Narrow Medicine Cabinet

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Medicine, cosmetics, and skincare products are all things we need to hand in our bathrooms, and with a narrow medicine cabinet you can store everything you need without taking up precious wall space. You can go for cabinets that have large mirrors, that are recessed, or sit horizontally instead of vertically – in our handy list below we’ve included all three and more.

Frameless Mirror Medicine Cabinet with Adjustable Shelves

White Narrow Recessed Medicine Cabinet

Why not choose some really efficient and utterly convenient storage space for your master bathroom with this fixture that will allow you to store your belongings and will surely let you avoid an overcluttered look.

Look no further for an additional place in the bathroom, just invest in a single mirror connected to the medicine cabinet. The high-quality float mirror connects inside with 4 glass shelves. They are durable and will give your bathroom an undisturbed reflex.

The edition 300 medicine cabinet by Keuco has top-mounted hinges ...

Tilstone W H Surface Framed Medicine Cabinet with Mirror and 3 Adjustable Shelves

Maxstow™ Surface Mount Frameless Medicine Cabinet with 4 Fixed Shelves

Classic Slim Medicine Cabinet

Frontline Shaker Recessed Frameless 1 Door Medicine Cabinet with Adjustable Shelves

Half Open Thin Medicine Cabinet

Little cabinet with four shelves and metal door. This case will can be used as a medicine cabinet to storage medicaments or as a place to storage cosmetics. It will play its role the best in your bathroom.

This stunning medicine cabinet can easily serve the double function of a mirror, making it just perfect for your bathroom. It comes with the interior mirror on the back wall as well and offers a charming, contemporary design.

Wall-Mounted Medicine Cabinet with Shelves

Wall-mounted, this narrow medicine cabinet constitutes will be a smooth addition to any bathroom decor. Its front features a frameless beveled mirror. The interior conceals 4 shelves for your accessories and stuff.

Feven 22'' W 28'' H Surface Framed Medicine Cabinet with Mirror and 2 Adjustable Shelves

Broan-NuTone 625 Bel Aire Narrow Body Frameless Medicine Cabinet

Very delicate, practical and useful cupboard for drugs. It is perfect for the bathroom in a discrete place. At the same time it does not interfere with the whole concept of design, and it can only complement and closed.

Saturn 20.5" x 20.5" Surface Mount Medicine Cabinet

Excellent blend of functionality and impeccable beauty, this 20.5 x 20.5-Inch Surface Mount Medicine Cabinet in White Finish is suitable for any bathroom decor. The cabinet include an oval mirror door that conceals a spacious storage area consisted of four adjustable compartments.

LED Vanity Mirror Cabinet with Adjustable Shelf

David-Christian LED Lighted Bathroom Medicine Cabinet with Mirror, Defogger, Dimmer, Outlets & USBs

This contemporary mirrored medicine cabinet comes with the recessed mount with reversible piano hinge for more stability and durability while using and offers the white baked-on enamel steel body for a more refined look.

Frontline Shaker Recessed Frameless 2 Door Medicine Cabinet with Adjustable Shelves

Electric Cabinet with Integrated USB Charging Port

We are always looking for functional yet beautiful solutions.Great narrow recessed medicine cabinet,with round shape mirror-it's inspired of an antique 19th-century ship's porthole.Finishing with shining metal,where you can hide your medicines or cosmetics.

Gothar Surface Mount Frameless Medicine Cabinet with 3 Adjustable Shelves and LED Lighting

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Chloe is a vintage and antique decor expert, writer, and DIY educator who helps readers translate their love of character-rich pieces into livable, modern homes. With an extensive background in antique shopping, period décor, and hands-on upcycling, she shows people how to blend storied finds with everyday comfort. Her guidance focuses on creating warm, personal interiors where historic details and real life work seamlessly together.

Having a medicine cabinet is a good idea, but sometimes it is difficult to find a place for it. By recessing your medicine cabinet, it can be concealed behind a picture or a mirror allowing you to make use of the wall space that might otherwise be consumed. It can also be a way to hide the cabinet – useful if you have frequent guests, particularly guests with children.

How does recessing work?

Modern frame buildings begin with a framework made from two-inch by four-inch boards. These are usually set edge-on to a room, on 24-inch centers. This means that between any two wall studs, except in corners or areas accommodating windows, there is a space that is approximately 20 inches wide and 3 ½ inches deep. In outer walls, this space is likely to be filled with insulation, but such is not apt to be the case with interior walls. Wiring and plumbing often run through these spaces, but usually at the lower levels of the wall. This leaves the upper cavity as fair game for a slim cabinet.

A hole can be cut in the wallboard, the cabinet inserted and fastened to the wall studs, and then a mirror or picture set as the door.

What different designs of recessed medicine cabinets are there?

Standard Bathroom Cabinet

A standard bathroom arrangement is to insert a recessed cabinet above the sink, and for the door to be a mirror. When toothpaste, shaving gear, or headache meds are needed, the mirror opens like a door to reveal the shelf unit behind the door. When the door is closed, the mirror functions as a place to see yourself to arrange hair, shave, put on make-up or other things that are best done with a little visual assistance.

Hidden Behind a Picture

You might not want to keep your personal meds in a bathroom that is open to the general flow of daily activity. For example, if you are a diabetic, you might need a place to keep your blood sugar test kit, your daily log book, some emergency glucose, needles for administering insulin and your test paper strips. These items are a little too sensitive to keep in a room that has constant moisture and that might have children in and out of it. Using a picture for the front makes it less obviously a medicine cabinet.

The Narrow Kitchen Cabinet

Some first aid items are just too bulky to keep in a bathroom cabinet unless it’s extra spacious. A narrow kitchen medicine cabinet is a good place to keep disinfectant, castile soap, drawing ointment, rolled bandages, ace bandages, large bottles of aspirin or Tylenol, and simple symptom relievers such as nasal spray or eye drops.

Bonus tip: An alternate plan for a slim medicine cabinet is to slide it between two larger cabinets as if it were a narrow drawer. When the cabinet is pulled out, the shelves are exposed. When it is pushed in, it just looks as if it were a narrow cabinet area.