Cubitac Cabinetry MILAN SHALE
Shale on a slab is the most unforgiving combination in this brand. A dark gray with no profile to break it means the door is one continuous surface, and every reveal, every fingerprint and every edge reads clearly against it. Cubitac Cabinetry MILAN SHALE rewards a careful install and punishes a rushed one. HM Cabinetry keeps the MILAN SHALE door at the East Brunswick showroom, where it is worth viewing at an angle rather than head on.
What is built into the Cubitac Cabinetry MILAN SHALE
Milan is a 3/4 inch MDF slab with matching slab drawer fronts, so there is no frame and no center panel anywhere on the door. Cubitac Cabinetry MILAN SHALE carries a satin lacquer in a dark gray and runs full overlay with 6 3/4 inch drawer fronts.
• Flat slab door with no frame and no center panel
• 3/4 inch MDF slab doors and matching slab drawer fronts
• Satin lacquer finish in a dark gray Shale tone
• Full overlay with 6 3/4 inch drawer fronts
• Concealed 6-way adjustable soft-close hinges
• Full-extension soft-close undermount drawer slides
More about Cubitac Cabinetry MILAN SHALE
The thing to understand about a dark slab is that it turns the gaps into the design. On a light slab a reveal is a pale line against a pale door. On Shale the gap behind the doors is dark and the door is dark, so what you see instead is the edge of each door catching light, which means a run that is out of square shows up as lines that are not parallel. HM Cabinetry levels and shims a Cubitac Cabinetry MILAN SHALE run before any door is hung, and it takes longer than a shaker kitchen does.
A satin lacquer in a dark color shows hand oil around the pulls, which is the most common complaint about dark modern kitchens and the reason a long bar pull or an edge pull is usually specified rather than a knob. Light matters too. A dark slab absorbs light and offers no profile to create visual interest in its place, so a Cubitac Cabinetry MILAN SHALE kitchen leans on undercabinet lighting and a lighter counter more than a traditional kitchen does.
Cubitac has Milan flagged as discontinuing, so HM Cabinetry confirms availability with the manufacturer before a Cubitac Cabinetry MILAN SHALE order is placed, and we order the kitchen in one run with a spare door held flat. On a dark lacquer a second batch is noticeable, and a replacement door ordered later from different stock will not sit quietly beside the rest of the run. We also plan the exposed ends early, because a finished end panel on a dark slab has to match the doors exactly and cannot be corrected once the run is set.
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