Options – Door Styles

If you are thinking of a variation of an example case on our web, there are a lot of door styles that can be interchanged in most cabinets.

Doors can sit entirely above the face frame of the case or partly inside the frame (“semi-inset”) with half the door above the cabinet frame and overlapping the hole itself and have various edge treatments. Semi-inset doors add texture to the face of the cabinet and can have round over top edges for a softer look or squarer, eased edges which fit a more shaker or mission look.

But more often we incorporate “flush inset” where the door sits inside the door opening and flush with the face frame of the cabinet. Flush inset doors are somewhat more formal and have tight, square and clean looking outer door frames, which does add a small bit of security to your cabinet in that the doors themselves cannot be grabbed by hand and ripped away.

The doors themselves can have various rail pattern to fit the look you desire. While we usually can match other door styles, these below are by far the most common door styles we do. Doors with wider attachments between the vertical and horizontal rails such as in the angled or cathedral frames are stronger by nature and better suited for wide doors with more glass weight. Standard 1.5″ square frames while very common, have the least contact area and are a good choice up to about a 24″ door, after which size we will need to increase the size of the components for added strength.