Adding Trim To Laminate Cabinet Doors

After cutting the pieces to size secure them in place using wood glue and a pin nailer.

Adding trim to laminate cabinet doors.

As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. Sand down your wood filler and any rough edges. Adding insult to injury our blue laminate countertops with oak trim were being upstaged by the contact paper covering the countertop of the new cabinet. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before.

Add your own trim to a simple slab cabinet door. But looked too thick i would appreciate any info. But all these new things made the rest of the kitchen more drab than ever. When buying new cabinets isn t an option it just takes a little creativity to update what you have.

Yes even stuck on. Use medium sized decorative trim pieces to create another frame along the inside flat edge of the baseboard pieces. Take the mdf trim pieces off the cabinet door and place them right next to the side they will be installed on putting them right side down. I printed the picture of your trim and took it to lowes and they had no idea what it was i found a piece of mdf that was 1 1 2 in.

The frame measures the exact same size as the sides and front of the cabinet. How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets. Using wood glue attach your 4 pieces of trim to the front of your cabinet door. 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.

Adhere the pieces with wood glue and a pin nailer. This will remove dust to help the liquid nails or wood glue adhere. When i couldn t afford new cabinet doors for my kitchen i had to do a little creative surgery on my double raised panel doors to turn them into recessed panel doors. The melamine cabinets with oak trim looked so sad next to the bright white and stainless steel.

I m no stranger to budget cabinet door makeovers myself. 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. Then take a dry cloth and wipe both mdf trim pieces and cabinet door. Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before.

Use wood filler or trim caulk to fill in your seams. The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding. Start by cutting baseboard trim pieces with mitered corners to create a thick frame on the face of your door. Use wood clamps while glue is drying especially if your wood is a little warped wavy.