This allows you to choose new kitchen cabinet doors and drawer fronts that either match exactly, like Shaker Cabinet Doors and drawer fronts, or styles that may not match exactly, but work well together. Just as cabinet doors can be either cope and stickor mitered, 5-piece drawer fronts can also be cope and stick or mitered. Replacing Kitchen Cabinet Doors and Drawer Fronts to Match On mitered 5-piece drawer fronts, the stiles and rails are all 1¾ inches wide, allowing most drawer fronts to be built in all mitered styles. This allows the 5-piece drawer front to be smaller in height than stile and rail cabinet doors while maintaining consistency in the size of the stiles for a cohesive look. Notice that, when compared to the cabinet stiles and rails, the cope and stick drawer front has narrower rails than the stiles. stiles is different on drawer fronts and cabinet doors.
From there, you’ll notice the construction of the rails vs. In mitered construction, the stiles and rails meet at a 45 degree angle at the corners. In cope and stick construction, the stiles and rails meet at a 90 degree angle in the corners. Panel: The center piece in the middle of the frame. Stiles: The vertical, or side, parts of the frame. Rails: The horizontal, or top and bottom, parts of the frame. The frame is constructed of 4 pieces, or stiles and rails, with a center panel. As the drawings above show, each door and drawer front has 5 pieces. In order to fully understand cope and stick and mitered designs, it’s helpful to learn about the construction, beginning with learning the parts of a 5-piece cabinet door or drawer front. In the drawing, you can see the different ways the 5-piece designs can fit together. This configuration, drawn below, shows a cope and stick door/drawer front set on the left and a mitered door/drawer front set on the right. When it comes to drawer front sizes, the drawer fronts are usually the same width as the cabinet door they match, while the height is different. There are two 5-piece designs-cope and stick styles and mitered styles-or slab front designs, and understanding the specifics of each design can help you match your new kitchen cabinet doors and drawer fronts.īecause of the configuration of lower cabinets, drawer fronts are often matched with lower cabinet doors since the drawers are right above them. So, where should you get started?įirst, it’s helpful to understand the construction of your cabinet doors in order to help you choose replacement drawer fronts that work with the cabinet door style.
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However, you might not be sure how to choose matching replacement drawer fronts. Almost all cabinet door styles can be purchased with drawer fronts in the same style. Simply let your Simpson door supplier know your project requirements up front and we can build exactly what you need.There are hundreds of differing cabinet door styles and within these cabinet door styles are matching drawer fronts. This thickness allows for multiples refinishes over the life of the door.įor projects that require a thicker veneer, consider 1/8" or 1/4".
As a standard, Simpson uses thick 1/16" veneers for all wood species.
Simpson knows that different projects call for different veneer thickness. By using these selected veneers, surface quality is enhanced. The resulting veneers are dried to a similar moisture content as the core material. The cants are run through a hot water bath to soften the wood fibers to obtain a smooth slice without tearing the grain. Specially selected vertical grain cants are sliced for the stile and rail faces. Inner edge bands are provided so that no finger-joints show in the sticking. The outer edge band blends with surface veneers so that the finger-jointed core is not visible.
Finger-joints are superior joints as they have greater gluing surface for added strength. And all components in the core are finger-jointed, not edge glued. The all-wood core in a Simpson stile provides incredible strength and durability.
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