Like most things Ikea, the styling is nice, but the quality is flimsy. Very thin construction of the cabinet and doors that seem like they would warp with time and moisture.

IKEA kitchen cabs have a very good reputation for being solid (i hope so as we are going to install them soon!)

I have read on here and the IKEAfans webpage that the bathroom cabinets do not have the same quality.

We are planning to use an IKEA kitchen cab as our bathroom vanity. Have read of several people doing the same -- either with the dimensions unaltered or by cutting the depth down to standard vanity depth. We're going to leave the height/depth unaltered.

Congrats on the newborn -- they certainly eat up those $$ !

Yep, I agree with mayland--we're using cut-down kitchen cabs as our bath cabs (master bath). DH cut them down to 22", we're using a 1/4" plywood backing instead of the backing they come with, and he cut new cam holes (we also glue and clamp). No problem. They can handle any top you want.

I was VERY disappointed in the quality of the bath cabinetry, myself. Maybe for a powder room, but never for anything that really gets used.

I'm also putting an extra coat of waterlox on the Hallarum doors/panels we got to use on them. We had an extra coat of conversion varnish put on the kitchen Hallarums--it's made them so easy to clean and very tough, but the refinishing guy wouldn't handle such a small job as our bathroom doors/panels :(. So I'm doing waterlox myself. Some extra kind of finish is strongly recommended, IMO--can't hurt, will help.

ACTUALLY, I take it back on *one* account: the particular washbasin we're getting for DD's room--it's the one that's open underneath and is all birch. I'm actually going to take the top off and put silestone slab ontop, and a bigger drop in sink. But the rest of it looks pretty sturdy, and I hope the matching tall storage piece will be too (I'll see when Ikea opens close to use in about 30 days! -- we were using one that's about 2.5 hours away, but we won't have to for much longer :)). The actual bath vanity *cabinets* I would not recommend.

OK - Let me get this straight. I buy a kitchen cabinet vanity - cut it down to the correct height, and drop in the square sink from IKEA? I was thinking of the following setup for my spare bathroom:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S69825136

Which specific vanity from ikea in the kitchen cabinets do I need to get to fit that sink?

blakeas, you'd be cutting it down to the right *depth*...kitchen cabinets are typically 24", but bath cabinets are typically somewhere between 18-22". You have to figure out a different way to attach the pieces to each other,e.g. cutting new cam lock holes, since you'll be cutting out the original attachment areas.

And with that sink, you have a bit of a problem if you want the sink to match up completely with the edges of the cabinet...you *could* get a 36" wide sinkbase cabinet, instead, and have some counter hanging over the edges, for which you'd have to figure out what material you want..but there's no 31.5" kitchen cabinet. We have the Hollviken sink going into a 53" wide silestone countertop, and cut-to-depth kitchen cabinets underneath.

You also could probably cut the whole 36" cabinet down to 31.5", so you'd be cutting width as well as depth. It's definitely doable, just more of a pain, but it would give you the cabinet size you want.