Wood Recessed Medicine Cabinet

A medicine cabinet is a multi-purpose storage space for your bathroom that can eliminate clutter on the counter. It’s not just for medication, a first aid kit, and your vitamins despite its name.

The privacy a medicine cabinet provides makes it a great place to keep personal hygiene items you don’t want your guests to see or touch. This can include tweezers, toothpaste, floss, or feminine hygiene products. If you have an extensive skincare routine, you can also store these products in your medicine cabinet to avoid exposure to UV light.

It’s also a good idea to keep items you might overlook otherwise in your medicine cabinet, where they’re readily accessible during your morning routine. For example, a face moisturizer with an SPF should be applied daily. Place this cream right next to your toothpaste in the medicine cabinet so it becomes part of your daily self-care ritual.

You aren’t limited to placing a medicine cabinet in your bathroom. A wood recessed medicine cabinet makes a stylish addition to your kitchen for storing spices, to your laundry room for keeping sewing items, or in your craft room for organizing small art supplies like paint, ribbon, tape, and pens.

A wood recessed medicine cabinet will require a high skill level to install, as you’ll need to cut into the wall to make it happen. You’ll need to avoid electrical lines and water lines, which are both likely to be in the vicinity of your sink. Unless you’re highly experienced with both plumbing and electrical work, it’s best to have professionals tackle this instead of making it a DIY.

Medicines are not the only thing you can store in a medicine cabinet. You can keep other items too.

Adhesive bandages are important because they form a physical barrier for an open wound. A nasal aspirator bulb would be useful for clearing mucus from your little one’s nose. Sunscreen is an important component of the medicine cabinet to help counter the risk of sunburn.

Place a standard digital thermometer so you can quickly check when you or someone in the household is catching a fever. Keep scissors, nail clippers and tweezers on hand for those times you need to remove splinters.

A toothbrush would be safer from aerial contamination when in the medicine cabinet than elsewhere in the bathroom. Petroleum jelly is a necessary jack-of-all-trades. It prevents chafing, relieves dry skin, treats diaper rash, rehydrates dry nails and accelerates wound healing.