Popular Kitchen Cabinet Door Styles

Shaker Style Kitchen Cabinet Door

Kitchen cabinet doors are the true face of your cabinets. While the cabinet boxes are all about function, the doors are about aesthetics. Kitchen cabinet doors come into play whether you are buying new cabinets, completely refacing your existing cabinets, or just switching out a few doors to freshen up your kitchen's look. 

A Shaker style cabinet door, with a solid insert, is a classic door loosely based on the classic Shaker furniture style. It is usually found in natural wood finishes, such as oak, maple, or cherry, though it also comes paint-ready.

Pros

●Easy to find and obtain

●Typically less expensive than other styles

●Matches many kitchen styles

Cons

●Overly used

●Thin inserts prone to breaking

Glass Insert Shaker Style Kitchen Cabinet Door

A variation of the classic wood insert Shaker door, the glass insert door provides a glimpse into the contents of the cabinet. The outer door frame can be natural wood for staining, thermofoil MDF, or paint-ready wood. This airy, open style is perfect for displaying choice tableware.

Pros

●Glass makes the kitchen feel larger

●Good way to display valuable or attractive items

Cons

Greater potential for breakage

●More difficult to keep clean because of the glass

●Unsightly items will be displayed

Slab Style Kitchen Cabinet Door

The slab style kitchen cabinet door style gives your kitchen a smooth, modern flair. A slab style cabinet door is as close to a single, unembellished, ungrooved piece of wood as you can get. Slab kitchen cabinet doors lend themselves well to contemporary style homes. 

Slab-style doors are rarely single slabs of wood, though. Often, they are made from MDF covered in melamine, laminate, or thermofoil. 

Pros

●Perfect way to give your kitchen a mid-century modern look

●Easy to clean

●Pairs well with contemporary kitchen styles

Cons

●For frameless cabinets only

●Often more expensive than traditional styles such as Shaker

●More difficult to obtain than other door styles