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does anyone have a kitchen with doors like these I can see?

angelicatownshend

5 years ago

These are the doors we’ve chosen and we are ordering soon. They will be maple and white, but I’m having second thoughts because I’ve never seen what they look like in an actual kitchen. They are a new design at our cabinet maker. Anyone have anything in a similar style? Opinions?

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Debbi Washburn

5 years ago

This cabinet is similar...

Hope that helps!

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chispa
5 years ago
Have you seen what a normal sized door looks like? And a drawer?

Wood-mode has a similar style door (Toulon recessed) and my KD had a kitchen display done in a light gray color. I liked the style quite a bit, but it was too contemporary for my Spanish style house.

I just looked and I deleted those photos since I didn't need them.
jhmarie
5 years ago
I don't have anything to show you and you may already know this, but there will be no grain pattern if they are made of maple. That door was done out of oak. If you are painting, maple and no grain is better usually.
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angelicatownshend
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks, those helped a lot
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Anglophilia
5 years ago
I don't like dark cabinets. TOO much mass when a kitchen already has "mass". I prefer a standard Shaker door.
Fori
5 years ago
It's a great style. Very similar to a classic recessed panel from the '60s that will always look good. (And I'm glad you're not using the finish that is on your sample!)
Oliviag
5 years ago
quite pretty. and, with the bevel, perhaps less of a dust collector than some shaker styles
Michelle misses Sophie
5 years ago
Probably the one thing to be aware of is that with such a wide/shallow bevel, some drawers might need to be slab rather than 5-piece (because the center panel will be too small otherwise).

Also, is that a groove where the bevel meets the center panel? It almost looks like it in the photo (or it's where stain pooled and that makes it look dark like a groove.) Just wondering if that will end up looking grubby or be hard to clean if it is.
angelicatownshend
Original Author
5 years ago
That was the first question I asked. She said you can order the drawers either way, slab or framed. It actually isn’t a groove, but a drop off from that piece to the center panel.
angelicatownshend
Original Author
5 years ago
Like this
Anne Duke
5 years ago
Maple? And white. Why post a picture of charcoal painted oak?
tatts
5 years ago
That maple is doing the best imitation of oak that I've ever seen.

I would never put a door with a tiny crevice like that in a kitchen. I took out a whole kitchen full of doors and drawer fronts like that before I moved in. Gross.
Fori
5 years ago
She posted the dark oak door because it is the door style she's asking about. This is the sample she has because that's what her cabinet shop had to show her.

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