Article: Healthy dose of planning helps when replacing medicine cabinets No pro is needed to install either recessed style or those flush with the wall

I don't have a medicine cabinet anymore, and I don't miss it much.

The house I moved into in May has a large mirror, mounted directly to the wall above the bathroom sink, and a drawer under a countertop where we keep razor blades, dental floss and daily hair-care stuff. The medicines we use regularly, such as aspirin and antacid, have moved to a shelf over the kitchen sink.

The trend through the 1970s and '80s was bigger and bigger medicine chests with coordinated light bars. Big medicine cabinets were matched with nice vanities under the bathroom sink in most new homes.

Now dainty pedestal sinks are the rage, and they look better with smaller medicine cabinets or wall-mounted ...

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