CNC Cabinetry Alexandria Espresso AB11
The Alexandria door takes a classic shape and removes most of the ornament from it. The CNC Cabinetry Alexandria Espresso AB11 is a five piece solid wood door with a three inch rail, mitered styling and a center panel that steps back rather than standing proud, carried in a deep brown. HM Cabinetry keeps the Alexandria Espresso AB11 door at the East Brunswick showroom, next to the heavier raised panels for comparison.
What is built into the CNC Cabinetry Alexandria Espresso AB11
A three inch rail with a flat recessed center is a lot of frame and very little decoration, and that is what gives this door its cleaner reading. The CNC Cabinetry Alexandria Espresso AB11 uses mortise and tenon joinery at the corners with a reversed raised panel in solid MDF veneer. The box behind the door is the interlock build with stainless steel drawer glides.
• Full overlay five piece solid wood door with a 3 inch rail
• Reversed raised solid MDF veneer center panel
• Mitered styling with a flat center panel
• Espresso finish on birch with mortise and tenon construction
• Full 1/2 inch plywood back installed with the interlock system and screwed top and bottom
• 1/2 inch plywood sides with a light maple veneer interior and a matching finished exterior
• 3/4 inch thick, 1 1/2 inch wide kiln dried solid hardwood frame, interlock installed
• 3/4 inch plywood shelves, fully adjustable
• Heavy duty concealed steel hinges, six way adjustable with soft close
• 3/4 inch solid wood dovetail drawers on stainless steel full extension undermount glides
More about CNC Cabinetry Alexandria Espresso AB11
Espresso on a simplified profile makes a different kitchen from espresso on a traditional one. The heavy arched and cathedral doors of twenty years ago read as dark and busy at the same time, while the CNC Cabinetry Alexandria Espresso AB11 keeps the depth of the finish behind a quiet face, which suits a kitchen that opens into a living space rather than sitting behind a wall. HM Cabinetry runs it that way in open plan Middlesex and Monmouth county houses.
Two things make a dark kitchen work and neither of them is the door. The first is light reaching the counter, which means under cabinet lighting rather than ceiling cans on their own, and the second is contrast somewhere in the room, usually a pale counter or a light floor. The Alexandria box helps with the third part, because the interior is a light maple veneer, so an open cabinet does not read as a black hole. Underneath, the build is a full half inch plywood back on the interlock system, half inch plywood sides, adjustable plywood shelves and dovetail drawers on stainless full extension glides.
Dark doors show hinge drift faster than light ones do, because the reveal between two espresso doors reads as a bright line against the finish. HM Cabinetry sets the six way hinges on the Alexandria Espresso AB11 after the first heating season, handles edge touch up, and orders replacements from the same finish run.
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