Make Your Own Vessel Sink Bowl

Ginger used a resin bowl to make her vessel sink.

Make your own vessel sink bowl.

To make the vessel sink we used a serving bowl a chrome pipe kit similar to this and sink drain. Jill bought a bamboo 20 bowl at world market and turned it into a lovely vessel sink. Choose a masonry drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the pipe. An ikea hacker turned a 15 blanda blank salad bowl into a vessel sink.

Attach the sink drain check your cuts by placing the bowl and drain assembly on the counter to make sure everything lines up. She wrote up a how to 5 months after its installation just to make sure it held up. Drill a hole in the base of the bowl. 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.

The sink itself needs to have a water filter but to do this you need to make a hole. Use the diameter of the pipe as a guide to the holes you need to make. The pipe will come up from the pedestal and fit inside the hole in the bowl. 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.

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