These Kitchen Cabinets Had A Cheap Makeover That Looks Like A Million Bucks!

If you have plain cabinets, you can upgrade them to a Shaker style just by adding trim around the doors and drawers.

These DIYer’s picked up some 2″ x .25″ trim from Lowe’s.  (They recommend really measuring out how much you need so you don’t need to make three trips like they did.)

Here is what they had to say about what they would do differently:

Brian cut the trim to size at a 90 degree angle. In retrospect, we should have just cut a straight line. That is how most Shaker cabinets seem to look, and it is a lot easier to measure that way. Oh well, learned for next time. When we removed the existing hardware, it left these ugly holes, so we filled those with wood filler. We also filled the corner seams for a more polished look.

After they painted and replaced the hardware, the transformation was awesome!

What a difference some trim and new hardware make!

Have you ever redone cabinets?  What did you do to spruce them up?

Thank you to elizabethburnsdesign for this great idea and pictures!  See her site for lots more deets on this project and to see what the whole kitchen looked like after they finished the room.