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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