Build style
Choose a cabinet line, or how the cabinets are made. It decides the doors, their colours and how they sit on the boxes throughout the kitchen, and it can be changed later.
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From Vita Cabinetry
Four lines from the catalogue of Vita Cabinetry, a cabinet wholesaler: Vita's own Emerald and three of Fabuwood's, in their own colours. The planner draws them to the trade's standard sizes; the colours are as near as a screen shows them.
Vita Cabinetry
Emerald
- A solid-wood face frame, the doors laid over it
- Shaker doors; drawer fronts 7″ over two of 10⅞″
- Four painted colours and three stained
Door: Emerald (shaker)
Colours: White, Dove, Gray, Blue, Stone, Natural, Pebble
Fabuwood
Allure
- A ¾ × 1½″ face frame with full-overlay doors
- Galaxy shaker doors, or Luxe slab
- Drawer fronts 6¾″ over two of 11¼″, on a 4½″ toe kick
Doors: Galaxy (shaker), Luxe (slab)
Colours: Frost, Dove, Linen, Nickel, Pistachio Green, Indigo, Pitch Black
Fabuwood
Valencia
- Framed inset: the doors sit inside the face frame, on 2¼″ posts
- Lavari inset shaker doors, 2″ stiles
- Three painted colours
Door: Lavari (shaker)
Colours: Frost, Nickel, Indigo
Fabuwood
Illume
- Frameless: the fronts cover the whole box, a hairline between them
- Catalina slab doors in gloss, matte or woodgrain; Tuscany framed doors
- On adjustable feet, behind a toe kick that clips on
Doors: Catalina (slab), Tuscany (shaker)
Colours: Bianco gloss, Bianco matte, Grigio gloss, Carbone matte, Como Ash
Or built to standard sizes
The same cabinets without a maker's line, in the planner's own finishes.
Framed, inset doors
- Doors and drawers sit inside a face frame
- The frame shows around every front
- The traditional American way of building a cabinet
Doors: Shaker, Raised panel, Slab
Framed, full overlay
- A face frame behind doors that cover nearly all of it
- A thin line of the frame shows between the fronts
- The way most stock cabinets are built
Doors: Shaker, Slab, Raised panel
Frameless, full overlay
- Fronts cover the whole box, with a hairline between them
- A little more room inside each cabinet
- Suits a plainer, more modern kitchen
Doors: Shaker, Slab, Raised panel
Frameless, without handles
- Flat fronts opened by a finger pull cut into the edge
- Nothing stands proud of the cabinets
- The plainest way to build
Door: Slab