Adding Molding To Cabinet Doors Before And After

You want it to look flush and you also want to cover your nail holes before painting.

Adding molding to cabinet doors before and after.

Measure your cabinet door to determine how much molding you ll need. This blogger wanted to open up one cabinet for shelving and add trim and fresh paint to the rest of the cabinet doors. Use a miter box to cut the molding strips to size. Opening the cabinet doors and going up through the frame into the wood securing it in place.

Adding trim to kitchen cabinets sometimes the smallest and least expensive changes make the biggest impact. How to add crown molding kitchen cabinets abby lawson adding moulding to upper kitchen cabinets before after our new updated kitchen reveal diy remodel mini makeover crown molding on my kitchen cabinets how to nest how to add crown molding the top of your cabinets young house kitchen cabinet crown molding make them fancy hometalk. The next step in adding cabinet molding was deciding where to place the molding on the cabinet. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before.

You will want to sand over the caulk to get a smooth finish. May 30 2017 9 comments. 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. Paint the cabinet molding and embellishments the same color.

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. Be sure to factor in the size of the four embellishments for the corners. As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. The first step in the molding process was picking out the molding.

Adding crown molding to your kitchen cabinets. After adding the trim pieces to all the cabinet doors sand the edges of the trim to make everything even. 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. We need something simple and on the thinner side.

It s hard to believe these are the same cabinets original to this house. As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding. See the picture below for the before and after sanding.

Another before and here s what that little cabinet above the fridge looks like now. We used a spare piece of wood and marked 1 from the edge with chalk. We purchased the molding above from lowe s.