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Chris Friesen Chris Friesen is offline
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Default Have European cabinets gone out of style?

On 05/13/2010 08:33 PM, Robatoy wrote:

The face-frame look, IMHO, allows for a more 'furniturey' look and
works better in a smaller kitchen.

BUT.... I can guarantee you one thing: somebody will disagree with my
take on this. G


Heh...I agree that the face frame looks more furniturey. However, the
frames take up an awful lot of vertical space between drawers. I
rebuilt some of my drawer boxes and it basically meant that I had to use
side mount slides rather than undermount because the face frames took up
too much space.

And if you've only got a skinny little cabinet (9" or so) you lose a
significant fraction of the opening to the frames.

Chris