cost difference inset vs. full overlay.
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Comments (11)Don't feel you have to enforce vertical symmetry with the need to line the coolers up with the stacked bottles. If slightly wider ones are cheaper and would work, the go with that without a qualm. And i think having them the same dimension actually weakens the overall design, a bit. You'll notice that in colored picture, the bottle stack and the cooler doors don't line up, and it still looks well-balanced. Notice, too, that there's even an optical illusion-created discordance between the stacked bottle rack on the right and the strongly vertical-orientation of the glass-paneled doors to the left on the other side of the TV. So just making those two sides match didn't result in an eye-sweet balance, no matter what the tape measure may say. In your case, I think the strong apparent verticality of the coolers' slab doors may make them seem narrower than they actually are, creating a top heavy look to the wine racks above. This violates the general sense we have that things should be bolder, and stronger-appearing on the base, and successive layers should get lighter, narrower, smaller, or whatever. In our second drawing, with the coolers moved inward, the optical-illusion of their narrowness is resolved. Also it may just be artefacts of the layout but the D-shaped raised trim pattern on the sides of the narrow lower doors strikes me as unattractive. Also door hinging should be book-matched, or disguised to look that way. HTH L....See MorePartial Overlay vs Full Overlay?
Comments (7)I'm getting partial overlay for several reasons (I like the looks of both so looks is not one of them): my cabinets go all the way to the ceiling which is most likely crooked so I would be scraping it with the upper doors, I can also use the extra space on top to install the crown molding (i.e., attach it from the front rather than top of the cabinet). The crown will be tine but it will fit without sacrificing the space. The special corner arrangement I have would require additional fillers for FO, thus, more loss of space. Last but not least, the door style I picked comes as PO (it seems like the doorstyle is either FO or PO but you can't pick a door and a style separately; my experience at least and I had quotes from 3 different places, all said the same). I enclosed a picture of my old kitchen which is not pretty but PO. You can see it's tiny so every inch counts. Here is a link that might be useful: old PO kitchen...See Moreinset vs. full-overlay... decisions...
Comments (29)You have to ask for the type of hinges that have full adjustment (they're normal for most cabinets now a days, but many people who want inset want exposed hinges and these are not exposed). Really, they're only necessary if you live in a house that sees a lot of movement. We do, being in an earth quake zone, on pilings, and in a frost heave area. The adjustable hinges ensure our doors will never stick, but that might be overkill for you. (In the pic you can see both styles...the squirrel cabinet has exposed hinges because it's only an inch deep and does not have room for adjustable hinges...it's a chalk board). I should have mentioned, I also did deeper cabinets, but I was going to even before I did inset. My uppers are all 15" after living with 12" uppers that didn't fit my dinner plates. The few inches is totally NOT noticable, until you open them and see how much more space you have. And as long as you're going with a custom builder...look to bigger lowers as well. We have 27" deep lowers on our stove side and just love them. (No uppers on that run). To me, the look of inset doors isn't necessarily vintage. My kitchen isn't vintage by any stretch of the imagination....I'd instead call it eclectic and classic. We have modern surfaces as well as old world But the inset doors and drawers, to me they say "rich" and I don't mean rich in money :OP But rich in details. Mine have a beaded edge and the detail is just fabulous IMO They're clean lined and classic, and worth every penny....See MoreShiloh Inset or Kraftmaid Full Overlay for about a $3K difference?
Comments (24)We live in St. Louis, so we get all four seasons but not really the extremes of any of them. I'm not worried about swelling at all (maybe I should be but I'm just not!). Good point about the full overlay hiding the seams, although IMO seams are something only someone who has recently renovated a kitchen would ever notice. When my KD was explaining to me the difference between custom and semi-custom and pointing out the seams, I had to really take a second look to understand what he was talking about. There are lots of things like that in kitchen renovations, I think. :) We are about three weeks into our reno so cabinets won't be installed for another couple weeks, but I'll definitely post pictures since I know there are a lot of Shiloh people here!...See Moretdesanti
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