Vanity Built with live edge Lumber

Originally posted 2014-08-02 by Brad. Brought over from the old Plan-to-Build archive.

I made this bathroom vanity with a collection of rough cut lumber, and salvaged hardwood flooring. The framework is made from pecan which has some aged white cedar inlaid for the drawer fronts and cabinet doors. The top is made from salvaged hardwood flooring that I sanded down and sealed.

Archive Notes

I found the sinks at a salvage yard and picked them up for $15 a piece. They are Kohler :) Had to buy the faucets at Lowes, so all in all this vanity only cost me the price of two faucets and 30 bucks for the sink. Not a bad deal for some cheap woodworking.

The pecan framework turned out really nice. Pecan has some really nice grain patterns with alternating dark spots. I used a side board or slab from the sawmill as a piece of molding along the top, and the corner posts were edge boards which added a little character to the piece.

I inlaid the pecan framework with aged white cedar my Grandfather cut years ago when he still used the old circular saw. I wanted to keep the aged look and also use the arcing saw marks to bring some life to the bathroom vanity. The white cedar was actually infested with carpenter bees which didn’t decide to come out until I started cutting it up on the table saw…made for an interesting cut! You can actually see a few holes left by the bees in the pictures.