Full-Overlay Cabinets
Doors and drawers cover nearly the entire cabinet box front with minimal reveal between them — the standard for most modern semi-custom kitchens.
Pros
- Maximizes visible door and drawer surface
- Clean, contemporary reveal lines
- Standard on most semi-custom lines PoshHaus carries
Considerations
- Slightly less traditional than partial-overlay framed cabinets
How Full-Overlay Cabinets are actually built
Full-overlay doors cover nearly the entire face of the cabinet box, leaving only a narrow reveal (often as little as 1/8"–3/16") between adjacent doors and drawers. That's a shift from older "partial-overlay" construction, where a wider strip of the face frame was left visible between each door.
The main advantage is simple: more of the door front is visible and less of the box, which reads as a cleaner, more modern kitchen even on a framed cabinet. It's become the default on almost every semi-custom line built in the last two decades, including all of Cab-Tec's in-stock doors.
Because the reveals are so tight, full-overlay construction also requires accurate box and door manufacturing — too much variance and doors can bump into each other when opened side by side. This is one of the reasons Cab-Tec builds every stocked door with 5-piece mortise-and-tenon construction rather than cutting corners on frame joinery.
Full-Overlay Cabinets across our brands
Real door samples in this style, pulled from the brands we carry.
See Full-Overlay Cabinets in our brand lineup
All of Cab-Tec's in-stock doors, including their Sturbridge profile shown here, use framed, full-overlay, 5-piece construction.
Most of our cabinet brands offer this style across multiple finishes and wood species.
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