The resulting smooth profile enhances a transitional or contemporary style.
Overlap cabinet door.
Overlay is the correlation of your cabinet doors to the cabinet face frames.
Although full overlay doors do require precision craftsmanship this tends to be a mid range style of cabinet door in terms of price.
The amount of overlay determines the type of hinge and door you will be using.
Full door overlay cabinet styles the doors and drawer fronts almost completely cover the cabinet face.
So the overlay refers to the size or type.
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Full overlay cabinet doors also called euro style these cabinet doors sit on top of the cabinet frame covering it entirely with gaps of less than anywhere on the cabinet face.
The full overlay door is used most often on contemporary especially frameless european style cabinets.
Although where european hinges are used there is a broader range of overlay sizes.
When referring to an overlay door it means the entire door lays on top of the cabinet frame.
A full overlay door will overlay as much of the cabinet face frame as possible to ensure a nice updated style for your new cabinets.
Overlays can come in a variety of sizes but in common applications we most often see a 1 2 overlay or 1 4 overlay.
Of the frame between cabinet units.
It reveals as little as 1 4.