Cabinet door replacement overlay woes. Help!

2 years ago

I am measuring my cabinets for a refresh. We are going from these doors to full overlay shaker. I have the rest of the kitchen measured no problem, but this corner is so confusing. I have a double door cabinet next to a 45⁰ corner cabinet. I only have enough clearance for a .5" overlay on the left. So what do I do on the right side? If I do a 1.25" on the right door I will have asymmetrical doors. Do I just do the whole thing 0.5" and get over it so I have two same size doors?
For the center cabinet I have a 2" side stile on both sides. Can I do 1.25" overlay on this big single door? It seems in theory that it will work?
Due to the filler piece on the left hand side of the skinny single cabinet, I think I will have to do 0.5" overlay for that hinge side. Can I have my overlay on the right hand side be 1.25" or will it bind with the corner door?
I am so confused!!!

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herbflavor
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
the nice thing about the existing doors..with lip overlay---- the frame of the cabinet that shows is visually insignificant with nearly flush lip style overlay. The full overlay door will be thicker so any reveal of the frame is pronounced ..... the point is you still have framed cabinets so I wouldnt bother and would just keep what you have. Id change the hardware / get a backsplash and call it done.... anyway the other weird thing will be a protrusion of your thicker door at top... right underneath the detailed molding. Not really a great look. Goal for the question at hand is try to minimize the reveal dimension of the frame part of your cabinets with your size selection of doors.....its not the door size relative to other doors...but how much frame shows in one spot and the difference elsewhere across the run.....as said w thiicker door/ shaker style....you will notice any reveal of the carcass framing. Is someone helping w this? Good Luck. .

a square raised panel door allows edge profile selection so you could work it better with all the molding you have a tthe top. I think If I had to do this ..I would get that aspect coordinated a little better.

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Lindsey Aune
Original Author
2 years ago
Those are some great points I hadn't considered. Thanks for your input!
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