Frameless Kitchen Cabinet Construction

One of the easiest cabinet carcasses to build is an upper cabinet and to make it even easier there s no face frame.

Frameless kitchen cabinet construction.

It is made of 3 4 plywood throughout including a full back. The top consists of 2 4 stretchers. This allows you to better utilize the space in the carcass. It has one wide drawer at the top and two doors below that open to an adjustable shelf.

This style is referred to as frameless or european style cabinet. These offer a streamlined appearance and must be very carefully installed to ensure the doors and drawer fronts do not bind into adjacent cabinetry or walls. Hinges that fit the needs of a modern lifestyle and designs that allow for full access are both features associated with our standard cabinet boxes and ensure a well constructed cabinet. Advantages of frameless cabinetry there is more storage space.

The frameless cabinet design i find easiest to build install and provides exceptional strength is the one pictured right. This particular cabinet is a frameless or european style cabinet which basically means that there is no face frame. This is one of the more common base cabinets designs in a kitchen. In frameless cabinet construction the door and drawer faces are nearly the same size as the cabinet box leaving only the smallest portion visible.

Up to a 30 wide standard base cabinet carcass can be constructed out of a single sheet of 4 x 8 plywood. The carcass is made of 3 4 pre finished maple plywood from. Frameless cabinetry is sometimes called full access cabinetry because it offers greater accessibility by eliminating the face frame. Frameless cabinet construction is a european way of manufacturing cabinets that has become popular among american homeowners seeking simple more contemporary cabinet designs.

Kitchen craft s tradition of frameless construction excellence has always started with using the right materials. The lack of an inside edge prevents the perimeter of the cabinet s opening from being blocked off.