Cubitac Cabinetry DOVER CAFE
Cafe is the middle tone in the Dover range and it is the one that keeps the panel visible. Dark enough to feel warm, light enough that the reversed recess still throws a readable shadow, it does the job espresso cannot and the job latte does not. Cubitac Cabinetry DOVER CAFE suits a kitchen that wants warmth without going dark. HM Cabinetry has the DOVER CAFE door at the East Brunswick showroom between the other two for comparison.
What is built into the Cubitac Cabinetry DOVER CAFE
Dover is a reversed center panel shaker door. The frame runs 3 1/8 inches by 3/4 inch in MDF with mortise and tenon joints, and the panel is a 3/8 inch reversed raised center panel. Drawer fronts repeat the profile at 6 3/4 inches in a 5-piece build. Cubitac Cabinetry DOVER CAFE runs full overlay throughout.
• Reversed center panel shaker door in a warm mid tone Cafe finish
• 3 1/8 inch by 3/4 inch MDF door frame with mortise and tenon joints
• 3/8 inch reversed raised center panel
• Full overlay with 6 3/4 inch 5-piece drawer fronts
• Concealed 6-way adjustable soft-close hinges
• Full-extension soft-close undermount drawer slides
More about Cubitac Cabinetry DOVER CAFE
Mid tones are underused because they photograph poorly and show well in person, which is the opposite of what sells online. A cafe finish holds its shadow line where espresso swallows it, and it carries warmth that a cream door has to borrow from the room around it. HM Cabinetry recommends Cubitac Cabinetry DOVER CAFE when a client likes a dark kitchen in pictures but has a room that cannot afford to lose the light.
This tone sits in the same family as a lot of wood flooring, which is the one risk worth planning around. A cafe cabinet over a similar toned floor leaves the base cabinets with no edge, so the room reads as a single brown surface from the floor up. A floor with more red or more gray in it, or a stone threshold at the base, separates them. The countertop usually solves it from above, where anything light gives the Cubitac Cabinetry DOVER CAFE doors a line to stop against.
HM Cabinetry measures the room, draws it in 3D and levels every box before a door is hung, then sets the hinges again once the doors have settled. A Cubitac Cabinetry DOVER CAFE order is kept to a single production run, which matters on any mid tone finish, since a batch difference is easier to see on a medium color than at either extreme. On a mid tone it is also worth deciding early whether the island matches or contrasts, since cafe is dark enough to carry a lighter island and light enough to sit as the accent itself.
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