Shaker Adding Trim To Flat Cabinet Doors

For cabinet doors that are stained use a matching species of hardwood to cut shaker trim.

Shaker adding trim to flat cabinet doors.

Diy mdf shaker cabinet doors. However adding the strips changed the thickness of the doors. You also have to hang them. Adding trim to cabinet doors has obviously been done before.

I am thinking about doing this to our flat faced cabinet doors and drawers too. From drab to fab. Also known as an inset panel door they have a perimeter of hardwood glued to the door. How to build shaker style kitchen cabinet doors on a budget.

From each end using the table saw. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. I found this process to be simple and fun. The first step is prepping the mdf strips.

Now the mdf is cut and the doors are sanded its time to add trim to the cabinet doors. Oh man you guys. After lots of research and planning i created a plan. It s been something i ve wanted to do forever and i finally bit the bullet last week and tackled it.

Typical shaker style uses 3 4 inch for the overlay but if you have existing flat front doors you can. I m so excited about this post i can t even tell you. For doors that are to be painted use alder or mahogany to make the shaker trim. I briefly considered making completely new doors but as you might expect that can cost quite a bit.

I finally had to move on to my final budget friendly option. 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. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work.

Adding trim to 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. What i ended up doing is transforming my flat doors into shaker style cabinets by simply adding trim to the doors. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue.

I transformed all my flat cabinets to shaker style changed the hinges to the hidden european style hinges painted them and they look great. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. November 5 2015 by admin 55 comments. Instead of replacing the bathroom vanity i decided i would add shaker trim to the flat panel doors and paint the vanity to look brand new.

Get help with the hinges.