All materials from Bunnings!
Super easy, inexpensive way to fancy up your doors
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Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community @sjloves. It's wonderful to have you join us, and many thanks for sharing your project.
What an amazing transformation that is! It would be great if you could share some details of how you attached the moulding to the door with our members. I love your choice of handles as well; they're my favourite.
We look forward to seeing all the fabulous projects you have going on at the moment. If you ever need any assistance with them, please let us know.
Mitchell
What an incredible difference you've made in this space. Thanks for sharing your project with us and welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community.
We'd love to see more of your amazing projects.
Stevie
Wow @sjloves I'd love details of the product you used and how you attached it. This would be amazing on every boring 1995 door in my townhouse!
Great work, thank you for posting.
Hello @sjloves
Welcome to Bunnings workshop community. That upgrade really makes it so much more stylish, I've always seen this type of make over but have always wondered about distancing. How much space to do I provide at the sides and top? Is there a fixed rule or do i just say " this looks good" and glue and nail it where I think it will look best? Like the other's said i too am curious to what you used to fix the panels to the door. Did you do any prep work before you attached it? My apologies for the many questions, we would be very much interested to know how you went about it. Any advice or tips you can give would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much for sharing your diy project with the community. We look forward to your future projects and if there is anything we can help with please post it here in workshop.
Cheers,
Red
So we attached the skirting with a fixing gun! Some people use gorilla glue or something similar. After they were attached we filled the holes with no more gap, sanded them and painted them in vivid white.
We filled where the previous handles use to be so we could change the handles and hinges to black
@Ari
We used plain skirting in white! And just filled the joins sanded and painted. There's alot of different styles and mouldings and some people even use quad in heaps of different shapes and designs
@redracer01
We completely made ours up! There's no rule but with wainscoting or paneling, people usually do the bigger rectangle on top and use curved quad.
We wanted to modernise ours so used plain square skirting and just randomly chose our design. You can search pinterest or google for door panel designs and choose from there or just completely wing it like us 😊
There was no prep work, we just used a fixing gun to attach but alot of people use glue or silicone. We then filled the joins and holes, sanded them back, caulked the mouldings and them painted them. Super easy
Thank you so much for sharing your techniques! I'm sure this will come in quite handy for me and the community members who are contemplating of giving our doors a make over. We look forward to seeing all the fabulous projects you have going on at the moment. If you ever need any assistance with them, please let us know.
I love this @sjloves - thanks for sharing. I'll be trying it out on the back of a bathroom door first!
Hi @Ari,
We love seeing projects inspired by other projects, so it would be amazing if you could hit Start a discussion when you tackle this project to share photos during the build and of the end result. Please feel free to reach out if you need a hand along the way. We're here to help.
Love this - plan to do this to my kitchen cupboards (planned lockdown project that hasn't yet eventuated). Can I ask what a "fixing gun" is? Is it just a glue gun - any particular brand? Thank you.
Hello @Caron
Thanks for sharing your query about the fixing gun.
Let me tag @sjloves so that they are made aware of your question. A fixing gun is usually a light-duty gun that fires either staples or small finishing nails to fix light timber to a surface. Often times it is used to hold timber while the applied glue sets. There are many types of nailers or finishing guns here is an example: Ozito Home 12V Staple/Nail Gun.
Some nail guns are very versatile and fire several types of nails. If you are planning to add this to your tool chest I suggest considering what type of projects you are going to use it on. It is a versatile tool and is handy when building small light furniture, birdhouses, or adding drawers to your kitchen.
Please keep us updated. We look forward to seeing your pantry glow-up project once it's finished.
Eric
@sjloves
Hi there
can I have the materials list please? thank you very much
Hello @jessmale
Let me tag @sjloves so that they are made aware of your question. She did mention timber skirting but there are many choices for size. It's great to know that their project inspired you to have a go. If you're planning on doing your own door glow-up project, we would love to see updates while you build it.
If you need further assistance or information, please let us know.
This is gorgeous! Can I ask which type of vivid white paint you used? Was it the low sheen interior wall or some kind of enamel? Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi @meg1,
It's fantastic that you've found this project inspirational! Let me tag @sjloves, so they are alerted to your question.
