Face Frame Cabinet
Once you have the face frame cabinets assembled.
Face frame cabinet. I want to use concealed european soft close but always found i had to double up the stock on the edges to use regular inset hinges. Assuming all the edges are flush. The face frame concealed hinges that exist from blum leave a 1 8 gap on the hinge side.
Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. How do you deal with hinges. Wood magazine s kevin boyle shows you this foolproof method expla.
Pilot holes should be pre drilled. Frameless cabinets would be just the cabinet box and the hinge mounting plates then attach to the cabiinet side walls. Quick and easy way to make and attach a face frame to a cabinet using pocket hole screws and glue.
On the outside edge. 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. This allows the screws to anchor more deeply into the attachment points of the adjacent cabinet.
A face frame does a better job of this if it overlaps the box edges a bit. 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. So when the doors overlay the face frame by 1 2 on each opening it also leaves a nice 1 2 gap between the doors and drawer fronts and allows you to see a fair amoun of.
The faceframe is assembled using pockehole screws and atta.
