Common Kitchen Cabinet Terminology

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1. 1" Overlay
2. 1/2" Overlay
1. Accents
2. Adjustable Shelves
3. Alder Wood
4. Antiquity Glass
5. Appliance Garage
6. Apron Front Sink
7. Arch
8. Ash Wood
9. Aspen
1. Backsplash
2. Ball Bearing Guide
3. Bamboo Wood
4. Base Angle Cabinet
5. Base Cabinet
6. Base Diagonal Corner Cabinet
7. Base End Cabinet
8. Base End Shelf
9. Base Skin
10. Base Spice Pull-out
11. Baseboard
12. Beadboard Paneling
13. Beech Wood
14. Bevel
15. Birch Wood
16. Bird’s Eye Grain
17. Bridge Cabinet
18. Build-Up
19. Bumper Pad
20. Burl
21. Burnishing
22. Butcher Block
23. Butt Door
24. Butt Hinge
25. Butt Joint
1. Cabinet Clamp
2. Cabinet Rasp
3. Cabinet Scraper
4. Caesarstone Countertop
5. Cam Lock
6. Cambria Countertop
7. Carpenter’s Glue
8. Casing
9. Cathedral Door
10. Cedar Wood
11. Center Stile
12. Ceramic Tile
13. Cherry Wood
14. Chestnut Wood
15. Chop Saw
16. Circular Saw
17. Classic Crown Molding
18. Color Variation
19. Column
20. Common Kitchen Cabinet Terminology
21. Composite Wood
22. Concealed Hinge
23. Concrete Countertop
24. Contemporary Style
25. Cook-top
26. Cope and Stick
27. Corbel
28. Corner Cabinet
29. Corner Sink Base
30. Corridor Kitchen
31. Country Style
32. Cross Grain
33. Custom Cabinet
34. Cutting Board
1. Dado
2. Decorative Door
3. Dentil Molding
4. Diagonal Corner Cabinet
5. Dishwasher Panel
6. Distressed Finish
7. Door Stopper
8. Dovetail
9. Dowel
10. Drain Board
11. Drawer Base Cabinet
12. Drawer Face
13. Drawer Runner
14. Drop-In Sink
15. Dry Brushing
1. Edge Grain
2. End Panel
3. End Shelf
4. Engineered Stone
5. Engineered Wood
6. Epoxy Coated Guide
7. European Hinge
8. European Style Cabinet
9. Exposed Hinge
1. Face Frame
2. Fake Drawer Front
3. Fiddleback
4. Filler Strip
5. Fine Grain
6. Finish
7. Fixed Shelf
8. Flakeboard
9. Flat Grain
10. Fluted Filler
11. Formica
12. Framed Cabinet
13. Frameless Cabinet
14. French Leg
15. Fretsaw
16. Fridge Panel
17. Full Lap
18. Full Overlay
19. Full-Access Drawer
20. Full-Extension Guide
21. Full-Inset
22. Furniture Board
1. G-Shaped Kitchen
2. Glass Rack
3. Glazing
4. Gloss Finish
5. Grain
6. Grain Variation
7. Granite
8. Grid
9. Grinder
10. Grout
1. Half Overlay
2. Handle
3. Hardwood
4. Heartwood
5. Hickory
6. Highlighting
7. Hinge
8. Hinge Cup
1. Inset Doors/Drawers
2. Integral Sink
3. Island
4. Island Skin
1. Jigsaw
2. Joint
1. Kerf
2. Knife Hinge
3. Knob
4. Knockout
5. Knot
6. Knotty Alder Wood
7. Knotty Pine
8. Kwik-Korner Jig
1. L-Shaped Kitchen
2. Lacquer
3. Laminate
4. Lap Joint
5. Lazy Susan
6. Light Rail Molding
7. Lipped
1. Maple
2. Marble Countertop
3. Matte
4. Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF)
5. Melamine
6. Microwave Cabinet
7. Mill
8. Millwork
9. Mineral Streak
10. Mitre
11. Modular Cabinet
12. Molding
13. Mortise and Tenon
14. Mounting Plate
15. Mullion
16. Muntin
1. Natural Finish
2. No-Mortise
3. Non-Porous
1. Oak Wood
2. Ogee Edge
3. Old World Style
4. One-Wall Kitchen
5. Onlay
6. Open Grain
7. Outside Corner Molding
8. Oven Cabinet
9. Overlay
1. Pantry
2. Partial Overlay
3. Particle Board
4. Peninsula
5. Pie Cut Shelf
6. Pilaster
7. Pin Hinge
8. Pine Wood
9. Pivot Hinge
10. Plate Rack
11. Plywood
12. Poplar Wood
13. Pressboard and Pressed Wood
14. Primer Coat
15. Pull
16. Pull-Out Shelf
17. Putty
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1. Rail
2. Raised Panel
3. Range
4. Recessed Panel Door
5. Red Birch Wood
6. Red Oak Wood
7. Refacing
8. Refinishing
9. Reveal
10. Reverse Bevel
11. Roll-out Tray
12. Roman Arch
13. Rosette
14. Rustic
1. Sapwood
2. Sash
3. Scribe Molding
4. Sealer
5. Self-Close Mechanism
6. Semi-Custom Cabinet
7. Shaker Style Cabinets
8. Shim
9. Sidemount Glides
10. Single Oven Cabinet
11. Sink Base Cabinet
12. Sink Tilt-out Tray
13. Skin
14. SKU
15. Slab Door
16. Soapstone Countertop
17. Soffit
18. Softwood
19. Solid Surface Countertop
20. Solid Wood
21. Soss Hinge
22. Spice Drawer Insert
23. Spice Rack
24. Square-Cut Joint
25. Stain
26. Stainless Steel Countertop
27. Stem Rack
28. Stile
29. Stock Cabinet
30. Straight Grain
31. Surface Mounted Hinge
1. Template
2. the ADA
3. the Traditional Style
4. the Transitional Style
5. the Work Triangle
6. the Worm Hole Effect
7. Thermofoil Cabinet
8. Toe Kick
9. Tongue and Groove
10. Trash Pull-Out Cabinet
11. Trim Molding
12. Trim Tile
1. U-shaped Kitchen
2. Undercoat
3. Undermount Drawer Glides
4. Urethane
1. V-Groove Panel
2. Varnish
3. Veneer
4. Vessel Sink
5. Vinyl Laminate
1. Wainscot Panel
2. Wall Angle Cabinet
3. Wall Cabinet
4. Wall Diagonal Corner Cabinet
5. Wall End Cabinet
6. Wall End Shelf
7. Wall Skin
8. Walnut Wood
9. Warping
10. Wax
11. Welded Wire Mesh
12. Wet Polishing
13. Wine Rack
14. Wood Filler
15. Wood Grain
16. Wood Laminate
17. Wood Species
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Common Kitchen Cabinet Terminology

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