Adding Molding To Plain Cabinet Doors

There are lots of choices.

Adding molding to plain cabinet doors.

We used a spare piece of wood and marked 1 from the edge with chalk. This is an easier way to give your flat cabinet door a makeover. Dress up your plain cabinets with molding around the top to make them more sophisticated. See how you can diy shaker cabinet doors from your existing doors.

Base cap molding is intended to be used to dress up plain baseboards like if you have a house where simple 1 x 3 s or 1 x 4 s were used as baseboards but it can be used for so much more. I actually thought you just now added the crown molding until you showed the transformation over the years at the end. Be sure to factor in the size of the four embellishments for the corners. Adding trim to cabinet doors.

I promised a few weeks back in my laundry room reveal that i would show you some of the problems and creative solutions we had along the way. Ace hardware expert mike jakubowski walks us. Cabinet doors updated with molding on january 4 2012 by kristi 5 if you re looking to update your kitchen but can t afford new cabinets then brandi from don t disturb this groove just may have the perfect idea. I am thinking about doing this to our flat faced cabinet doors and drawers too and i have a couple.

Are you wondering how to update your kitchen cabinet doors for cheap. Add interest to a plain cabinet door by parading pretty trimwork around the door s perimeter. And these drawers once plain and boring. A beautiful upgrade today s tutorial is for adding trim to a cabinet.

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 has obviously been done before. The next step in adding cabinet molding was deciding where to place the molding on the cabinet. This trim is almost as versatile as the panel molding above that i love so much and it s also sold by the linear foot.

We purchased the molding above from lowe s. 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. And is it just me or does the crown molding stand out more now.

Measure your cabinet door to determine how much molding you ll need. We need something simple and on the thinner side. Paint the cabinet molding and embellishments the same color. Use a miter box to cut the molding strips to size.