How To Measure Kitchen Cabinet Doors |
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Be sure to double check you
measurements. If you are not using your old doors to order sizes, just add 1"
to the height and width of your cabinet openings for both doors and drawer fronts. This
gives you a 1/2" overlay all the way around the door or drawer front. List each
door separately.
If you have a door
opening that uses two doors butted together, measure
the width of the opening and add 1" , Divide that in half, then subtract
1/16th from each door. This will give you room to adjust the
center gap between the two doors after they are hung. You still add 1"
to the height of the doors. Very
Important! Always list the width
first. (Example 16*28 door / 16*4 drawer front )
What can happen when you
don't? A good example of what can happen concerns the sets of doors over most
refrigerators and sometimes over stoves. The openings in these two places in the
kitchen are often wider than they are tall. That means, if you make the mistake of
listing the height first, the wood grain will be running the wrong way and you will
have to re-order. This is the number one mistake people make when ordering. So
please double check. Remember, measure twice so we only have to cut once. (Of
course this is not a problem with our solid color doors since there is no grain.) What About Lazy Susans? f you have the kind of Lazy Susan door that mounts to a shelving unit and spins around inside the opening, Lazy Susan doors are simple to measure. Simply turn the door around inside the opening to measure the back side. Measure from the outside edge of the door to the point where the doors meet in the back ( left diagram A) and from the top to bottom (left diagram B) and mark your measurement with LS (Example: 11 x 27LS ) List Lazy Susans as 2 doors. The manufacturer will miter the back edges of the 2 doors to create the 90 degree angle you will need when installing them. If you have the kind of Lazy Susan Door that mounts to the outside of the cabinet and both doors swing open with a piano hinge attaching them, it's a little different. Measure one side of the Lazy Susan opening (both sides should be the same, but not always) and add your overlay (usually 1/2") Then subtract 3/4" for the piano hinge to function in the corner (right diagram AA) List your doors separately with hinge boring requested for only one of the doors. You will need to make a note, requesting a square edge profile on one long side of the doors where the piano hinge will attach. |
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Other Things to Consider Our hinges are designed
to fit 1 1/2" minimum styles. (Styles run vertically and rails run
horizontally) If you have 2 doors that hang hinge-to-hinge, you should have a
3" style. If yours is narrower, you can simply screw a length of oak or
pine stained to match your frames to each side of the opening before you measure for the
doors. Adding about 3/4" to each side usually does the trick and keeps the door
centered. You need a minimum or 2" where doors meet hinge-to-hinge. Prepping Drawers |
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