A Complete Guide to Choose the Right Cabinet Hinge

 


Hinges!                                                              
A piece of hardware that has a big effect on the overall performance and visual appearance of your doors, cabinets, and the surrounding. Hence, choosing the right hinges for your cabinets and doors becomes quite important. But it has always been one of the toughest tasks of the cabinetry remodeling projects. 
When choosing the hinges, you will come across endless options. However, considering the cabinetry style and doors you are working on can narrow down this list to a great extent. Here’s a complete guide to choosing the right cabinet hinges types for your cabinet. 
 
Guide to Choose the Right Hinges
  1. Cabinet Style
    Trust us, the cabinet type you are working on plays a crucial role in determining which type of hinges will befit your needs. The two basic cabinet styles include:
 

  • Face-Frame Cabinet: The face-framed cabinets have an additional frame attached to the front edges of the cabinet case. While the regular cabinets have hinges attached to the case, the same is attached to the frame in face-frame cabinets. American-styled hinges are best suited for cabinets that have a face frame.
  • Frameless Cabinet: The frameless cabinets do not have any face. The hinges are directly mounted on the interior of the cabinet case. These cabinetries use European or concealed hinges, hence the name euro-style cabinets.
  1. Door Overlay
The hinges you choose must not only match the cabinet style but, its door style as well. You must consider the door overlay style while finalizing the type of hinges you want. The door overlay style can be broadly categorized into three types. They are:
  • Inset Overlay: The doors in the inset overlay lie in the same plane as the cabinet frame. We suggest you use either the butt hinges, surface mount hinges, or the inset concealed hinges. The concealed hinges are also popular as invisible or European Hinges.
  • Full Overlay: These doors cover the entire cabinet case when closed. Wrap-around and flush-mounted hinges are best suited for full overlay doors. You can also try using the full overlay European concealed hinges or the surface mount ones. 
  • Partial Overlay: The doors made using partial overlay style cover the cabinet case partially when closed. Full and partial wrap-around hinges besides the partial overlay concealed hinges are strongly recommended for such doors. 

  1. Visible vs Concealed Hinges
While the visible hinges create a traditional and vintage aesthetic look, using the concealed hinges offer a lot clean and contemporary look. Although not as popular as contemporary aesthetics, exposed hinges are still quite popular. They are often used intentionally. The butt hinges shall be your priority if, you want to expose your door hinges with class. However, for people desiring a clean exterior appearance, consider European hinges.
  1. Mount vs Mortised
Your plans on how you want to mount the hinges on the doors are just as important. If you do not want to bore holes into your cabinets, surface mount hinges shall be your first choice. The mortised hinges require you to drill holes into your cabinet frames to be mounted. Following are the mounting styles you can choose from:
  1. Surface-mount Hinges
  • Mortised Hinges
  • No-Mortise Hinges
  • Wrap-around Hinges
 
  1. Motion Features
Hinges with motion features are getting increasingly popular among the folks. Their ability to reduce noise while opening or closing is a feature everyone is looking forward to. Here are some of the most common motion features you look for while choosing hinges:
  • Self-Closing Hinges
  • Self-Opening Systems
  • Soft-Close Hinges

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