Add Trim To Laminate Cabinets

Flat front laminate cabinet doors are so plain and basic.

Add trim to laminate cabinets.

How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets. You may have seen that i challenged myself to update our blue master bathroom on a strict budget. Sand the mdf shaker cabinet doors. Add two more pieces perpendicular to the first trim piece to create a cross figure and glue them in place.

This way works well for me. And a wider view of the whole kitchen. See the picture below for the before and after sanding. Day 3 the other half.

Laminate countertops if budget is a top concern then a laminate countertop may be the best choice for your kitchen surface. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before. Because i m a little cray. Adding trim to laminate cabinets to create a shaker style look is an easy and inexpensive way to update your kitchen or bathroom.

Then sand prime and paint the cabinet door. 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. Brush up on laminate kitchen cabinet options and be ready to add a sleek and contemporary design to your kitchen. Use wood filler to fill any gaps between trim pieces.

Laminate cabinets which have a slick plastic coating and typically are white are popular because they offer a clean sterile look and are easy to clean and maintain. This is not new information. After adding the trim pieces to all the cabinet doors sand the edges of the trim to make everything even. Cut angled trim pieces and attach them from corner to corner to create diagonal lines that form an x.

The melamine cabinets with oak trim looked so sad next to the bright white and stainless steel. If not you can check that post out here. 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. Then it s time to fill in all the holes and gaps with wood filler or spackling paste.

Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before. 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.