How to Make a DIY Wooden Toilet Seat Cover (by Mariobrossh)

Indice

Have you ever thought about building your own wooden toilet seat? Maybe the plastic one broke, or maybe you're just aiming for a more rustic, handcrafted touch in your bathroom. In this article, we’ll walk you through how to make a DIY wooden toilet lid, using basic tools and materials most DIYers already have. The result is a solid, custom-made seat that adds real character to your bathroom!

What you'll need

Once again, the router mounted underneath the DIY workbench is essential, though we could manage without it by sanding for a while instead. The material used is a pawlonia panel sold at the DIY store labelled as pearwood, costing €7.90.

Rough cutting of the pieces

First, I used double-sided tape to fix the two parts of the old toilet seat to the panel. Then, I proceeded with a rough cut using a jigsaw, roughly following the outline of the part I was copying.

I attached the old board with double-sided tape

Trimming the pieces

The next step is to trim the wood using a bearing-guided flush trim router bit, utilising the old boards as a template.
In other words, by placing the router's bearing against the edge of the old toilet seat, the router will precisely replicate the shape onto the new wooden piece.

Cutting the new toilet seat pieces

Finishing the pieces

Now it's time to refine the pieces by beveling the edges using the appropriate chamfer router bit.

Finishing the pieces with the conical cutter to round the edges

Sanding

Now it's time to move on to sanding, using progressively finer grits (80, 120, 240) until reaching a 400 grit for an optimal result. After each coat of varnish, a light sanding with 400 grit should be done before applying the next coat.

The pieces will be sanded with an increasingly finer grain

Varnishing

The finish was achieved using three coats of water-based wax-effect wood treatment for fixtures by Veleca, also available at DIY stores.

The painting is done with a water-based impregnator

Installing the hardware and final result

As for the hinges, I reused them because I couldn’t find anything other than chrome ones. The original one, made of brass, was sanded to give it a slightly antiqued look, and I treated it with a protective aspirin-based method I read about in a forum article titled: 'An Aspirin for Browning Metals...' So far, it works.
Instead of rubber pads, I used small wooden stoppers made from an ash wood strip.
Here’s the final result:

Final effect of the DIY toilet seat

If you enjoyed the article and have any doubts, questions, or simply want to leave a comment, you can do so in the forum thread where this article originated. You can access it via this link:
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See you next time and take care!
Mariobrossh

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