Adding Trim To Cabinet Doors

Sand the doors lightly to remove any dirt and gloss from the old finish.

Adding trim to 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. After cutting the.

After lots of research and planning i created a plan. 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. There are lots of choices. How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets.

As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. Sand the mdf shaker cabinet doors. Use medium sized decorative trim pieces to create another frame along the inside flat edge of the baseboard pieces. After adding the trim pieces to all the cabinet doors sand the edges of the trim to make everything even.

Adhere the pieces with wood glue and a pin nailer. Add your own trim to a simple slab cabinet door. From drab to fab. I briefly considered making completely new doors but as you might expect that can cost quite a bit.

What i ended up doing is transforming my flat doors into shaker style cabinets by simply adding trim to the doors. Trim of any type makes cabinet doors appear expensive. We used titebond wood glue for this step. Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before.

See the picture below for the before and after sanding. Then it s time to fill in all the holes and gaps with wood filler or spackling paste. I was shocked how easy this came together. 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.

And a wider view of the whole kitchen. Start by cutting baseboard trim pieces with mitered corners to create a thick frame on the face of your door. Remove all the hardware from the cabinet doors.