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A 24 x 30 in metal medicine cabinet, recessed or surface mounted and reversible, with magnetic hinges.
Five of the seven cabinets on this shelf are wood products, and a wood panel in a bathroom swells permanently once water reaches a cut edge.
This one is metal, and so are the shelves — which matters separately, because a wood shelf loaded with bottles sags and stays sagged. DICTAC, the only listing here that publishes a shelf load, rates its MDF shelves at 22 lb (10 kg). Metal shelves do not need the figure.
The body is also described as thickened and reinforced against warping, which is the right concern for a shallow box 30 inches tall.
This is the feature nothing else on this shelf has.
The mirror cabinet can be flipped and reversely installed.
A medicine cabinet has a hinge side, and in a real bathroom that side is decided by a shower screen, a window reveal, or the only stud within reach.
CHOEZON and Kohler let you choose which side the door hinges. This lets you turn the whole box around.
On an awkward wall that is the difference between a cabinet that opens properly and one you edge past every morning.
The shallowest cabinet on this shelf — just under five inches — where the DICTAC is 5.98 in (152 mm).
Shallow is a trade. It will not take a tall bottle standing up. It also projects least over a sink you lean across, and at 30 inches tall that is where your head goes.
Silent close, with magnetic damping rather than a spring or an oil cylinder.
Two other cabinets here publish soft-close. This is the only one that says how.
Three point one square inches of mirrored front per dollar. The least on this shelf, and under a third of the fifty-dollar VASAGLE’s 10.1.
Twenty-four by thirty inches for $229.99, where $114.99 buys thirty-four and a half inches of Tangkula.
What the difference buys is a cabinet that is not a consumable. In a bathroom that genuinely steams — an inside bathroom with poor extraction, a cabinet above a bath — a wood cabinet has a life and this does not.
The metal is not named. “High quality metal”, “waterproof”, “rust-proof” — but no alloy and no surface treatment. Kohler, $85.02 cheaper, publishes anodized aluminum and says the anodizing resists rust and chips, which is specific and checkable. Painted steel, aluminum and stainless steel behave very differently over ten bathroom years.
And “99% true to life reflection accuracy” is not a measurement. There is no standard quantity called reflection accuracy. Distortion free is a meaningful claim about flatness; the percentage attached to it is not.
One practical omission: like the Tangkula, this offers recessed mounting and supplies no side mirror kit, so surface-mounted the plain box sides are on show. Kohler includes one.
Available at around $229.99 on Amazon.com when we checked on October 29, 2026, for delivery to a US address.
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Prices quoted in this text were read on October 29, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Outside dimensions | 30 × 24 × 4.88 in (762 × 609 × 124 mm), a 24 × 30 in front, 33.5 lb (15,200 g), about 3.1 sq in of mirrored front per dollar — THE LEAST ON THIS SHELF, a third of the Vasagle. In gold, silver or matte black, on a selected high quality metal stated wear-resistant, waterproof and rust-proof, with a thickened and reinforced body stated to resist warping — but NO METAL IS NAMED and no surface treatment is published. Its « 99% true to life reflection accuracy » is not a measurable specification. |
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| Depth | 4.88 in (124 mm) — THE SHALLOWEST ON THIS SHELF, 1.10 in (28 mm) less than the deepest here, the DICTAC. |
| Doors and swing | On heavy duty silent close hinges with magnetic damping. The cabinet CAN BE FLIPPED AND REVERSE-INSTALLED for different layouts, which is this shelf's only answer to a door that would open the wrong way. |
| Shelves | Two, sturdy metal, adjustable. No shelf load is published. |
| Lighting | NONE FITTED. |
| Power supply | NONE. |
| Mounting | RECESSED OR SURFACE WALL MOUNTED. After-sales response is stated within 72 hours. |
| Amazon reference | B0F4QXQMGV |
| EAN | 0765477500735 |
The corner. A medicine cabinet has a hinge side, and in a real bathroom the hinge side is often decided by a shower screen, a window reveal or the only stud you can reach. Several cabinets here let you pick which side the door hinges — CHOEZON and Kohler both do. This one goes further: it can be flipped and reverse-installed, so the whole box can be turned around. On an awkward wall that is the difference between a cabinet that opens properly and one you squeeze past. Nothing else on this shelf offers it.
It is the gap in the page. Metal is the right answer for a bathroom — it cannot swell at a cut edge the way the six wood cabinets on this shelf can — and the listing adds that the body is thickened and reinforced and that the shelves are metal too, which means they will not sag. But it never names the alloy or the surface treatment. Kohler, $85.02 cheaper, publishes anodized aluminum and states that the anodizing resists rust and chips, which is a specific and checkable claim. Painted steel, aluminum and stainless behave very differently in a bathroom over ten years. Ask.
Because 24 by 30 inches for $229.99 works out at about 3.1 square inches of mirrored front per dollar, where the fifty-dollar VASAGLE gives 10.1 and the Tangkula 7.7. What the money buys is the metal construction, metal shelves, the reversibility, the recessed option, the magnetic hinges and a choice of three finishes. Whether that is worth three times the glass per dollar depends on where it is going: in a bathroom that genuinely steams, a wood cabinet is a consumable and this is not.
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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| YTSMIR 24 × 30 in medicine cabinet | $230 | 30 × 24 × 4.88 in (762 × 609 × 124 mm), a 24 × 30 in front, 33.5 lb (15,200 g), about 3.1 sq in of mirrored front per dollar — THE LEAST ON THIS SHELF, a third of the Vasagle. In gold, silver or matte black, on a selected high quality metal stated wear-resistant, waterproof and rust-proof, with a thickened and reinforced body stated to resist warping — but NO METAL IS NAMED and no surface treatment is published. Its « 99% true to life reflection accuracy » is not a measurable specification. | 4.88 in (124 mm) — THE SHALLOWEST ON THIS SHELF, 1.10 in (28 mm) less than the deepest here, the DICTAC. | On heavy duty silent close hinges with magnetic damping. The cabinet CAN BE FLIPPED AND REVERSE-INSTALLED for different layouts, which is this shelf's only answer to a door that would open the wrong way. | Two, sturdy metal, adjustable. No shelf load is published. |
| 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. |
This model is listed on Amazon.com, at ≈ $230 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 where the cabinet has to be metal, shallow and hung whichever way round the wall demands
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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