How To order you cabinets doors
1. PICK YOUR DOOR STYLE
North Country Door has been offering high quality, custom cabinet doors manufactured in New England for 40 years. Our team members have been with the company for many years and are ready to assist you in specifying the custom door you require. First you must determine the style of cabinet you have. It can be a Partial Overlay, Full Overlay or Inset style as described below.
Partial Overlay
A Partial overlay is one of the most popular design choices for cabinet doors. With a partial overlay, the door will not completely cover the cabinet front, and it will leave a bit of space between the doors.
Full Overlay
A Full overlay will create a cleaner look that does not expose any of the cabinet frame. This style is often used with slab style doors, a full overlay design eliminates the space between the doors, which creates a seamless look to the cabinets.
Inset
Unlike the overlay cabinet door sitting on top of the face frame, inset cabinets are completely flush with the cabinet box. This look is typically associated with more traditional styles, but, the measuring must be precise to ensure an even gap around the doors to the frame.
2. Door Options
Raised Cabinet Doors
Raised cabinet doors have a raised center panel that is the same thickness as the stiles and rails. These doors come in a variety of styles.
Flat-Panel Cabinet Doors
Flat-panel cabinet doors have a recessed panel that is thinner than the stiles and rails. Flat-panel cabinet doors also come in various wood and panel styles but tend to be more simple in design than raised panels.
Slab Cabinet Doors
Slab cabinet doors consist of one piece of wood. They are easy to customize with outside edges and tend to match the frame of the door if a solid wood door that will be clear finished is desired.
Shaker Cabinet Doors
Shaker cabinet doors are technically a flat panel, but we think they are common enough to be designated as their own type. This style of door has been around for over 200 years because they are simple, clean, and work well in every kitchen design.
3. Pick Your Finish
Primer Finish
Primer: All of our unfinished cabinet doors are suitable for paint, but we also supply the doors with a white primer finish ready to paint.
Clear Coat Finish
Clear Coat: If you like the look of natural wood a clear coat is a way to go to protect your cabinets from everyday wear and tear. We utilize a water-based premium grade clear designed for coating cabinetry.
Unfinished
Unfinished: Your doors can be provided unfinished with no final hand sanding so you can sand the edges to the radius you prefer or we can perform a polish sand that will break all the edges and provide a smooth surface ready for your final finish.
4. Pick Your Material
Our door styles come in a wide variety of wood species.
Paint Grade Wood
Paint Grade wood is more suitable for painting than stain or clear coat due to natural imperfections—like mineral deposits or sap discoloration. All MDF is paint-grade.
Board Run or Natural Grade
Board Run or Natural Grade wood can also have green tints from sapwood or discoloration but has a more even grain pattern. Board run wood can be clear coated or stained, but will not be perfectly even.
Color Match Or Select Grade
Color Match or Select Grade wood is the most even and uniform in color and grain pattern. This is the best material for stain or clear coat.
5. Pick Your Outside Edge
6. Choose Your Prebore
You have the option to have your doors “pre-bored” for European or concealed style hinges of 35 mm diameter. The door will be ready for its hinges when you are ready to install the door.
There are two important measurements when it comes to boring: placement and distance. Placement is the space from the top or bottom of the cabinet door to the center of the bore-hole (or cup). We can provide any placement dimension you wish but, the standard we use is 3 1/2” placements.
The distance is measured from the edge, or side, of the cabinet door to the closest point of the bore-hole (or cup). For this we use ⅛” for a standard distance but can accomodate other measurements if you wish.