I emailed the cabinet company and said we had finally decided to go with beaded inset, slab front drawers. They responded by asking if I wanted slab doors also. WHAT? There's slab doors also? I swear I have looked at Gardenweb pictures for the last six months and even the kitchens with slab front drawer fronts have five piece doors.

I'm sure I'm wrong, but could someone please save me some time and help me find a beaded inset all slab kitchen?

Thanks,
Maggie

After literally years of looking at cabinets that didn't wow me, I saw a pic of a dresser with slab drawers. My jaw dropped, my eyes rolled back in my head, I started to shake and I screamed, "THAT'S IT!!!!!"

So... slab and beaded inset it is.

Iin other rooms I keep finding myself going Shaker. Again, a nice flat panel. I'm fighting that, because of a 17' bank of cabs in my MBR, but I'm just love them, too.

But I keep returning to the smoothness of the slabs. Saves a bunch of money, too. :)

maggie530,
It doesn't matter if you can find a picture of slab doors. You can have them if that's what you want. They aren't normally done because of the problem with warping and swelling, particularly with large doors. You see them more on contemporary cabinets that are full overlay, because the swelling problem isn't as much of an issue then.

Now I'm confused And curious...
What makes the door in the picture I posted above not a slab. And what would you call that kind of door?
For future reference I'd love to know because I really like that clean, spare style.

(I thought a slab inset door was a door constructed of one piece, not a raised panel or recessed panel door. But I'm not a professional kitchen designer!)

Travis Alfrey
Pinehurst, NC