this bathroom is ready to go. we've already had the trade's man in and they'vedone the electrics and the plumbing. i want to put something of my own in here,so i'm going to build a beautiful hardwood floating vanity. it's going to be a real centerpiece for thebathroom. here all the tools materials i'm going toneed to make my floating vanity. the first thing we're going to do is joinour two pieces of timber together. i want to make sure i get the nicest facesup right. now stands your timber boards up, glue theedges, lay them back down and clamp them together.
as we don't want to damage our timber, we'rejust going to use some chalks in between the clamp and the timber. to ensure that the boards don't bark in themiddle when clamping, we're going to put two additional clamps on top. we're now going to remove all the glue fromthis side of the board using a chisel and a rag. we use a chisel as this avoids spreading theglue around. to get these two boards level and remove thestep, we're going to put one block off cut timber underneath, the other on top.
and we're going to hammer them level. now, the timbers all level, we just need toclean off the excess glue and then leave it to dry. make sure you follow the drying times in theback of the glue you've used. now it's fully dried. i've taken off the clamps and we need to removeany excess glue that has oozed down, and then flip it and do the other side as well. we're going to sand back our timber. we're going to be using a belt sander hereas it will give us a nice smooth finish, and
we want to make sure we have a nice levelfinish as well. it's looking great, so we'll send it back. we need to make two of these, so we can repeatexactly the same process for a second board. you should now have two of these pieces oftimber. they've all been sanded back. you're not going to pick out the best piecefor your top, and you need to mark that and the frontage. the next thing we're going to do is cut the45 degree miter at one end and then we're going to measure back to give us the lengthof our vanity top.
now we've got our top done and miter it outthe way, we're going to follow a similar process on this second board. the three pieces were going to get are theside panels, the basin and then the miter. now we need to join the pieces together andmiter them. before doing this is a really good idea tomark those pieces are going to join together, so you don't get confused later on. i've now rebated all my mitered corners formy brackets to fit into. we now need to glue and nail them together. when you apply the glue to your corners, youjust want to make sure you get a really good
coating. we're going to continue on mailing and gluingour mitered corners making sure that they're flushed. this is already starting to take shape. let's glue and pin this final piece in. now we just need to put some brackets in toprovide some additional strength. we're going to drill and screw them in, reallysimple. we now need to measure the top of our vanityunit and cut it to length. to preserve the natural look of the wood,i'm going to give it a clear stain.
this will go and looking kind of milky butit will dry clear. you can do what you want, but i think thatthe clear stain here will really make the wood look good. to fit our vanity, we're going to bring itup and make sure the holes are in line with our rear bar. it is quite heavy so you will need an extraset of hands. once the vanity is back up and in place, youcan just put some glue along the back of the rear bar. there you have it, completed floating vanityunit.
[inaudible 0:03:48] vanity which would costa fortune in the shops, we've done it in a fraction of the price, plus it's somethingwe've made ourselves. the timber brings a beautiful natural eleganceto the room, and a simple design is understated but really stylish. i absolutely love it.