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How to Add Molding to the Face of Kitchen Cabinets

If your kitchen cabinets are flat, plain and boring, with no surface texture or design to them at all, one solution is to add molding. Trim molding is simply strips of wood that you cut and arrange on the outward-facing surfaces of the cabinet doors to give it depth, creating a paneled look. Get the molding prefinished or finish it yourself before installation, either matching or augmenting the existing finish of the cabinet. Molding can be either stained and varnished or painted.

Things You'll Need

  • Screwdriver
  • Tape measure
  • Masking tape
  • Flat molding
  • Miter saw
  • Carpenter's glue
  • Brad nailer and nails
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Instructions

    • 1

      Remove the cabinet door from its hinges, using a screwdriver.

    • 2

      Lay the door on a work space. Plan your design layout by applying masking tape in square patterns. When you are satisfied with your design, mark your lines lightly with pencil and remove the tape. Measure the top line of your rectangle.

    • 3

      Mark out the measurement on a piece of molding, putting two marks and leaving space beyond each.

    • 4

      Lay the molding on your miter saw with the front side of it facing up at you and the top edge of it running along the saw rail. Slide the piece so one of the marks is under the blade. Turn the blade to 45 degrees inward, toward the center of the molding. Make the cut.

    • 5

      Reposition the trim so the second mark is under the blade. Turn the blade 45 degrees in the opposite direction (so it again points to the middle of the trim). Make the second cut.

    • 6

      Spread carpenter's glue over the back of the molding, making sure to get beads of it near all the edges. Press the piece to the cabinet door with the top of it running along the top of your line, and the two angled cuts pointing inward from each of the upper door corners. Set two nails in the molding with the brad nailer to keep in place while the glue dries.

    • 7

      Repeat the process, measuring and cutting pieces of molding for each of the other sides. The angled cuts at the corners should all butt next to each other, forming a picture frame design on the front of the door.

    • 8

      Repeat the process for each door. Let the glue dry for 24 hours. Put the doors back on their hinges.

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