Flat trim to make kitchen cupboard flat doors into shaker doors.
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Rita Avery
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Does anyone know where to buy the flat trim that you could use to turn flat kitchen cupboard doors into shaker look doors? The trim would be flat and about 1/4 inch thick and 2.5 inches wide. I am in Canada and have looked in the usual hardware online stores and can't find anything.Thank you
9 answers
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Do you have any building supply stores like Home Depot or Lowes near you? They have some nice oak and poplar boards that are near those dimensions.
Darla
on Mar 27, 2015
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I think they call it "screen door trim"
Leigh Rowan
on Mar 28, 2015
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Do you need them to be stain grade or are you painting them? If you are painting you could possibly get some of the nicer 1/4 boards from Lowe's and size them down. I don't know if they have stain grade though.
Hailey
on Mar 28, 2015
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Another trim is wood lattice strips. Found on the same aisle as mouldings. Screen moulding generally has two grooves.
Hope Williams
on Mar 28, 2015
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You can get these pieces of wood at michaels and ac Moore as well as Home Depot they have all different sizes Home Depot will even cut there wood pieces to the sizes you need so just measure the size of your cabinets and tell them what you are trying to do they should be able to help you from there or if you know the exact measurements you need for the wood pieces even better might be a better idea that michaels or ac Moore as they have standard pieces that they don't cut although a lot of different sizes you could also cut them down to the size you need if you are handy and know what to do but if you prefer someone else do the cutting I would go with Home Depot
Theresa Hughes
on Mar 28, 2015
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Thank you so much for the good tips. I will see what will be best for my project.
Rita Avery
on Mar 28, 2015
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Here is a great tutorial: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-flat-cabinet-shaker-style-57961.html and it tells you what type of wood to use.
Mcgypsy9
on Mar 28, 2015
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We just bought some at Lowes. All you do is cut it to the length you need. The width and thickness it comes in is just right Something we have found though is that every door is slightly different. We are having to measure each door before cutting..
Rita White
on Mar 30, 2015
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If you are going to paint the doors, you could use 1/4" MDF board and just cut it to size; if you want to stain or keep the natural look I would think you would want to find the kind of wood your doors are in - Lowes and Home Depot carry 'hobby' board in 1/4" thicknesses - usually mostly oak or poplar but sometimes maple as well. They come in 2, 3, 4 and sometimes 6' lengths. Not cheap as wood goes but it's all been sanded and finished, all you would need to do is cut to length but do as another commenter mentioned measure each door separately they will will be slightly different.
Miriam Kearney
on Mar 30, 2015
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