Adding Trim To Laminate Cabinet Doors

But looked too thick i would appreciate any info.

Adding trim to laminate cabinet doors.

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. Use wood clamps while glue is drying especially if your wood is a little warped wavy. Adhere the pieces with wood glue and a pin nailer. Sand down your wood filler and any rough edges.

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 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. Using wood glue attach your 4 pieces of trim to the front of your cabinet door. How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets.

After cutting the pieces to size secure them in place using wood glue and a pin nailer. The frame measures the exact same size as the sides and front of the cabinet. This will remove dust to help the liquid nails or wood glue adhere. Yes even stuck on.

Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before. Use wood filler or trim caulk to fill in your seams. As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. Use medium sized decorative trim pieces to create another frame along the inside flat edge of the baseboard pieces.

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. I m no stranger to budget cabinet door makeovers myself. Add your own trim to a simple slab 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.

Then take a dry cloth and wipe both mdf trim pieces and cabinet door. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before. 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. The melamine cabinets with oak trim looked so sad next to the bright white and stainless steel.

But all these new things made the rest of the kitchen more drab than ever. And a wider view of the whole kitchen. 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. When buying new cabinets isn t an option it just takes a little creativity to update what you have.