Make Your Own Vessel Sink Bowl

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.

Make your own vessel sink bowl.

Drill a hole in the base of the bowl. Remove the bowl make another pilot hole and use the steel hole saw to cut the drain hole out of the vanity. Ginger used a resin bowl to make her vessel sink. The sink itself needs to have a water filter but to do this you need to make a hole.

To make the vessel sink we used a serving bowl a chrome pipe kit similar to this and sink drain. An ikea hacker turned a 15 blanda blank salad bowl into a vessel sink. Choose a masonry drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the pipe. If you decide to install a bowl as a sink there are a few important factors to keep in mind before installation.

The pipe will come up from the pedestal and fit inside the hole in the bowl. Attach the sink drain check your cuts by placing the bowl and drain assembly on the counter to make sure everything lines up. Center the bowl on the countertop and mark its location as well as the drain hole location. She wrote up a how to 5 months after its installation just to make sure it held up.

Use the diameter of the pipe as a guide to the holes you need to make.