Precision engineering meets traditional craftsmanship. Our Inset cabinets in Atlanta feature doors and drawers that fit flush within the cabinet frame—a hallmark of high-end, custom furniture. This sophisticated design requires millimetric accuracy, reflecting the professional engineering standards of Rest Cabinetry. Choose Inset for a high-end, handcrafted look that stands out in the Atlanta luxury home market.
Guides for this collection: Inset is the least forgiving way to hang a door, and the reveal is why. Read what the flush inset door costs, frameless against framed and what is inside the cabinet box. If the layout is not settled yet, start with the standard size grid and how to measure your kitchen.
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Inset is the most demanding way to build a cabinet, and it is the one that most looks like furniture. Instead of sitting on top of the frame the way an overlay door does, an inset door sits flush inside it, so the frame stays visible around every door and drawer. That is what gives an inset kitchen its quiet, built-in-joinery look - and it is also why it is the least forgiving style to make. The gap around each door has to be consistent on all four sides, which leaves no room for the tolerances an overlay door hides.
Inset comes in three finishes - Origami White, Truffle Brown and Hazelnut Oak - a painted white, a deep brown and a mid oak, covering the classic inset look and two warmer, more contemporary readings of it. Behind them sit close to 700 cabinet sizes, including wall and base units, tall cabinets, vanities, mouldings and accessories, fillers, panels and sample doors, and a run of wall glass door cabinets. Glass-front units are worth considering in an inset kitchen specifically, because the visible frame already gives the elevation rhythm that a glass door then punctuates. Cabinet boxes are plywood, as across the whole range.
Inset belongs in houses where the cabinetry is meant to be part of the architecture rather than an appliance for storage: period properties, high-specification renovations, butler's pantries and islands meant to read as free-standing furniture. It is also the style to look at if you want a painted kitchen that will still look considered in fifteen years.
Because an inset door closes into the frame rather than over it, the usable opening is slightly smaller than the equivalent overlay cabinet. It is rarely a problem, but it is worth accounting for if you are planning around a specific appliance, a pull-out bin or a fixed-width insert. Send us the dimensions and we will check it before you order.
Inset doors sit inside the frame, so the reveal around them is only ever as even as the box beneath. Of everything we sell this is the RTA collection where squaring each cabinet box before it is fixed pays back most visibly. Build on a flat surface, check the diagonals, level the run, and hang the doors last. If you would rather talk that through before committing to a full kitchen, call us on 470 564-9496 before the order leaves Norcross.
Stocked at 6115 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Suite E, Norcross, for pickup or delivery, tracked. Cabinets, door hinges and drawer glides carry a 12-month limited warranty. Call 470 564-9496 or send your plan.
The doors in this collection are stocked in white, natural wood and brown and espresso. Each colour page lists exactly which finishes are held in Norcross and what the colour does in a room.
Every collection is made up of the same parts - wall cabinets, base cabinets, sink bases, drawer bases, corner units, glass door cabinets and pantry cabinets, closed off with moldings and fillers. The ordering process from measuring to collection is on Atlanta kitchen cabinets, and the same doors are used for bathroom vanities, laundry rooms, mudrooms, office built-ins and closets - see Atlanta cabinetry.
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