DIY- Shaker style Upgrade to old cabinet doors ON A BUDGET!!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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I'm glad to have found this video as I've been wanting to update my bathroom and one of the projects was to reverse the doors on my contractor grade white laminate bathroom vanity with soft close hinges. Then adding Shaker trim and painting it with Retique it wood paint to make it look like an antique wood dresser that has been repurposed as a vanity. Last steps will be to change out fixtures from silver tone to antique brass look and add matching hardware to the cabinet and false drawer front. Paint walls and ceiling with Benjamin Moore colonial blue and use a bathtub sealer to freshen the fiberglass insert to a solid white with tile added to the wall header. Finally, an antique round mirror for above the sink.
@@nhtuxie sounds great! Thanks for watching!
This is just what I was looking for so glad I didn't give up looking now and then to see if anyone posted just this! I've been told by many not to bother but this is much better than spending thousands. Thank you!
Glad you found it. Good luck on your journey!
Wow, those are exactly like my old cabinet doors. Perfect!
Hey thanks for watching! If you end up doing something like this with your doors, just make sure to really get the fit right with one door before you start batching them out. I was making mine off sight and were some gaps upon closing some of the doors. Luckily, I found a solution by extending the face frame at some points. Good luck!
Yea mine too lol i started yesterday doing this...not afraid to be a doofus lol
Thank you soooo much. You gave me such helpful direction. I only have 6 doors and no tools, but the glue part really helped. I am a fan!!!
Thanks for watching and for the comment!
I’m starting my research into updating my own 1960’s kitchen and this was very insightful! I will now need to start collecting the tools I’ll need for this massive undertaking.
Good luck and thanks for watching!
Can you rent some of your tools?
I need a handman to do this exact same thing for me right now. Great video.
Hope you find one. Thanks for watching!
I’m updating my 1978 kitchen, and while the cabinets are sound, they have cheapie looking 3/4” plywood doors, like the doors in your video.
My wife and I also decided to add stiles and rails to the original doors to simulate Shaker doors. However, I have run a bunch of the doors through my planer to thin them to 1/2”. I’ve done this because we don’t like the thicker appearance of just gluing the rails and stiles on the plywood.
Of course, my planer’s max capacity is 12 1/2”. And we have quite a few cabinet doors wider than that. I am going to experiment with splitting a couple of doors down the middle, planing them to 1/2”, then gluing the halves back together before adding the rails and stiles.
My first thought has been to slot the cut edge of each half and glue a full length spline into the slot to strengthen the joint. Guess in the next couple days I’ll see how that works out. 😂
The spline seems like a good idea. I guess the key is to minimize any seem. The rails and stiles should keep it together. Good luck!
Wow that a big undertaking. Did you say 28 doors? Hope you'll post a picture or a short video of the completed project.
I will try to. The client will do the final painting and then I'll help them hang them. Thanks for checking it out!
Thank goodness I found this. Instead of investing $15-20k on a new cabinets, I can spend that money on all this wood working equipment and then do this job myself. When it comes to doing a kitchen, can we just agree that it’s going to be expensive regardless of the decision?
It's very true. Things are expensive. I used about $500 worth of equipment on this project but I also have several years of valuable experience with using that equipment. The planer was a luxury that could have been replaced with the sander. I made these doors for a friend and charged him $500. I have another kitchen job coming up where I'm making new doors from scratch. I'll be charging less than $2000. So yes, not everyone needs to invest in tools but there are much cheaper options if you look for them.
Looking great! What an upgrade!!
Thanks so much you helped me so much I have a kitchen and bathroom with those cabinets
Thanks for watching!
I have to find a carpenter to do that for my cabinets. I wonder if diy is more affordable compared to getting new cabinets.
@@lllee3476 I would say the labor isn't much different than making new doors. I assume most carpenters would only be selling new doors or new cabinets. But I've never shopped around so I don't really know. Thanks for watching!
very good video...thank you for sharing knowledge with all of us.
Thanks for watching!
Nice work. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching!
A lot of work but it’s worth it
I'm going to use faux wood blind slats that I have to upgrade my flat cabinets to shaker cabinets , what do you think? Yea or nay?
@@jennyanimal9046 seems like it would work. Just glue it with construction adhesive, caulk all the seams, a good coat of paint and it should be good. Good Luck!
This was very informative! I do have a question. Regarding the added poplar on the edges where you cut out the inset. what size did you use You mentioned it was 1x6x8. Did you rip each on one down to size? I dont have a table saw and was wondering if I can just buy it that size. Thank you!
Hi, thanks for watching. I'm afraid the smallest I've seen poplar sold is in the 1x2 category. I was basically cutting strips that were half inch or 3/4 inch. If it's something you want to try, I would say your best bet is to know someone with a table saw that can rip some boards down for you. Good Luck!
Excellent. I have the same project in the works. Did you have any drawers?
No drawers. My friend just painted them as they were. Thanks for watching!
Was the 1/4 inch material just pine plywood?
Yes, I Believe it was. Thanks for watching!
Thank you! Thank you for the video. Doing a kitchen Reno and you inspired me to do this with my cabinet doors and save a lot of $
What if your old cabinet doors are already painted? They have old slats on them and I want to make the doors smooth and paint them a nice light sage green color. So I'm thinking I might just fill the cracks between each slat with wood filler putty or something then put primer over it and then paint it but I don't plan on taking off the old paint since it might be lead.
Sounds good to me. Maybe just a scuff sand before priming to make sure there's good adherence. Good luck!
@@wooddoofus thank you for the feedback 😄
With the popular did you add it every lip you removed or just one side?
For the most part, it was every lip that was cut off was also replaced with a poplar strip. Some of my doors were unique and only needed 3 sides replaced. It was very tricky to have the width correct when I was going from notched-in doors to overlapped doors. Being on site would have helped but I was 30 mins away. Good luck!
thats how my cabinets were I wanted to do the shaker look and i used water based primer zinseer bulls eye 1 2 3 and used shermin williams paint for the color but by the knobs i get alot of discoloration and peeling .. do you have any suggestions
All I can say is that I think it it helped me to plane off or sand off the old sealer down to the wood. Perhaps you can sand just the spot that are peeling and then add more primer. It's possible the oil based would be more effective although harder to use. Good luck!
Did you put the popular on top and bottom and sides
For some doors, I put them on all four sides. Some only 3 sides. The kitchen was so non-uniform that each door had to be considered differently. I would consider fitting each door where it needs to go before you add the shaker trim to be sure it fits over it's opening. I ran into some issues with a few of my doors. It's easier to do adjustments earlier than at the end. Good luck!
Does Poplar twist?
I've found it to be one of the more stable woods. Great for paint grade projects. I use it for face frames on almost all of my cabinet projects. Never seen it twist any time I've used it.
@@wooddoofus I think I messed up on my doors then it’s kinda bowing out in the middle maybe because I didn’t use space balls?
I thought Space balls were for keeping a panel from rattling while still leaving room for expansion. It seems like you're making a different kind of door than I was making in this vodeo? Thats cool, I'm just trying to understand.👍
@@wooddoofus yea I’m making it with the routered groove so that the panels fit inside the groove but the poplar bowed out a bit towards the middle of the door it’s very slight though but was wondering if that’s a characteristic of poplar
Okay gotcha. Well, I'm no expert and I lack extensive experience. I wish you well on your project.
Oil based paint only
Don’t play around with that disgusting RV “wood”