Woman Does Budget DIY Makeover Of Hollow Core Door

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This woman did a beautiful DIY makeover of an old hollow-core door. At first, she took the door off the hinges and removed the knob. She bought a bundle of wooden ladder trims and sanded them using a palm sander. Afterwards, she affixed the trims onto the door using masking tape and glue. Once the trims were dried, she applied glue to the joints of the wooden trims. Later on, she brushed the door with a layer of primer before painting it in a shade of gray and the doorknob black.

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00:00Hi, I'm Rachelle with Originally Worn and in this video I'm going to show you how to

00:04turn a hollow core door into a farmhouse inspired door for under $10 for the whole door, both

00:13sides.

00:14So the first thing you're going to need to do is take your door off of the hinges and

00:19take your doorknob off if you are going to paint them.

00:23You can check out my other video on how to do that.

00:27If you're not going to paint your hinges you don't need to take your door off to do this.

00:32So here is our door and I would have loved to do like a full panel door with plywood

00:39or to do fancy trim on there, but various reasons that's not going to work.

00:45So what I ended up doing is trying to find the cheapest trim possible.

00:50So this is the trim I was able to get at Lowe's.

00:54This is actually lattice board trim, now it's pretty rough and bad now, but you can

01:00break this down to about 17 cents a foot, which for trim is super cheap.

01:06So it comes in bundles at Lowe's, but you can buy it at individual strips at Menards.

01:12Either way, you'll take these apart and you'll need to sand each piece with a palm sander

01:19with a 40 grit sandpaper in it.

01:22So once you've done that, you'll get kind of like this kind of board, a nice smooth

01:29sanded piece of trim.

01:32The next step you want to do is figure out what type of panels you want and where you

01:36want to place them on the door.

01:38That way you can figure out what your trim measurements need to be.

01:43I'm not going to give you the exact measurements of the boards to cut since there's a million

01:47different sizes of doors, but I am going to tell you what I did to keep my doors consistent.

01:54So I'm going to drop in from three inches from the top, three inches from the side,

02:00three inches from this side, then towards the bottom here, I'm actually going to come

02:07in and make this right here go two and a half inches up from the center of the doorknob

02:13and two and a half inches down.

02:15This will be where the second panel starts.

02:18And then I'm going to do on the bottom, six and a half inches up from the bottom.

02:24That being is because there's usually a little bit of a bigger kind of a spot on the bottom.

02:33If you look at door trim, that's just typically what it is.

02:35So it'll look the most natural.

02:39So I've went ahead then and measured in like the three inches and the three inches and

02:45you can see where I have these lines right there across, which is might be kind of hard

02:48to see in the video and I have it down here.

02:52I'm going to measure from where this point is by the door handle all the way to this

02:57point at the top and make that the longest measurement on my piece of trim here.

03:04So this point is this measurement and this point is the bottom measurement here towards

03:12my door handle.

03:13So you can see, obviously I've already measured this one out and cut it.

03:18I cut it with a miter saw at a 45 degree angle there.

03:24So once you do that, you're going to go along and I'm going to line mine up that I know

03:29is right here and I can kind of use these lines, each point as my guide and this trim

03:37certainly is not perfect.

03:39It's not meant to be.

03:41So, you know, this isn't going to be the most, it might be some, it might kind of twist a

03:46little bit and stuff like that.

03:47If that bothers you, spring for the better trim, spring for the more expensive stuff.

03:52You can still do the same design just with better stuff, but you know, it doesn't bother

03:57me at all.

03:58I kind of like old weird stuff.

04:00So I'm going to go along and cut each of my pieces and kind of frame out all of my spots

04:08and then tape them in place first.

04:12So once you have your trim pieces cut and I have them just taped in place for placement,

04:20you're going to take a caulk gun with some liquid nails in there and one at a time, kind

04:25of pull a piece off.

04:29And this is just like not any fancy tape, it's just a regular old masking tape.

04:34And I just kind of tip it back and you want to make an S pattern kind of down the back

04:40of your piece of board.

04:46Really make sure you like where your board's going to be because this stuff's not going

04:50to be easy to come off.

04:52It might take your veneer of your panel door with it.

04:57I don't know.

04:58I haven't had it happen yet.

04:59So it's certainly kind of goobery and messy and then you'll flip it back and kind of hit

05:06it back into place with your other pieces you have there and then tape them back and

05:13go around and do that for each one while they're all still wet.

05:21That way in case if you need to kind of adjust one, if they're all still wet, you can kind

05:25of push it and maneuver it and make it fit together a little bit better.

05:32Also you're going to need to let all this liquid nails wood trim dry overnight then.

05:38After your liquid nails has dried, you could go ahead and paint but if you want a really

05:44nice finished look, you'll take some paintable silicone here and this is for all trim and

05:50you can run a bead of it kind of down in there.

05:55I'm not the best caulker in the world here, but that's all right.

06:02You kind of will run a bead on all the joints and then I actually, sorry I'm trying to do

06:09this with one hand, will take my finger and just kind of clean it back up like that.

06:21I'm sure there's a better way to do this.

06:24This is just how I do it and then I'll take a paper towel and clean that up.

06:30It's paintable, but it does take a while to dry.

06:32If you do not buy the, I think it's a 20 minute dry time.

06:37I didn't and so I'll just let mine dry overnight.

06:42Once your caulk is dry, put a layer of Annie Sloan paint all over it for your primer.

06:50I'm using this because it really covers well as you can see this color is country gray

06:56and it requires that I don't sand or do anything else to this surface.

07:01I can just straight over paint and then it'll kind of blend this raw wood in with this kind

07:07of slick fake wood.

07:09The final step you're going to do is paint whatever you want your door color to be.

07:15I'm painting my whole door in a Sherwin Williams color called Amazing Gray.

07:22Since the Annie Sloan paint grabs the latex paint so wonderfully, you usually only need

07:28one coat, but do one or two coats, let dry and then reattach.

07:36Here you have the finished door all hung back up.

07:43It really was a quick and easy way to make these hollow core doors have a little bit

07:49more interest.

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