Add Molding To Laminate Cabinets

Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before.

Add molding to laminate cabinets.

How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets. Adding molding can also increase the resale value of your home making it an ideal project for homeowners looking to sell. Use a miter box to cut the molding strips to size. Here is how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding trim to the cabinet doors.

However adding the strips changed the thickness of the doors. And a wider view of the whole kitchen. That were then painted a creamy yellow a decade ago when we moved in then updated with white paint and some crown molding a few years back and now today. 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.

The melamine cabinets with oak trim looked so sad next to the bright white and stainless steel. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before. Measure your cabinet door to determine how much molding you ll need. Be sure to factor in the size of the four embellishments for the corners.

Paint the cabinet molding and embellishments the same color. Yes even stuck on. 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. Add interest to a plain cabinet door by parading pretty trimwork around the door s perimeter.

And here s what that little cabinet above the fridge looks like now. 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. I transformed all my flat cabinets to shaker style changed the hinges to the hidden european style hinges painted them and they look great. Adding molding to your upper kitchen cabinets will allow you to quickly and inexpensively update their appearance.

It s hard to believe these are the same cabinets original to this house. But all these new things made the rest of the kitchen more drab than ever. See how you can diy shaker cabinet doors from your existing doors. 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.