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Ikea Groland as a bathroom vanity with a vessel sink

We wanted to create a different sink and vanity feel when re-doing one of our bathrooms.  We picked the Ikea Groland kitchen island to be the base and a cultured stone bowl  as the sink.

The Groland has an all wood frame and a butcher-block top.  It comes unfinished.  The top in the picture is the untreated color. The base in this picture has been stained with two coats of natural finish and 4 coats of polyurethane.  This gave it a bit of an amber tint that we were fine with.


Groland's frame is 19x41.  The top is 21x47 with one inch overhang front and back and 3 inches overhang on each side.  We put the frame against the wall giving 2 inches overhang in the front as shown in the picture. We decided to put a granite or quartz top on the frame and save the wood top for a later project.  The granite overhangs 2" in the front and 2" on each side resulting in a 21x45 top.

Groland comes in normal counter-top height which is too tall when using a vessel sink.  We cut 3" off the bottom of each leg using a chop saw.  The picture above shows the height of the basket level with the legs cut.  No holes were drilled or components modified for that build.

Ikea reduces the amount of wood by using hollow structures where possible. The legs are solid on the top and the bottom and hollow in parts of the middle.

 The depth of the solid end varies by leg.  This picture shows a piece I cut off that had the thickest solid bottom. Other pieces were probably 1 inch shorter.

The Groland comes with 4 legs, 2 upper sides, 2 lower sides, 2 upper front/back pieces, 2 lower front/back pieces, the lattice and the top. This picture shows all the components while we were treating them.



This picture shows the depth of the 21 inch top relative to our sink.  The glue container represents the faucet when we tried to figure out if the faucet could go behind the sink. The pen represents the front edge of the rear cross support. All faucet components have to go in front of that crossbar if putting the faucet behind the sink.

We decided to put the faucet next to the sink so that we could center the sink moving it rearwards from what is shown in this picture.

Note: This still shows the bundled wood top in place of the granite we went with.



The tile is a ceramic with a wood grain pattern and coloring. The leg fragment shows the basic color of the base after treatment.  The glass tiles are an accent used in a wall box.  the wood top looks good here but we didn't really want to deal with a wood counter-top.













Initial posting reated 8/11/2015

Here is a poor picture of the vessel sink, Groland vanity and two ikea baskets.

Photo Added 8/25/2015 -->
Photo Added 9/20/2015





















We used the counter top to make a hairpin leg coffee table 



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  1. UnknownSeptember 30, 2015 at 5:15 PM

    can you tell me where you found your granite top? Thank you

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  2. UnknownOctober 13, 2015 at 8:10 AM

    Where did you get your vessel sink? Thank you!

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