Adding Trim To Laminate Cabinets

Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before.

Adding trim to laminate cabinets.

Use wood clamps while glue is drying especially if your wood is a little warped wavy. The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding. Once both side pieces are attached you can add the inside trim pieces. Sand down your wood filler and any rough edges.

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. It s possible to fix peeling laminate cabinets by by carefully sliding a piece of sandpaper in between the substrate and the laminate material. How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets. As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet.

This is not new information. This is possible by applying a thin veneer of real wood or plastic laminate to the doors. Day 2 i did half the cabinets got the knobs on back on hinges done. Using wood glue attach your 4 pieces of trim to the front of your cabinet door.

Also mark which side is top or bottom to know where they will go after cutting. By sanding there you can remove the left over adhesive that is no longer holding the laminate in place. Use wood filler or trim caulk to fill in your seams. Cut inside mdf trim pieces for cabinet door.

To do this take an mdf strip and placed the edge against the newly added trim piece. Like knobs in done. 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. This way works well for me.

After cutting the pieces to size secure them in place using wood glue and a pin nailer. Because i m a little cray. Start by cutting baseboard trim pieces with mitered corners to create a thick frame on the face of your door. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before.

The melamine cabinets with oak trim looked so sad next to the bright white and stainless steel. So i pulled out a drawer and marked on the trim how long the piece needed to be. 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. Add your own trim to a simple slab cabinet door.

Use medium sized decorative trim pieces to create another frame along the inside flat edge of the baseboard pieces. Then take a pencil and mark the strip right above the other trim piece make sure it is marked directly above. Adhere the pieces with wood glue and a pin nailer. 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.

The frame measures the exact same size as the sides and front of the cabinet.