How To Add Molding To Flat Kitchen Cabinet Doors

She updated her flat slab cabinet doors with molding and a fresh coat of paint and the difference is remarkable.

How to add molding to flat kitchen cabinet doors.

The doors started out looking like this. However adding the strips changed the thickness of the doors. Because they abut against each other way closer than the ones in your picture adding the extra thickness means they could no longer open fully. Are you wondering how to update your kitchen cabinet doors for cheap.

We used a spare piece of wood and marked 1 from the edge with chalk. Trim of any type makes cabinet doors appear expensive. The higher the better so you aren t bending down and killing your back. Adding trim to cabinet doors.

The first step in the molding process was picking out the molding. Set up your doors on saw horses or somewhere easy to move around them on all sides. How to use wall molding to reface kitchen cabinets. See how you can diy shaker cabinet doors from your existing doors.

I love what you have done to your cabinets can you tell me what type of trim you used and what the measurements are on the thickness of the trim. Your kitchen looks great. 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. You can attach it to the edges around the perimeter or flat on the face of the door.

Here is how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding trim to the cabinet doors. There are lots of choices. 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. Remove your cabinet doors and place all hardware screws in a ziploc baggy.

Clean your cabinet doors. I transformed all my flat cabinets to shaker style changed the hinges to the hidden european style hinges painted them and they look great. The next step in adding cabinet molding was deciding where to place the molding on the cabinet. But looked too thick i would appreciate.

This technique is also known as a recessed or inset panel. The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding as the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. We purchased the molding above from lowe s. You can use almost any type of wall molding to give cabinets a different appearance.

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