How To Make A Plain Door Look Panelled

Link to the craftsman door trim project.

How to make a plain door look panelled.

And the thing i like about this option is that you can go beyond the ubiquitous 6 panel door and create a unique look for your house. The garage side had been painted brown and was even more of an eye sore. The black paint gives her doors an extra luxurious appeal too. For this project you will need a table to lay your door on hammer to take the door off its hinges tape measure miter saw molding glue and paint.

We thought of a great way to take those plain doors and give them the vintage paneled look. If you really care about the seams on the edge of the door you can purchase an edge veneer meant to cover up the edges of a plywood project to make it look more like a real piece of wood. Adding molding to your flat doors is an inexpensive do it yourself way to go from plain boring doors to elegant updated doors. If you live in an older home odds are that you have plenty of 70 s and 80 s style doors nice and flat.

I imagine it would work easily for this use case as well but as jenna said i think you won t really notice it once everything is said and done. Just your average plain jane flat paneled door. The easiest flat panel door update ever. However this home is old enough to have solid core doors and it would have been a shame to rip those out.

They have two 8 by 10 inch panels at the top with four larger 10 by 24 inch. And purchasing inexpensive new doors adds up because you can t replace just one door. You can give. Panel doors for every budget.

Typical six panel doors have a distinctive look with standard size usually measuring 32 by 80 inches. Throughout the life of this blog you ve witnessed many diy door transformations like my salvaged wood look. How to use molding to make plain doors look paneled. For a flawless paint job be sure to check out these door painting tips and tricks.

You can find another very thorough blog and video tutorial in this post. This step by step tutorial from jenna sue design company takes a plain slab door and turns it into a five panel door. It looks like a million bucks but only costs 12. 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.

Updating a flat panel core door with some trim and bead board to give it a more updated look.