Cabinet+Doors

Cabinets, whether they are in kitchens, offices or other furniutre pieces, often have have doors. Doors keep out dust, provide security, and hide the what can sometimes can be mess behind them. Doors are made from many materials including, Solid timber, wood based products and aluminium and glass.

Typical types of timber framed doors

made up of Stiles (vertical frame members), Rails (horizontal frame members) and infill panels

Solid timber panels require timeber to be edge jointed Typical joints are For more information on cupboard doors check out this powerpoint presentation. You need to also download the notes in the file below. Try a google searchfor kitchen cupboard doors: [|Google - Kitchen cupboard doors search]

Here's a site that shows how to adjust fully concealed cabinet hinges: []

you can watch this video to see the a rnage of different door mounting methods including the "American style" using face frames and the "European" method, using frameles construction. media type="youtube" key="tmDiCdUQYOU" height="204" width="253"

Kitchens for the future:
This is a video from Hettich made about the year 2010 and provides a glimpse of how a kitchen might perform in 2015. media type="youtube" key="g5QMrrsTotI" height="204" width="336"

use the video as a discussion starter. Here are some simple questions the video raises? 1. How much embodied energy goes into creating these mechanisms? 2. How useful are they really. why not bend your knees or back or stretch up a little? 3. How much energy is required to run the various features? 4. What alternatives are there? 5. given it was avison in 2 the year 2000 have the ideas been incorporated in new kitchens today?