You can find another very thorough blog and video tutorial in this post.
Upgrading a flat door to 6 panel.
If you have plain flat doors in the interior of your home here is a fast and easy way to update them.
January 29 2016 diy projects.
And the style is limited only by your imagination.
If your door is wood you can use wood glue and tack it with a pin nailer.
Upgrading flat doors is easy to do with just a few pieces of moulding.
Throughout the life of this blog you ve witnessed many diy door transformations like my.
Last week i mentioned that i had a super fun idea to share that involved upgrading the flat doors in the new nursery from boring bland to fun.
Using carved molding and or flat trim to update doors makes for a fairly quick simple and inexpensive update to a flat door.
That s far easier and less expensive than replacing the whole door which would have cost 64 for a standard prehung 6 panel door about 20 for new door casings and a lot more time and effort for installation.
The classic raised panel style will look wonderful in any home tutorial from the painted drawer here on remodelaholic.
If your flat door is metal like ours use a glue such as loctite go2 crystal clear glue to adhere to door.
Once the glue is dry you can fill in any gaps in the.
By doing this you can also increase the value of your home consider this simple diy project an investment on the future of your home.
This easy update only required two pieces of each size of molding which cost just over 18.
This will happen if the door or trim isn t perfectly flat.
You may have gaps between the trim and the door.
The easiest flat panel door update ever.