Adding Trim To Flat Cabinet Doors Before And After

And a wider view of the whole kitchen.

Adding trim to flat cabinet doors before and after.

You can attach it to the edges around the perimeter or flat on the face of the door. So what looked like this before. There are lots of choices. 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.

Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before. This blogger wanted to open up one cabinet for shelving and add trim and fresh paint to the rest of the cabinet doors. Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before. Skinny baseboards and flat front cabinets.

Because they abut against each other way closer than the ones in your picture adding the extra thickness means they could no longer open fully. I transformed all my flat cabinets to shaker style changed the hinges to the hidden european style hinges painted them and they look great. Adding trim to kitchen cabinets sometimes the smallest and least expensive changes make the biggest impact. Now looks like this.

And these drawers once plain and boring and desperately in need of a new paint job now freshly painted and full of life. Then it s time to fill in all the holes and gaps with wood filler or spackling paste. Adding shaker trim to flat panel cabinets. Painful and gave them some character with a little trim.

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. Adding trim to cabinet doors. See the picture below for the before and after sanding. Remove your cabinet doors and place all hardware screws in a ziploc baggy.

Trim of any type makes cabinet doors appear expensive. Now looks like this. However adding the strips changed the thickness of the doors. Make sure they are lined up perfectly with the edge of the cabinet door.