I'd love to know how to *make* this, DIY-style.

timely! my medicine cabinet is sitting in my closet. i removed it from the wall during a mini renovation. i just replaced the cabinet with a mirror on the wall. i have so few toiletries i use during the day, they're placed sparingly on the counter. seeing this has finally convinced me to not get rid of it but to hang it in the entryway as a hat, scarf, and gloves/whatever storage unit. thank you!

K T G, what's that about wrapping books in aluminum foil??

Great idea, especially if off to the side and not the primary bathroom mirror. It may also keep people from snooping through your medicine cabinet at parties!

Books in the bathroom? Is that in case you run out of paper?

Someone on gardenweb's Baths Forum did this too, several months ago.

"What are some places that you would use a medicine cabinet disguised by art? Share your great ideas with us!"

I could see it used as a spice cabinet in a kitchen...

Do we have any resources for this thing tho?

For the people who said in another post a while back that they were disappointed with their non-magnetic fridges: Get a medicine cabinet to hold your spices/pot holders/stirring utensils/whatever, and get a metal surface to cover it...and use *that* as your magnetic surface!

I'm thinking about doing this same thing in my bathroom and I've been thinking about how to affix the frame to the metal cabinet door. Glue is too permanent and I've been toying with the idea of using some heavy-duty stick-on velcro. You can get it in various widths and I've used it before on trade show displays for work. It holds like nobody's business but it can still be removed if you want to change out the picture that's in the frame.

Three other places where a hinged-frame hiding a shallow cabinet or existing cabinet would work:

1. front hall, to hang keys,
2. fuse box, if you want to do up a laundry or utility room,
3. in front of a wall-mounted safe (commonly done)

I'm thinking of the velcro thing, but how would the rest of you do it? I'm asking in all seriousness because I really do want to do this.

Monica, velco might start sagging/ shifting each time you opened it. I would epoxy the back of the frame to the mirror, but you want it removable...

One solution would be to screw two small U-shaped clips to the back of the picture frame at the top, with the "U"s upside-down, then clip it over the mirror top, essentially "hanging" the picture off the mirror top.

Another solution would be to remove the mirror from the hinges and store it (this one looks like two european hinges but most I've seen use a piano hinge), then screw the back of the picture frame to the original hinges.

Thanks lightspeed! You are right about the velcro shifiting. The "U" shaped clip idea sounds easy and feasible and I could secure the bottom of the frame with some velcro or two-face tape just so it doesn't shift around.

My medicine cabinet has just a plain metal door without a mirror (it's off to the side and we have a huge mirror that spans the width of the double vanity) so it will be easy to hang something from it.

Thanks again!

Good Idea!

A company called iinnovators has been making these for a long time. They call them The Concealed Cabinet. I bought one last year and I love it. If you're interested you can check them out at www.concealedcabinet.com

Jess

I once used a vintage cabinet in a kitchen for spices. It hung over the stove