Adding Trim To Old Cabinet Doors

How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets.

Adding trim to old cabinet doors.

Adding trim to cabinet doors. What i ended up doing is transforming my flat doors into shaker style cabinets by simply adding trim to the doors. A gorgeous budget. Use tape to label the backside of your cabinet door and the inside of your cabinets so you know where they should go when you re ready to hang them back up.

As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. Adding trim to cabinets peel and stick floor tile in the kitchen. And a wider view of the whole kitchen. Trim of any type makes cabinet doors appear expensive.

Prep cabinet doors for trim. There are lots of choices. We used titebond wood glue for this step. Sand the doors lightly to remove any dirt and gloss from the old finish.

Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before. 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. Then clean the doors with tsp cleaner or regular dawn dish soap. I briefly considered making completely new doors but as you might expect that can cost quite a bit.

I was shocked how easy this came together. After lots of research and planning i created a plan. Remove all the hardware from the cabinet doors. You can attach it to the edges around the perimeter or flat on the face of the door.

Cut two of the plywood strips to the height of the door and apply wood glue to the backside of each. The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding. 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. I am thinking about doing this to our flat faced cabinet doors and drawers too and i have a couple questions.

I just came across your site. She showed me a pin that led to one life to love s diy beadboard panel doors after seeing the photo i knew it would be a great diy upgrade to make. When my sister brought me on to the topsail beach condo renovation she had a laundry list of diy projects she wanted me to complete one of them was dressing up the hollow flat doors with moulding panels. I am really thinking about giving the cabinets a face lift like you have done.

Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before. And step one would be removing them from the cabinet bases.