Adding Trim To Flat Cabinet Doors Before And After

Adding trim to cabinet doors.

Adding trim to flat cabinet doors before and after.

Now looks like this. I was shocked how easy this came together. This blogger wanted to open up one cabinet for shelving and add trim and fresh paint to the rest of the cabinet doors. What i ended up doing is transforming my flat doors into shaker style cabinets by simply adding trim to the doors.

After lots of research and planning i created a plan. So what looked like this before. Adding trim to kitchen cabinets sometimes the smallest and least expensive changes make the biggest impact. The doors started out looking like this and after the molding was applied and the cabinets were painted they now look like this.

See the picture below for the before and after sanding. Sand the mdf shaker cabinet doors. Painful and gave them some character with a little trim. I briefly considered making completely new doors but as you might expect that can cost quite a bit.

You can attach it to the edges around the perimeter or flat on the face of the door. There are lots of choices. Trim of any type makes cabinet doors appear expensive. She updated her flat slab cabinet doors with molding and a fresh coat of paint and the difference is remarkable.

And these drawers once plain and boring and desperately in need of a new paint job now freshly painted and full of life. And what used to look like this.