Transitional is the answer when a kitchen has to sit between a traditional dining room and a newer addition. The 21st Century Sterling Cabinet NJ door takes a solid maple frame around an MDF center panel, finished in a mid gray that does not pull blue or green. HM Cabinetry keeps full size Sterling doors on the showroom floor in East Brunswick, next to the slabs most clients put above them.

The profile is the reason Sterling works in so many rooms. It carries more shape than a shaker rail but stops short of a traditional raised panel, so it reads correctly with both a modern bar pull and a cup pull. The MDF center panel keeps the painted gray flat, with no seam to show through.
• Style: Transitional
• Color: Gray
• Material: Maple
• Overlay: Full overlay
• Full overlay door style
• Transitional door with solid Maple wood door frame
• MDF center panel
• Plywood side
• Soft close drawer and doors
• 6 way adjustable hinges
• Natural finish inside
• 3/4 inch shelves

Painted gray fails in two ways: the panel seam telegraphs through the finish after a dry winter, or the color shifts cool under LED light. The 21st Century Sterling Cabinet NJ door answers the first with an MDF center panel, which does not expand across the grain the way a solid panel does. HM Cabinetry has fitted Sterling in kitchens across Middlesex and Monmouth counties, usually where an older house meets a newer rear addition.
Full overlay changes how the layout has to be drawn. With almost no face frame showing, every reveal between doors is visible, so a cabinet run that is a quarter inch out reads as a crooked line down the whole wall. Sterling covers the complete box list, including narrow fillers, 42 inch wall cabinets for a ceiling height run, drawer bases in 15, 18, 24 and 30 inch widths, and panel ready fronts for the dishwasher and refrigerator. Our team measures the room, draws it in 3D and sets the reveals before anything is ordered. Finished end panels and light rail are specified in the same gray.
Gray is the finish homeowners most often want touched up, because scuffs show on a mid tone faster than on white or brown. HM Cabinetry keeps touch up for the 21st Century Sterling Cabinet NJ finish, adjusts hinges once the house has been through a heating season, and orders replacement doors from the same run. Take a sample home and look at it at night, under your own bulbs.
Send a photo or a rough sketch of your kitchen and we will come back with real numbers for your own layout.