CNC Cabinetry Luxor Espresso L11
Espresso on a flat center panel behaves differently from espresso on a raised one, because there is no profile throwing a shadow across the middle of the door. The CNC Cabinetry Luxor Espresso L11 leans on the two and a half inch frame and the half inch reveal to do that work instead. HM Cabinetry keeps the Luxor Espresso L11 door at the East Brunswick showroom, where the reveal lines are easy to read on a dark run.
What is built into the CNC Cabinetry Luxor Espresso L11
On a dark kitchen the shadow lines are what stops a run reading as one black wall. The CNC Cabinetry Luxor Espresso L11 gets them from the half inch reveal between the doors and from the step where the wide shaker frame meets the flat center panel. The door is solid birch with mortise and tenon corners and a slab drawer front to match.
• 2 1/2 inch wide shaker frame with a flat center panel
• Espresso stain on solid birch with a 1/2 inch reveal
• Mortise and tenon corners with a slab drawer front
• MDF door available in the same profile for painted finishes
• 1/4 inch back set into a 3 inch all plywood surrounding frame
• 1/2 inch plywood end panels, light maple laminate interior with a matching veneer exterior
• 3/4 inch thick, 1 1/2 inch wide kiln dried hardwood frame, glued and nailed under clamp pressure
• 3/4 inch plywood shelves, fully adjustable
• Six way adjustable steel concealed hinges, soft close upgrade available
• 3/4 inch solid wood dovetail drawer sides with a 3/8 inch bottom on epoxy coated steel undermount glides
More about CNC Cabinetry Luxor Espresso L11
Espresso on birch is a stain rather than a paint, which means the grain is still doing something underneath the color. Close up the figure of the wood shows through the dark finish and keeps the door from looking like a laminate panel, and that is the main argument for taking the solid birch door over the MDF one in this line. HM Cabinetry specifies CNC Cabinetry Luxor Espresso L11 for rooms with real daylight, since the finish needs light to show that depth.
A dark framed kitchen has one planning requirement, and it is the interior. Luxor boxes come with a light maple laminate inside, so opening an espresso door does not put you looking into a black hole and a corner cabinet stays usable without a flashlight. Lighting under the wall cabinets does the rest. The build is a quarter inch back in a three inch plywood surround rabbeted into the sides, half inch plywood end panels, a kiln dried hardwood face frame glued and nailed under clamp pressure, and solid wood dovetail drawers with a three eighths inch bottom on epoxy coated undermount glides.
Dust shows on an espresso top rail and almost nowhere else, which is a cloth question rather than a cabinet question. HM Cabinetry sets the six way hinges on the Luxor Espresso L11 after the first heating season so the reveals stay even, handles edge touch up, and orders replacement doors from the same stain run.
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