Cabinets
Whether your dream is to transform your kitchen into "Culinary Art" or to create a stylish environment in another room of the house, American Woodcraft will supply the additional creativity and expertise needed to translate your dream into reality. To guarantee you have a favorable design experience, we select only the foremost designers and showrooms to represent our product line.
American Woodcraft's furniture-like cabinetry has been made from the most desirable raw materials available. We never compromise on the proven fundamentals that make our cabinetry so superior, and seal it with our promise of a limited lifetime warranty.
While you explore this design collection in our gallery, we invite you to consider the diversity of styles we offer. Styles defined by the details-characteristic architectural embellishments, the use of color and door styles. You'll realize immediately why American Woodcraft is unsurpassed in creating the most beautiful living environments in America.
Kitchen Cabinet Door Styles
The fashion in which a door fits over a cabinet box determines its fundamental classification. Doors are classified as being one of five types which include:
- Inset Cabinet Door
- Lipped Cabinet Door
- Partial Overlay
- Full Overlay
- Tambour
Inset doors are designed to sit within the rails and stiles of the cabinet frame. They are tightly fitted between the front edges of the cabinet box. In its truest make, inset doors are only assembled to a framed construction, but recent designs use vertical pilasters to assemble the inset door on frameless cabinets. Some sort of a knob or door pull is needed to open the doors and drawers with this type of door.
Lipped doors are similar to inset doors in that a part of the door still sits within the cabinet frame. Along the entire back edge, a groove is made to fit over the face frame. This groove allows part of the door to rest in the cabinet and leaves the remaining part resting on the surface of the cabinet. Once again, some sort of a knob or door pull is needed to open the doors and drawers.
Partial overlay doors are mounted on the face frame. Overlay is a term used to describe the amount of the face frame that is covered by the cabinet door. The part of the frame that remains visible is often called the reveal. Partial overlay doors typically leave 1 inch of reveal on the face frame. This type of door is the most common type of cabinet door.
Full overlay doors practically cover the entire reveal. Less than one-eighth of an inch is left on the face frame between doors. Full overlay doors are generally found on frameless cabinets but they can still be assembled on framed cabinets as well. Hinges are concealed with this type of door and door knobs or pulls are needed to open the door.
Tambour doors consist of several separate pieces that are aligned together and attached to a flexible backing sheet. This sheet is then installed on a track that allows it to pull up and down like a shade and also slide around a corner.
Once you have selected the type of door you want, you’ll want to think about the different door styles that are available. First thing to focus on is the shape of the door. The options for door styles include:
- Recessed panel
- Raised panel
- Curved panel
- Bead board panel
- Shaker
- Flat slab
Wood Kitchen Cabinets
Wood is one material that will never go out of style. It offers a rich classic appeal that comes in a variety of species. Depending on your own personal taste, you can create the look and feel most desired. The species of wood that you select will have the utmost impact on your kitchen cabinet’s final look.
Types of wood species include:
- Maple (light wood)
- Reclaimed Cypress (light wood native to Louisiana)
- Cherry (mid-dark)
- Oak (light wood)
- Pine (light wood)
- Knotty Alder (pale pinkish-brown to almost white with exposed knots)
- Birch (light wood)
- Hickory (colors ranging from white to a ruddy brown)
- Mahogany (rich in color, reddish)
- Walnut (dark brown to purplish black)
- Ebony (dark wood)
- Ash (light wood)
- Beech (light wood)
- Elm (light wood)
- Chestnut (light wood)
- Butternut (rich in color)
- Rosewood (rich in color)
- Teak (rich in color)