See the picture below for the before and after sanding.
Adding trim to flat cabinet doors before and after.
I briefly considered making completely new doors but as you might expect that can cost quite a bit.
So what looked like this before.
What i ended up doing is transforming my flat doors into shaker style cabinets by simply adding trim to the doors.
Adding trim to kitchen cabinets sometimes the smallest and least expensive changes make the biggest impact.
After adding the trim pieces to all the cabinet doors sand the edges of the trim to make everything even.
She updated her flat slab cabinet doors with molding and a fresh coat of paint and the difference is remarkable.
After lots of research and planning i created a plan.
This blogger wanted to open up one cabinet for shelving and add trim and fresh paint to the rest of the cabinet doors.
Trim of any type makes cabinet doors appear expensive.
You can attach it to the edges around the perimeter or flat on the face of the door.
The doors started out looking like this and after the molding was applied and the cabinets were painted they now look like this.
There are lots of choices.
Now looks like this.
Now looks like this.
Sand the mdf shaker cabinet doors.
Painful and gave them some character with a little trim.
And these drawers once plain and boring and desperately in need of a new paint job now freshly painted and full of life.
I was shocked how easy this came together.