Adding Trim To Laminate Cabinets

Start by cutting baseboard trim pieces with mitered corners to create a thick frame on the face of your door.

Adding trim to laminate cabinets.

Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before. Sand down your wood filler and any rough edges. When it comes to changing them structurally adding trim to laminate cabinets is an attractive and popular choice. This is not new information.

Use medium sized decorative trim pieces to create another frame along the inside flat edge of the baseboard pieces. Use wood filler or trim caulk to fill in your seams. And a wider view of the whole kitchen. Once both side pieces are attached you can add the inside trim pieces.

Then take a pencil and mark the strip right above the other trim piece make sure it is marked directly above. Also mark which side is top or bottom to know where they will go after cutting. Day 2 i did half the cabinets got the knobs on back on hinges done. After cutting the pieces to size secure them in place using wood glue and a pin nailer.

How to add trim and paint your laminate cabinets. This is possible by applying a thin veneer of real wood or plastic laminate to the doors. The first problem was that there was no lip on the cabinet in which to add molding. Using wood glue attach your 4 pieces of trim to the front of your cabinet door.

To do this take an mdf strip and placed the edge against the newly added trim piece. So i pulled out a drawer and marked on the trim how long the piece needed to be. As the doors ended so did the top of the cabinet. 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.

The melamine cabinets with oak trim looked so sad next to the bright white and stainless steel. Because i m a little cray. It s possible to fix peeling laminate cabinets by by carefully sliding a piece of sandpaper in between the substrate and the laminate material. Adhere the pieces with wood glue and a pin nailer.

This way works well for me. By sanding there you can remove the left over adhesive that is no longer holding the laminate in place. The frame measures the exact same size as the sides and front of the cabinet. Use wood clamps while glue is drying especially if your wood is a little warped wavy.

Like knobs in done. 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. 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. Cut inside mdf trim pieces for cabinet door.

Day 3 the other half.