Full Overlay Kitchen Cabinet Doors

A full overlay is a cabinet door that conceals the opening to the storage area.

Full overlay kitchen cabinet doors. Inset door overlay is shown in the left image. The overlay refers to the size or type of the door the hinge or how the cabinet is built. This is what makes it a full overlay cabinet door. Full overlay hinges are used for individual cabinets or cabinets on either end of a row of cabinets.

Full overlay is common on frameless construction where. Half or partial overlay hinges are used for a pair of cabinet doors in the middle of. Also called euro style these cabinet doors sit on top of the cabinet frame covering it entirely with gaps of less than anywhere on the cabinet face. They do not have a vertical face frame stile between the two doors which allows homeowners to store larger items in the cabinet without having to work around the center stile needed in a standard overlay cabinet.

The pros of full overlay cabinets. Full overlay cabinets take less skill to install and are therefore less expensive. Full overlay cabinet doors. The cabinet door is actually set within the frame so it s completely flush on.

If your cabinets are designed for full overlay it means that the doors completely overlap the opening on all four sides. This is the first cabinet door type and has been around for centuries. The correct determination for full overlay is typically 3 4 inch on all sides. This type of door or drawer front leaves very little gaps between the adjacent openings so that only a small portion of the cabinet box is visible between units.

Double door cabinets with full overlay come with an additional benefit. The full overlay door is going to be more expensive than a partial overlay. A full overlay door will overlay as much of the cabinet face frame as possible to ensure a nice updated style for your new cabinets. With only 1 4 th of an inch between cabinet doors pulls or knobs are needed.

Full overlay cabinets do come with an additional charge. The door sits on the cabinet face leaving a gap of usually 1 1 inch between the doors allowing the face frame of the. Although full overlay doors do require precision craftsmanship this tends to be a mid range style of cabinet door in terms of price. Here is a picture showing a standard overlay red oak cabinet with partial overlay doors.

Full overlay cabinets also present a unified front since the overall look is smooth this is different from the partial overlay cabinets popular a few decades ago which showed the face frame in the spaces between doors and drawer fronts. Partial overlay cabinets are the most common and least expensive option for your kitchen. A full overlay fully rests on the cabinet opening when it is closed. Plus this style means about an extra inch of space inside the cabinets since the doors aren t closing into the cabinet like inset ones do.