Hi everyone,
Would like to pick your brain on this cabinet design. I'm building a set of kitchen cabinets and I am considering, for the base cabinets, having the look of the cabinets appear to be one door from afar, but be divided up with drawers.
With this, the top drawer would have stiles and a top rail without a bottom rail. Center drawer with only stiles, and bottom drawer, 2 stiles and bottom rail. When all the doors are closed, it'll look like one door that mirrors the upper cabinets.
I've never built cabinet doors this way and I'm thinking about drawbacks with gluing, shrinking and expansion, Etc. I am building these doors out of quarter-sawn white oak. The rails and stiles, 7/8 possibly with an inside bead, half inch solid inset panels. The grain of the panels will all be vertical to match the upper cabinet doors.
Has anyone ever done this before? Not sure how to approach the upper and lower sections because of the rails and protect it from shrinking and expansion through the seasons.
The middle section drawers that only have the stiles figured I would glue to the sides of the panel because the grain direction would all be matching.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Tommy
PS after typing all this I just realized that the 33 in wide base cabinet may look goofy this way. But I could divide it up into two doors.