Inset Style Question
BethA
6 years ago
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flush inset / shaker style - show us your hardware please
Comments (8)We have latches on uppers... and a mix of latches, bin pulls and knobs on lowers. (The knobs are on the island only. We have trash in the island and wanted to be able to open those cabinets easily.) Here is one photo: There are many more at the link.... the link is to my finished kitchen thread: Here is a link that might be useful: photos of my inset cabinets...See MoreQuestion for those with inset cabinets
Comments (5)Each 'box' is just that- a box that fits tight to another cabinet 'box', so the seams between two cabinets would be the same, no matter which style- the seams are tight. The only way of having a seamless look would be if someone made a face frame on site after the boxes were installed. And that would be very custom these days, although 70 years ago they were built like that. If you're buying ready-to-assemble, then there will be no big difference in assembly labor between inset and something else. Inset is usually just a 'subset' of face framed cabinets, that is there is a small frame of wood(long strips of wood that are usually about an inch and 1/2 wide) that covers the 4 front edges of the open box, and then the door either fits flush and inside the framing with a small open 'seam' around the door and the framing, or the door overlaps the framing and is not flush with it. It can overlap a little or a lot. If it overlaps completely it will look just like a "frameless" cabinet when the door is closed. Frameless or european style cabinets do not have the small strips of wood (the frame) to cover up the edges of the sides of the box. They just use a bigger door that hides the edges, and when the door is open, you can see the ends of the sides, top and bottom and usually, these edges have a thin 'banding' or veneer covering - so that you don't see the plies of the plywood....See Morequestions for inset cabinet owners
Comments (11)I have had my inset cabinets for 9 months. They look beautiful, but you lose space in the cabinets using inset. You also cannot get "soft close" for inset. My cabinets close on a magnet and are noisy when I close them. Someone recently told me that full overlay cabinets are better because eventually you can just replace the door and keep the frame. I don't think that would be easy with inset. The paint cracked where the wood seems meet on the frame of the cabinet and, if I had overlay, this would not be visible. I used to think that full overlay was modern and now I know that you can make any door for the full overlay. Full overlay cabinets are often cheaper and definitely cheaper than inset. Keep an open mind and check out cabinets in homes where they are used....See MoreInset or Full Overlay Framed Cabinets....that is the question
Comments (12)Adding to the above, a frameless cabinet is a box, 5 sides of the cube, with a door attached to it. A framed cabinet is a cube with a hole cut out of the 6th side -- creating a frame around the opening on that last side. In either case, the cabinet door covers the 6th side. In the case of a frameless, the door covers the entire opening and the sides of the box material. A framed cabinet has the option of covering all of that frame (full overlay) or just part of it (partial overlay). Maybe that will help you picture the difference. If a frameless cabinet is well built, it should be just as strong as a well made framed cabinet. You may also hear them called European cabinets because they have been the standard in Europe. The IKEA cabinets that seem to be a gold standard for budget cabinetry are frameless cabinets. I have maple painted Brookhaven and WoodMode cabinets as well as knotty cherry WoodMode. All of them are frameless and we love them. We got a lot more drawer space we have much better storage and usable space even though we were limited to the same footprint and took out a corner pantry....See MoreBethA
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