Adding Trim To Laminate Cabinet Doors

The melamine cabinets with oak trim looked so sad next to the bright white and stainless steel.

Adding trim to laminate cabinet doors.

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. Start by cutting baseboard trim pieces with mitered corners to create a thick frame on the face of your door. After cutting the pieces to size secure them in place using wood glue and a pin nailer. Add your own trim to a simple slab cabinet door.

But looked too thick i would appreciate any info. 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. 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. 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.

How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets. And a wider view of the whole kitchen. 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. Using wood glue attach your 4 pieces of trim to the front of your cabinet door.

I m no stranger to budget cabinet door makeovers myself. 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. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before. 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.

Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before. The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding. But all these new things made the rest of the kitchen more drab than ever. This will remove dust to help the liquid nails or wood glue adhere.

Use wood filler or trim caulk to fill in your seams. Adhere the pieces with wood glue and a pin nailer. Use medium sized decorative trim pieces to create another frame along the inside flat edge of the baseboard pieces. The frame measures the exact same size as the sides and front of the cabinet.

Use wood clamps while glue is drying especially if your wood is a little warped wavy. As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. 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. Then take a dry cloth and wipe both mdf trim pieces and cabinet door.