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 molding to laminate cabinets.
Add interest to a plain cabinet door by parading pretty trimwork around the door s perimeter.
Yes even stuck on.
This is an easier way to give your flat cabinet door a makeover.
Here is how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding trim to the cabinet doors.
Use a miter box to cut the molding strips to size.
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.
Adding molding can also increase the resale value of your home making it an ideal project for homeowners looking to sell.
However adding the strips changed the thickness of the doors.
The melamine cabinets with oak trim looked so sad next to the bright white and stainless steel.
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.
How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets.
Paint the cabinet molding and embellishments the same color.
Here is what our terrible cabinets looked like before.
Installing molding along the top of your cabinets is performed in the same manner as installing crown.
Adding molding to your upper kitchen cabinets will allow you to quickly and inexpensively update their appearance.
Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before.
But all these new things made the rest of the kitchen more drab than ever.
That were then painted a creamy yellow a decade ago when we moved in then updated with white paint and some crown molding a few years back and now today.
Are you wondering how to update your kitchen cabinet doors for cheap.
And here s what that little cabinet above the fridge looks like now.
It s hard to believe these are the same cabinets original to this house.
Be sure to factor in the size of the four embellishments for the corners.
See how you can diy shaker cabinet doors from your existing doors.
I transformed all my flat cabinets to shaker style changed the hinges to the hidden european style hinges painted them and they look great.