed in the wall.
- 5
  Drive wood screws through the pilot holes you drilled, stopping once the screw heads are flush with the inside of the cabinet. Replace the cabinet’s door, and drive the screw back through the hinge pieces to hold the door in place.

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