Slab doors w/beveled or pillow edge: anybody have them?
I find myself, rather to my surprise, drawn to the kind of slab cabinet doors that have beveled or rounded (pillow?) edges, sort of like this:
There was a discussion a few years ago about the vintage antecedents of this style: http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2602319/painted-slab-doors-in-a-transitional-traditional-kitchen . I like the idea of evoking, if not replicating, the look of earlier-20th-c.-style cabs in this general mode, or the look of old metal cabs.
Anybody have something like this style in new cabs, as opposed to original vintage ones? Or have you found good inspiration pics? I'd be curious to see this style in the context of a whole kitchen and see what kinds of knobs and pulls people have used with them. I'm also wondering whether opting for this style would preclude using any glass in upper cabs, which I'm sort of thinking it would. I would.
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6 years agomollymcbaby those are lovely! I particularly like the way the end panel and the door come together in this detail:
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6 years agoI tried something similar to this, and it went a bit awry. I wasn't exactly looking at pillowed edges--I have a 1915 craftsman and wanted inset doors and overlay drawers like in my dining room built-in.
But when the drawer fronts got here, I didn't like it....something with the profile. I think it needed to be more pillowed, like in your picture.
I could have lived with it but decided to replace with inset shaker drawer fronts to match the doors.
I never had an in-depth discussion with the cabinet seller on exactly how I wanted the overlay drawers to look. I don't think modern drawers could match my built-in, but I think I could have gotten something closer if I'd communicated better what I wanted.
I seem to have cleaned out most of the pics I had saved. Here's one I pinned from GW from cotehele's kitchen. These are new cabinets. The pics are gone from the original thread :(
And here's another I'd pinned:
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6 years agomaddybeagle - If you're still following this post, I just found a good pic of these cabs on the HGTV site - I'm liking them even more now, but I would do mine in a little darker wood stain finish...this is all a bit too 'yellowy' for me. Not a fan of this hardware either...still searching for what I'll use with these cabs.
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