Types of cabinet door overlays.
Overlay types of cabinet doors.
The overlay refers to the size or type of the door the hinge or how the cabinet is built.
When i say overlay i mean the way that the cabinet door sits on the frame of the cabinet box.
The inset cabinetry style is dramatically different than overlay doors.
The inset door closely associated with shaker craftsman and mission styles was the first cabinet door type and has been around for centuries.
Cabinet doors are about more than looks.
Different styles of door indicate different types of frame construction which affects storage space placement and cabinet size.
The cabinet overlay determines the type of hinge you will be using.
Lipped half inset or partial inset.
The amount of overlay determines the type of hinge and door you will be using.
Full overlay hinges are used for individual cabinets or cabinets on either end of a row of cabinets.
Half or partial overlay hinges are used for a pair of cabinet doors in the middle of.
The door and drawer fronts sit inside of the cabinet face frame openings flush with the face frame.
There are four basic types of door mounting options.
Full overlay or euro door.
Overlay is the correlation of your cabinet doors to the cabinet face frames.