What's the best way to hang cabinet doors? Mount the hinges to the
doors and then to the face frame, or mount to the face frame and then to
the doors?

I always put the hinge on the door first.


"GrayFox" wrote in message
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What's the best way to hang cabinet doors? Mount the hinges to the
doors and then to the face frame, or mount to the face frame and then to
the doors?

GrayFox wrote:
What's the best way to hang cabinet doors? Mount the hinges to the
doors and then to the face frame, or mount to the face frame and then to
the doors?
Hang the hinge on the door. If the cabinets are built-ins, put blocks
under the door from the floor up to its correct position, mark the screw
holes and go from there. If free standing, lay the cabinet on its back,
position the door and ...

Quite often, some bad words help the situation.
mahalo,
jo4hn

Somewhat related question. I'm going to mount some doors in a cabinet
where the doors are going to be mounted inside an edge frame... sort
of a modern cabinet 3/4 thick edges all the way around. I'd like to
"recess" the door so I have a 1/8" reveal. The hinges are non-mortise
type, where they are only one thickness of metal thick, and the two
hinge parts nest one inside a cutout of the other.

Normally, I mount the hinges to the doors first, and then set up the
positioning before driving in the screws that hold the hinges to the
cabinet face or sides. To get the reveal I noted, am I going to be
looking for trouble, or do I simply mount the door hinge plate 1/8"
offset so the door will be located 1/8" inwards of the front leading
edge? My hangup is mounting it so that the doors open 170° without
crushing wood.

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:16:36 -0700, jo4hn
wrote:

GrayFox wrote:
What's the best way to hang cabinet doors? Mount the hinges to the
doors and then to the face frame, or mount to the face frame and then to
the doors?
Hang the hinge on the door. If the cabinets are built-ins, put blocks
under the door from the floor up to its correct position, mark the screw
holes and go from there. If free standing, lay the cabinet on its back,
position the door and ...

Quite often, some bad words help the situation.
mahalo,
jo4hn

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:26:42 -0400, wrote:

Somewhat related question. I'm going to mount some doors in a cabinet
where the doors are going to be mounted inside an edge frame... sort
of a modern cabinet 3/4 thick edges all the way around. I'd like to
"recess" the door so I have a 1/8" reveal. The hinges are non-mortise
type, where they are only one thickness of metal thick, and the two
hinge parts nest one inside a cutout of the other.

all of those hinges I have seen are designed for flush or overlay
doors, not recessed. some have a return to screw to the back of the
door and face frame, some don't. if yours do, and the doors and frames
are the same thickness, you can shim back at the frames.




Normally, I mount the hinges to the doors first, and then set up the
positioning before driving in the screws that hold the hinges to the
cabinet face or sides. To get the reveal I noted, am I going to be
looking for trouble, or do I simply mount the door hinge plate 1/8"
offset so the door will be located 1/8" inwards of the front leading
edge? My hangup is mounting it so that the doors open 170° without
crushing wood.

first thing- the hinge pins must be forward of the face frame.
this recessed door configuration is going to require a little extra
bevel on the knob edge to swing open, and may require a wide gap as
well.

you might consider using soss hinges:

http://www.soss.com/

for this application.