Adding Trim To Kitchen Cabinet Doors

Adding trim to cabinet doors.

Adding trim to kitchen cabinet doors.

You can attach it to the edges around the perimeter or flat on the face of the door. We used titebond wood glue for this step. Cut two of the plywood strips to the height of the door and apply wood glue to the backside of each. I used clorox wipes which did the trick and got all the dirt and grime.

Adding trim to cabinets. One day i was waiting at the paint counter at lowe s there was a bucket of yardsticks and i was thinking that i should buy wood trim that size because it s exactly the look i had in mind flat shaker style and the width of the boards were still small enough for the tiny drawers. There are lots of choices. Sand the doors lightly to remove any dirt and gloss from the old finish.

Set up your doors on saw horses or somewhere easy to move around them on all sides. Trim of any type makes cabinet doors appear expensive. The frame measures the exact same size as the sides and front of the cabinet. The higher the better so you aren t bending down and killing your back.

After 10 minutes press again. Clean your cabinet doors. And i know i would go positively cuckoo with a kitchen of naked cabinets and all the drawer stuff all over the house so i decided to split this up into the span of what became three days. Remove your cabinet doors and place all hardware screws in a ziploc baggy.

Then it s time to fill in all the holes and gaps with wood filler or spackling paste. See the picture below for the before and after sanding. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before. This will assure the bond is firm.

As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. From drab to fab. We built a frame that would sit on top of the cabinet and that we could attach the trim to the frame above the cabinet. November 5 2015 by admin 55 comments.

After adding the trim pieces to all the cabinet doors sand the edges of the trim to make everything even. Place a weight on it and leave it for 10 to 12 hours. If trim is being placed on the cabinet doors that are lying flat the trim should be covered with a plastic wrap. Remove all the hardware from the cabinet doors.

If it is a wooden trim simply nail it to the cabinet.