Make Your Own Vessel Sink Bowl

Center the bowl on the countertop and mark its location as well as the drain hole location.

Make your own vessel sink bowl.

Choose a masonry drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the pipe. Jan 6 2013 another view of copper vessel sink originally uploaded by gimbler taking a break from re arranging furniture and thinking back to a fu. Drill a hole in the base of the bowl. Use the diameter of the pipe as a guide to the holes you need to make.

She wrote up a how to 5 months after its installation just to make sure it held up. Jill bought a bamboo 20 bowl at world market and turned it into a lovely vessel sink. The pipe will come up from the pedestal and fit inside the hole in the bowl. Remove the bowl make another pilot hole and use the steel hole saw to cut the drain hole out of the vanity.

If you decide to install a bowl as a sink there are a few important factors to keep in mind before installation. 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. The sink itself needs to have a water filter but to do this you need to make a hole. Buy a serving bowl that you can fit your hands in you will look silly taking bowls off store shelves and sticking your hands in them just like i did for several months.

Ginger used a resin bowl to make her vessel sink.