Adding Moldings to your Kitchen Cabinets

With the big problems being taken care of, it was time to put on some  beauty!  That’s my word for moldings:  Beauty.



by The Family Handyman



I began working at the bottom, perhaps avoiding the headache of dealing with crown molding.

I set to find a molding to put at the bottom of the cabinets but couln't find it. I was told it had to be special ordered.

L  Time was kind of a concern but also price (as usual), it wasn’t that cheap! So, once again I got to work at make it myself.

I bought a wall molding that I liked.  On the back of that one, I attached another one that is called “parting bead”

I glued and nailed these two pieces together, cut them as needed (mitered at the corners), and attached them to the bottom of the cabinets.

To the left is the wall molding, the two little lines
represent the nails to attach it to the bottom of the cabinets.



Next step was to attach the molding around the base of the range hood; in this case I used this one:

Then, I continued by closing the gap in between the top of the cabinets and the piece of MDF that was placed to close that open space.  Here I used this:

 It is a very small molding, that once in place looks like this:

I also put another piece of molding a little bit higher than the one before, pretty similar to the one at the bottom of the cabinets.  It was nailed to the piece of MDF to visually break that big empty space.

On the side of the cabinets overlooking the window I also created the look of “recessed” panels with pieces of wood of ¼”x 2.

The crown molding was the last one to be installed.  It wasn’t that bad this time (we had installed it before in our daughter’s bedroom and it was a pain for us to install it that time). Not any more, you can check HERE an easy way to cut crown corners.

After all the moldings were installed, this is how it looked:

Just waiting for caulking, sanding and painting.

The molding at the front of the range hood was glued in place after everything was painted. For that I used “half round”.

After everything was done this how it looks:

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You can click on the next links for:
how to paint the cabinets.
Install a marble backsplash.
Close the space above the kitchen cabinets
Build a range hood.
Build a fridge enclosure.
Update the kitchen island
Tips about installing recessed lights
Final kitchen reveal
Kitchen cost breakdown
1 ½ Year Later How the Kitchen is Holding up


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