Bathroom shelf/cistern cover

[HiZ]

Evening...
Ive built and tiled a nice surround over my inbuilt cistern and now need something to sit on the top.

I have gloss white vanity unit and would like the same finish. I can buy matching worktop but its not deep enough by 2cm! so im looking for some other ideas. It needs to be finished on 2 of the 4 sides.

Tried looking for shelf units in BnQ etc but can't find a good quality 'melamine' type bit of wood about 80cm long by 23cm deep.

Any suggestions welcome.

cheers

 

[masona]

If I'm reading it right, can you not use tiles with bullnose edge tiles on front?

 

[TicklyT]

When I was adding a small dummy panel to the end of a run of bathroom units I used a piece of MDF, with several coats of primer, rubbed down well between each, finishing with 400 wet or dry, and then a couple of coats of white aerosol appliance enamel. This gave a good match to the gloss white units.

Personally I'd avoid chipboard or ply for this, as there's no problems with filling the 'end grain' with MDF.

For the same job I needed about 800mm X 330mm of worktop. I was lucky enough to pick up a 1.2M 'offcut' of kitchen worktop from the timber cutting section at B&Q for a couple of quid.

 

[noseall]

you can buy pre- primed mdf window board at 300mm deep and up to 5m long.