Adding Molding To Old Cabinet Doors

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Adding molding to old cabinet doors.

I used this to make the cabinet doors and drawer fronts in the condo bathroom. You can attach using short nails but for doors that are thin you want to use a strong adhesive. We recently added a new cabinet to an old cabinet box at the dexter house during our kitchen refresh and i was surprised just how easy it was. As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet.

As an amazon associate i earn from qualifying purchases. I used this in my kitchen remodel but that s pretty much the only place i ve used it. Updating interior doors with molding. There is not enough room on drawer fronts or cabinet face frames.

Use wood putty to fill in the gaps at the mitered corners and to fill in any nail holes. In home improvements home projects transformations on 03 18 19. Before painting the doors i pre drilled holes for the hardware. And of course there are the basics quarter round and shoe molding.

The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding. With the four sides of the frame mitered attach the lip molding to the cabinet door first with a thin layer of glue then secure it with a nail gun image 1. After the putty has dried sand prime and paint the cabinet doors image 2. Adding the trim to the doors covered up the old holes for the knobs but i wanted to change their location anyways.

This post may contain affiliate links which means that we earn a small percentage of each sale. A very simple and quick update is to add molding or trim to the cabinet doors. Read on for this easy tutorial plus a video. I put them in the corners of each door because i thought it might be more streamlined to have them all lined at the tops bottoms rather than partially inwards.

Here is how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding trim to the cabinet doors. After receiving lots of questions about the process we decided to put together a diy. As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. Liquid nail is a great product because it s strong and will last.

You will not be adding molding to the faces of the cabinets or drawers only to the sides of the cabinets and fronts of the doors. Add molding or trim to the doors.