NJ Kitchen Cabinets
In this kitchen, we used frameless kitchen cabinets - Frameless Cabinets (also know as European Cabinets), as oppose to Framed or Face-Frame Cabinets (also known as Traditional Cabinets or Framed Cabinets). Many people, in NJ at least, think that frameless cabinets are not as good as face-frame cabinets to prove the opposite, here is an example of NJ Kitchen cabinets, at its best!
Two fundamentally and very different construction methods are employed in cabinet manufacturing today: face-frame and frameless. The traditional method, and the type still used for about two-thirds of NJ kitchen cabinets
are American-made cabinets - face-frame construction (also known as traditional-cabinets).
Face-frame cabinets
As the name implies, have a hardwood frame on the face of the cabinet carcass. This frame attaches to the front raw edges of the 1/2, 3/8 5/8 or 3/4-inch plywood or particleboard sides, adds rigidity to the cabinet and provides a strong base for attaching traditional hinges. The sturdy face-frame makes it possible to use thin plywood backs and eliminate a top panel on base cabinets, though in high end kitchen
cabinets in NJ, our customers prefer that we use them.
Frameless cabinets
More and more NJ kitchen cabinets are now frameless
construction - - the standard for European cabinets and European style cabinets, resembles a box. Sides, back, top and bottom are all made of plywood or particleboard panels, typically wood-veneered or covered with plastic laminate or melamine.
The front edges of these panels are covered with thin laminate banding that matches the sides and the doors on the frameless cabinets, completely overlay the cabinet box with only a slight space showing between them, offering a more continues appearance, unlike most face-frame cabinets that allow the frame to show between lipped doors.
More people in NJ, and in the rest of the US, are now realizing that kitchen cabinets do not need to be face-framed, in order to be of high quality on the contrary they are just as good and in some cases are better. In addition, they offer a bit more storage space and so are very popular in smaller kitchens.
Fact - with the exception of very few examples, outside the US, kitchen cabinets are all frameless!
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