DIYing your own cabinet doors can be a fun and money-saving way to refresh your space. Remember to follow the correct process for a professional finish.

Exploring cabinet designs can be exciting and overwhelming, but choosing between inset and overlay cabinets could be one of ...

Exploring cabinet designs can be exciting and overwhelming, but choosing between inset and overlay cabinets could be one of your most important decisions yet.

The door overlay covers up any minute changes in the cabinets’ squaring. By contrast, inset doors show changes in cabinet shape, and opening and closing can even be hampered as a result.

“Inset-style cabinetry, in which the drawer or door sits flush with the face frame, is the way that cabinets were built at the time my home was built—in 1915,” Ashley Goldman of the Gold ...

Inset doors are flush with the front of the cabinet and rest fully inside the opening. Partial overlay doors sit in front of the cabinet face and cover up part of the face frame.

Decide Between Full Overlay and Inset Doors One of the defining features of kitchen cabinets is whether they use full-overlay doors and drawer fronts, or inset ones.