Face Frame Cabinetry

Walzcraft offers door only and door drawer front face frame components for inside and outside corner configurations.

Face frame cabinetry.

On the outside edge. Partial and full overlay as well as inset cabinet doors can be used with framed cabinets giving you many design possibilities for creating a customized look for your cabinetry. There are two types of face frame cabinet styles. Also frameless base cabinets are usually mounted on top of a separate plinth or toe kick.

Doors or drawer fronts normally overlay the frame but they. There is the american style face frame where the doors lap on top of the face frame and a flush inset style where the doors fit perfectly inside the frame. Thanks to their adjustability european style hinges make mounting doors as easy as assembling them. Begin by drilling 1 3 8 holes 1 2 deep with a forstner bit below.

It works on stiles 1 1 2 in. Framed cabinets are the more traditional style of american built cabinets. American style face frame cabinets typically have large gaps between the doors and show the wood face frame all the way around the door. And up to 1 1 2 in.

Framed cabinets are attached to each other through the width of the face frame. Making the face frame run past all the plywood edges provides a little wiggle room and hides not so perfect saw cuts on the plywood. The hinges on framed cabinets are installed on the frame and the cabinet door sits on the outside of the face frame. A face frame cabinet has a 1 by 2 frame that rims the cabinet s front edges masking the construction and strengthening the box.

This allows the screws to anchor more deeply into the attachment points of the adjacent cabinet. Framed cabinets can accommodate a longer screw length usually 2 1 2 due to the width of the face frame and the solid wood material. European style hinges require 35mm holes but a 1 3 8 bit is close enough. They feature a frame around the face of the cabinet similar to a picture frame or you can imagine a front panel with a space cut out of it.

Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. Transitional areas of cabinetry such as corner cabinets lazy susan applications typically use 90 inside and outside corner face frame configurations. The bessey cabinetry clamp is designed to combine the multiple steps of face frame cabinet installation into one easy process. A face frame does a better job of this if it overlaps the box edges a bit.

Face frame stiles can be tightened aligned pre drilled and fastened while the clamp is in place.