On a stained door the mitered corner is where the grain changes direction, and a wide shaker frame leaves plenty of room to see it. The CNC Cabinetry Elegant Nutmeg EB9 carries a mid brown across that frame with a reversed raised center panel and a flat drawer face. HM Cabinetry keeps the Elegant Nutmeg EB9 door at the East Brunswick showroom, where the corners are the first thing to check.

Nutmeg is a mid tone, which is the range that shows wood without darkening the room around it. The CNC Cabinetry Elegant Nutmeg EB9 lays it over birch on a wide shaker frame with mitered corners and a recessed center panel, so the grain runs the length of the rails and the panel step still throws a line. The box behind the door uses the interlock system.
• Full overlay five piece solid wood door with a flat drawer face
• Raised panel door with an MDF veneer center panel
• Reversed raised center panel in a wide shaker style
• Nutmeg finish on birch with mitered 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 steel concealed hinges, six way adjustable with soft close
• 3/4 inch solid wood dovetail drawers on stainless steel full extension undermount glides

The flat drawer face is where this door shows the most wood. A bank of drawer fronts with no frame and no panel gives a long uninterrupted run of grain, and that is the part of a nutmeg kitchen people end up looking at while they stand at the counter. HM Cabinetry puts the deep drawer stacks where that reads best in Middlesex and Monmouth county kitchens, which is usually either side of the range.
Stain across a mitered corner is harder to get even than stain on a butted frame, because the two faces meet at forty five degrees and the grain runs into the joint from both directions. A good door keeps all four corners matched rather than showing one dark edge, and a showroom sample is where to check that. Behind the door the Elegant box is the interlock build, with a full half inch plywood back locked in and screwed top and bottom, half inch plywood sides with a light maple interior, adjustable plywood shelves, and dovetail drawers on stainless full extension glides.
Birch takes a mid brown stain evenly, but every run sits slightly differently and a mid tone makes that easier to see than a dark one. HM Cabinetry orders the whole Elegant Nutmeg EB9 kitchen together, keeps a spare door back for the island, and sets the six way hinges after the first heating season.
Send a photo or a rough sketch of your kitchen and we will come back with real numbers for your own layout.