I'm building some false drawer fronts for my shop cabinets. I want to make them look like the flat panel doors I made for the upper cabinets.
Basic rails & styles, with a quarter inch plywood panel.
Here's the dilemma. For doors, the rails are always in between the stiles, to minimize the end grain showing. But for drawers, that just doesn't look right to me. That's probably because unlike a door, the rails are longer than the stiles on a drawer. So basically, the design I'm thinking about right now is a door rotated 90 degrees. You'll see the end grain of the rails when you look at it from the side, but when you open the drawer and look from above, you'll just see long grain.
My concern is that if I deviate from the standard design when it's all put together, it'll look "off", especially since two of the lower cabinets are drawer-over-doors.
Thoughts?
Basic rails & styles, with a quarter inch plywood panel.
Here's the dilemma. For doors, the rails are always in between the stiles, to minimize the end grain showing. But for drawers, that just doesn't look right to me. That's probably because unlike a door, the rails are longer than the stiles on a drawer. So basically, the design I'm thinking about right now is a door rotated 90 degrees. You'll see the end grain of the rails when you look at it from the side, but when you open the drawer and look from above, you'll just see long grain.
My concern is that if I deviate from the standard design when it's all put together, it'll look "off", especially since two of the lower cabinets are drawer-over-doors.
Thoughts?