Filling Grooves In Cabinet Doors

I can t thank lisa enough for the inspiration.

Filling grooves in cabinet doors.

Apply stripper to the wood with a paintbrush. It is a powder and you mix it with water. 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. Cabinetmakers use these types of fillers on surfaces to be painted because it dries.

Strip the finish from the faces of the cabinet parts that have carvings. Then clicked my way over to lisa s blog a vintage vine for all the details. Perhaps you could settle on a door style and replace a few at a time as budget allows. An electric sander makes this job waaaay easier and less time consuming than if you were to do it by hand.

While you are keen on doing some sanding in this woodwork the grooves can be a tight spot to reach. Many doors would be routed out around the back edges so that they inset into the cabinet frame. Mix it up by adding a little water at a time until you get the consistancy you want from thick paste to. I don t think filling the grooves is a viable option.

Short of replacing all the doors i don t see any way to update. Filling in routed recesses in cabinet doors re. I love the barn door inspired cabinets. We decided to keep handles knobs off of the doors.

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. There is a product called durhams wood filler. 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. I initially saw the idea while browsing pinterest.

These details are further emphasized with grooves. Fill sections with wood filler enough to completely fill the void sand. There are varieties of detailed designing done on home projects including furniture doors windows cabinet doors table legs and so on. Try a sample run which you can peel off if need be.

And that s basically it. Give the stripper time to dissolve the finish then scrape it away. Wow i ve seen kitchens where the base and wall cabinet doors were different but nothing like what you seem to have.