Filling Grooves In Cabinet Doors

We decided to keep handles knobs off of the doors.

Filling grooves in cabinet doors.

Many doors would be routed out around the back edges so that they inset into the cabinet frame. Short of replacing all the doors i don t see any way to update. The cabinet doors have grooves underneath of them for easy opening. Filling in routed recesses in cabinet doors re.

I ll show how the cabinets turned out after more coats of paint when i reveal the temporary updates to the entire room. There are varieties of detailed designing done on home projects including furniture doors windows cabinet doors table legs and so on. If your cabinets have a narrow shallow routed design you may not need to fill the grooves before hanging the wallpaper on the door faces. Simply use an automotive filler like bondo to fill in the grooves allow to dry and sand flush with the surface.

Fill sections with wood filler enough to completely fill the void sand. While you are keen on doing some sanding in this woodwork the grooves can be a tight spot to reach. Then clicked my way over to lisa s blog a vintage vine for all the details. An electric sander makes this job waaaay easier and less time consuming than if you were to do it by hand.

I would like get rid of the vertical grooves in the cabinet doors add a little molding and paint the doors white to make them a little more contemporary country. Apply stripper to the wood with a paintbrush. Mix it up by adding a little water at a time until you get the consistancy you want from thick paste to. The doors are solid wood and the boxes are very well made custom work so i don t want to get new stuff nor can i really afford replacing them with the same quality.

It is a powder and you mix it with water. I initially saw the idea while browsing pinterest. Strip the finish from the faces of the cabinet parts that have carvings. Perhaps you could settle on a door style and replace a few at a time as budget allows.

And that s basically it. Give the stripper time to dissolve the finish then scrape it away. There is a product called durhams wood filler. I love the barn door inspired cabinets.

Cabinetmakers use these types of fillers on surfaces to be painted because it dries. These details are further emphasized with grooves. Wow i ve seen kitchens where the base and wall cabinet doors were different but nothing like what you seem to have.