The door is what people see, and the style you pick changes the room more than the colour does. Five pages here cover the four common profiles, what each costs to clean and to buy, and redooring when only the doors need to change.
The three solid styles sit in a reliable order. A slab is one flat face and the least expensive to make. A shaker adds a frame around a recessed panel and sits in the middle. A raised panel adds shaped profiles and a domed centre, and the extra machining puts it at the top.
Across a whole kitchen that order is worth real money. The gap between slab and raised panel on the same run of cabinets is commonly $1,500 to $4,000. Example range, not a quote. Where the budget is tight, the door profile is usually the first lever worth pulling.
Style should still lead. Slab suits contemporary rooms, raised panel suits traditional ones, and shaker sits comfortably in both, which is why it outsells the others. See slab doors, raised panel and the cost page.
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How it works
How New Doors Are Ordered
Measure every opening
Doors are made to your openings, not to a catalogue size. Every opening is measured individually, because kitchens settle and two that look identical rarely are.
Decide the overlay
Overlay is how far the door covers the frame, and changing it changes every door size and every reveal in the room. It is decided before the style, not after.
Style, material, finish
Profile, material and finish are chosen together on samples that stay with you. Kitchen lighting changes both wood tone and paint sheen more than people expect.
Build, then fit
Allow three to five weeks between signing and the first morning on site. Fitting is quick by comparison, and every door is aligned before we leave.
Common questions
Cabinet Door Questions, Answered
Styles, price order, cleaning and how long new doors take.
Slab, then shaker, then raised panel. The order follows the machining: a flat face is quick to make, a frame and recessed panel takes longer, and shaped profiles take longest. Across a kitchen the gap runs into thousands.
Slab, because there is nowhere for anything to collect. Shaker is close behind, with just the frame-to-panel joint to wipe. Raised panel takes the most attention, since its contours hold cooking grease and dust.
Three to five weeks to build, because they are made to your openings and overlay rather than pulled from stock. Fitting is a day or two. Anyone promising doors next week is selling stock sizes.
It is how far the door sits over the frame. It matters a lot: changing from partial to full overlay changes every door size in the kitchen and closes the gaps between them, which is often what people actually dislike.
Yes, and it is common. Glass fronts on two upper cabinets with solid doors everywhere else, or a different profile on an island, both work. What rarely works is mixing two solid profiles across the same run.
Usually. Older surface and semi-concealed hinges are replaced with concealed cup hinges, which need new bores in the frame. That is a permanent change, so we point it out before the order goes in.
No. Redooring replaces the doors and hinges only. Refacing also veneers the face frames and end panels so everything matches. Redooring costs less and suits frames that already look right.
They asked what I actually disliked and it turned out to be the gaps, not the doors. Changing the overlay fixed it, which nobody else had mentioned.
Yvette M.
Edmonton
★★★★★
Left three door samples with us for a week. Under our kitchen lights the one I was sure about looked completely different, so that week saved me a mistake.
Sean D.
st. Albert
★★★★★
Every opening measured separately. Our 1970s kitchen was not square anywhere and the doors still line up perfectly.
Priti R.
Sherwood Park
★★★★
Good doors and a tidy fit. The five week wait is real, so order earlier than you think you need to.
Andrew K.
Edmonton
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Edmonton cabinet guides
Profiles, overlay, hinges and what to ask before ordering doors.
We bring the profiles you are considering, measure the openings and check the overlay, then quote by the linear foot. Samples stay with you while you decide.
