Custom face frames allow the customer to do the following.
Face frame cabinet doors.
Available gap options include.
American cabinet manufacturers have traditionally built cabinets using a framed construction.
Order custom configured frames sizes for cabinet they construct create unique cabinets within our rta cabinet program by deleting the standard frame doors drawer fronts and then ordering a custom configured face frame which snaps right on the cabinet.
Framed cabinets are the more traditional style of american built cabinets.
The hinges on framed cabinets are installed on the frame and the cabinet door sits on the outside of the face frame.
The door and drawer faces are slightly smaller than the openings and recessed to align with the face frame.
Inset standard and full.
Framed cabinets offer three types of overlays.
In this type of cabinet construction the rails and stiles form a 1 1 2 inch face frame at the front of the cabinet box.
The amount of cabinet face frame or box visible when the doors and drawers are closed is called the reveal.
A face frame does a better job of this if it overlaps the box edges a bit.
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.
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.