Doors that open where the room lets them · review
A frameless anodized aluminum medicine cabinet with a mirrored interior and 108° hinges.
Five of these seven cabinets are a wood product. A wood panel in a bathroom fails in one specific way: moisture reaches a cut edge, the material swells, and it does not go back. Above a sink the vulnerable edge is the underside, which is where the steam goes.
Anodized aluminum cannot do that.
Anodizing grows a hard oxide layer that is part of the metal rather than a coating on it, so it does not chip off the way paint does, and the aluminum underneath does not rust.
YTSMIR, the most expensive cabinet here at $229.99, publishes “high quality metal” without naming the metal or the treatment. This names both.
That figure appears on one listing out of seven, and it is a specification written by somebody who has used a medicine cabinet.
A door that stops at 90° stands square across the cabinet front and blocks the shelf nearest the hinge. You can see the end of the shelf and not reach it — a third of the storage on a 20-inch cabinet.
A hundred and eight degrees swings the door clear.
And the hinges are two-way adjustable, which is how a door is brought back square after the cabinet settles on the wall. Six cabinets here describe their hinges. None of the others gives an angle.
A cabinet that can be recessed must have plain sides, because recessed they are inside the wall.
Surface-mount the same cabinet and those plain sides are at eye level on the wall beside you.
A side mirror kit covers them, so the thing reads as a mirrored block rather than a box screwed to a wall.
Three cabinets on this shelf offer recessed and surface mounting: this, the YTSMIR and the Tangkula. This is the only one that includes the kit.
Mirrored surfaces inside and out.
Which sounds decorative and is practical: a mirrored back doubles the apparent depth and throws light into the shelves, so you can see what is at the back of a five-inch box without a flashlight.
Two tempered-glass shelves, which will not sag the way a wood shelf does and can be wiped rather than scrubbed. The load is not published — DICTAC, on this shelf, is the only listing that publishes one, at 22 lb (10 kg).
Three point six square inches of mirrored front per dollar — against 10.1 from the fifty-dollar VASAGLE and 7.7 from the Tangkula.
Twenty by twenty-six inches is among the smaller fronts on this shelf at the second-highest price.
So this is not a purchase about mirror area. It is a purchase about the cabinet still being the same object in 2040.
The catalog dimensions read 9.72 × 2.80 × 11.7 in (247 x 71 x 297 mm) — about 9.7 by 2.8 by 11.7 inches.
A 20 by 26 inch cabinet is not 9.7 inches wide. That is a data error, and the title figures are the ones to work from.
Available at around $144.97 on Amazon.com when we checked on October 29, 2026, for delivery to a US address.
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| Outside dimensions | A 20 × 26 in cabinet in Anodized Aluminum, resisting rust and chips — the only metal-bodied cabinet here whose alloy is actually named — mirrored on the interior surfaces as well as the outside. 25.0 lb (11,340 g), about 3.6 sq in of mirrored front per dollar. The catalog figures of 9.72 × 2.80 × 11.7 in (247 × 71 × 297 mm) cannot describe a 20 × 26 in cabinet and are not repeated here. |
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| Depth | NOT PUBLISHED — the catalog depth is part of the same unusable figure. |
| Doors and swing | One full-overlay mirrored door with beveled edges, LEFT-HAND OR RIGHT-HAND, on two-way adjustable hinges OPENING 108° — THE ONLY HINGE ANGLE PUBLISHED ON THIS SHELF, and the figure that says whether the door clears the next wall. |
| Shelves | Two, adjustable, in TEMPERED GLASS — the only glass shelves here. No shelf load is published. |
| Lighting | NONE FITTED. |
| Power supply | NONE. |
| Mounting | SURFACE-MOUNT OR RECESSED, hardware included, and a SIDE MIRROR KIT IS INCLUDED for a finished surface-mount look — the only one on this shelf. Assembly is not stated as required. |
| Amazon reference | B001501D0U |
| EAN | 0723085300062 |
Because it cannot do the thing that kills wood cabinets. Five of the seven cabinets on this shelf are particleboard, MDF or "engineered wood", and a wood panel swells permanently once moisture reaches a cut edge — which above a sink is the underside. Anodizing is an electrochemical treatment that grows a hard oxide layer integral to the aluminum, so it does not chip off the way paint does and the metal beneath does not rust. Kohler states it resists rust and chips. YTSMIR, the most expensive cabinet here, publishes metal construction without naming the metal or the treatment.
Because a door that stops at 90° stands square across the front of the cabinet and blocks the shelf nearest the hinge. You can see into the cabinet and not reach the end of it, which on a 20-inch cabinet is a third of the storage. Opening past square — 108° here — swings the door clear. It is the kind of specification that only appears when somebody has used the product, and it is the only hinge angle published on this shelf. The hinges are also two-way adjustable, which is how a door is made to sit square after the cabinet settles.
For the sides of the box. A cabinet that can be recessed has to have plain, unfinished sides, because recessed they are inside the wall and invisible. Surface-mount the same cabinet and those sides are on show at eye level, on the wall beside the mirror. A side mirror kit covers them so the cabinet reads as a mirrored block rather than a box screwed to the wall. Three cabinets on this shelf offer both mounting methods — this, the YTSMIR and the Tangkula — and this is the only one that includes the kit.
Same category, nearby prices, between bathroom fittings. What remains is the specifications every one publishes — half empty, a column is no use.
| Model | Price | Outside dimensions | Depth | Doors and swing | Shelves |
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| Kohler frameless medicine cabinet, 20 × 26 in | $145 | A 20 × 26 in cabinet in Anodized Aluminum, resisting rust and chips — the only metal-bodied cabinet here whose alloy is actually named — mirrored on the interior surfaces as well as the outside. 25.0 lb (11,340 g), about 3.6 sq in of mirrored front per dollar. The catalog figures of 9.72 × 2.80 × 11.7 in (247 × 71 × 297 mm) cannot describe a 20 × 26 in cabinet and are not repeated here. | NOT PUBLISHED — the catalog depth is part of the same unusable figure. | One full-overlay mirrored door with beveled edges, LEFT-HAND OR RIGHT-HAND, on two-way adjustable hinges OPENING 108° — THE ONLY HINGE ANGLE PUBLISHED ON THIS SHELF, and the figure that says whether the door clears the next wall. | Two, adjustable, in TEMPERED GLASS — the only glass shelves here. No shelf load is published. |
| Snughome medicine cabinet with LED lights | $126 | 31.5 × 23.6 × 5.9 in, 14,969 g, about 5.9 sq in of mirrored front per dollar. Moisture-proof engineered wood panels. | 5.9 in. | On SOFT CLOSE hinges. No swing side is stated. | Two, adjustable. No shelf load is published. |
| Tangkula wide mirrored medicine cabinet | $115 | 34.5 × 25.5 × 5 in (876 × 648 × 127 mm) — 34.5 × 5 × 25.5 in, 34.3 × 5.1 × 25.6 in (87 × 13 × 65 cm) — 34.5 IN WIDE, THE WIDEST ON THIS SHELF, and 36.5 lb (16,556 g), the heaviest. About 7.7 sq in of mirrored front per dollar. Premium engineered wood with a waterproof, easy-to-clean surface; no formaldehyde class is published. | 5 in (127 mm) — 5 in. | Three frameless mirror doors on SOFT CLOSE hinges. No swing side is stated. | Six compartments. No shelf load is published. |
| DICTAC 3-door medicine cabinet | $92 | 27.6 × 23.6 × 5.98 in (701 × 599 × 152 mm), a 27.6 × 23.62 in front with a 27.56 × 6 × 23.62 in interior, 29.0 lb (13,154 g), about 7.2 sq in of mirrored front per dollar. High-quality MDF panels, E1 LEVEL — the only formaldehyde class published on this shelf — with a waterproof and moisture-proof painting process. It ships in an 31.5 × 16.5 × 5.3 in (80 × 42 × 13.5 cm) carton. | 5.98 in (152 mm). | Three mirrored doors, opened by a hidden groove at the lower end of each in place of handles. The hinges are high-quality stainless steel, corrosion resistant and silent; SILENT OPERATION IS STATED BUT SOFT-CLOSE IS NOT CLAIMED, and those are not the same thing. | Three, freely adjustable over a 2 in (5 cm) range, rated 10 KG EACH — THE ONLY LOAD FIGURE ON THIS SHELF, and the only cabinet here that tells you what you may actually put on it. |
This model is listed on Amazon.com, at ≈ $145 at the last reading. Listed is not the same as in stock: availability changes daily, and the buy box shows the live price.
Details checked on October 29, 2026.
A bathroom that gets properly steamy, and anyone who wants the cabinet to be the same in ten years
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for bathroom fittings and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
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