Frequently Asked Questions

Fronts: We offer both slab and shaker style fronts.

Our solid wood shaker fronts have 2.25″ wide rails and stiles, and 3/8″ solid panels in the middle. Drawers 5″ or less are made using a solid wood slab, as the rails make an internal panel too small to match bigger shaker parts.

Panels: All cover panels, toe-kicks, and deco strips will also be made as a slab style, made of out of real wood veneer with coordinating edge banding. If you would like to purchase Shaker-style panels, you will need to provide us with the exact dimensions for all Shaker-style panels. Panels over 45” will have a center rail, and panels wider than 45” will have a center stile.

For Acrylic and Textured Melamine shaker materials, the rails and stiles are 3″ wide. Parts 9 7/8″ or less are made using as a slab style as the rails make an internal panel too small to match bigger shaker parts.

We offer grain matching for our Natural Wood Slab materials only in both vertical and horizontal configurations.

Horizontal Grain Matching
Available up to 40″ high, due to the maximum size of sheet goods. However, we are able to do parts over 40″ tall for an additional cost of $99 per part.

Doors & Drawers
We offer grain-matched doors and drawer faces on runs up to 95″ (the standard length of our veneer panels).

Trim & Filler Parts
It is industry standard for toe-kicks to be manufactured using horizontal grain regardless of the overall project’s grain direction (i.e. vertical or horizontal). Trim and filler parts are offered in sequence with doors and drawer faces wherever possible, but are not guaranteed.

Panels & Toe-Kicks
Panels and toe-kicks are not sequenced, but do come from the same batch as the doors, drawer faces, trim and filler. Cover panels will only be vertically grain matched. On any run of cabinetry longer than 95″, we do our absolute best to continue grain continuity for the additional length, but do not guarantee it. On especially large jobs, more than one batch of veneers may be used.

Our manufacturing process is set up to produce parts only for IKEA’s Sektion, PAX, and Godmorgon systems at this time.

If you are local to the Denver area, have an IKEA Akurum kitchen system, and you are considering replacement fronts, please send an email request to great-service@thecabinetface.com with some photos of your kitchen. Unfortunately, if you are not local we are unable to manufacture fronts for your Akurum kitchen.

Our doors are sized to sit 5/8″-3/4″ off the floor when the closet is installed to the floor, and cover the IKEA toe kick. For the 93.125″ tall PAX, our doors are 92.375″ tall and for the 79.25 PAX, our doors are 78.5″ tall.

Installing PAX against a wall – We advise leaving a +/- 1/2″ from the wall. If the cabinet sits any closer than that the door won’t swing past 90º so any interior drawers may be hindered during operation.

If you would like a different size for your PAX doors, you can use our online estimator to input dimensions for a custom part, and we’ll calculate the price for you.

We offer glass doors for IKEA cabinets, however, due to the delicate nature of glass, and because of the many opacity options available we do not include the actual pane of glass with our doors. It is safer and more practical to obtain the glass for the doors locally.

Solid Wood Shaker Glass Doors
Available with 1, 4 and 6 mullions (bars creating separation in the glass)

DIY Paint Grade Shaker Glass Doors
Available with 1, 4 and 6 mullions (bars creating separation in the glass). These doors will be constructed with a solid Maple Shaker frame, not paint grade MDF, as this particular door style is manufactured without a rigid center panel. This allows us to maintain consistent quality with the rest of a DIY Paint Grade Shaker order.

Arylic (High-gloss and Matte) and Melamine Glass Doors
Available to accommodate 1 pane of glass

Please note: all glass doors are manufactured in the shaker style – an assembled frame with the center section removed. If you’re instead interested in a flat panel with a cutout instead, please contact us. Some parts may be manufactured in a flat panel with a cutout for an additional charge (due to the complexity of creating a custom cutout and the necessity of using more material).

Our glass doors come with rubberized molding for easy install of your glass panes. We recommend ordering your glass after you’ve already received your door fronts, so that your local glass manufacturer can verify any measurements.

If you’d like to order the glass ahead of time, you can calculate the size you will need.

All of our shaker style doors have rails on the inner side, which take up 1.75″ on all sides. So for example, our 18″ x 40″ door would take a glass pane measuring 14.25″ x 36.25″.

• For Acrylic and Textured Melamine glass doors, subtract 4.75″ (this is 1/8″ over exact dim) from the outside dimensions to calculate the glass dimension
• For Wood glass doors, subtract 3.625″ (this is 1/8″ over exact dim) from the outside dimensions to calculate the glass dimension

This size is a quarter inch smaller than you’d think, because of two factors:

• Our doors come 1/8″ of an inch smaller than their stated measurements. We call a door 18″x40″ to make it easy, but just like IKEA doors, the true measurements are 17 7/8″ x 39 7/8″.
• You want to also include another 1/8″ of clearance for the glass, since sometimes glass panes can have up to a 1/8″ variation.

Please note that certain parts aren’t available in Shaker style (5″ drawers, toe kicks, deco strips, and panels are only manufactured in flat panel style). Additionally, shaker doors over 40″ tall will have a center rail to provide added stability and prevent warping.

Sizing: Like IKEA, we produce our doors and drawers 1/8″ shy of stated dimensions so they can open and close seamlessly.

If you order an 18″x40″ door from IKEA, it’ll arrive measuring 17 7/8″x39 7/8″. Because our doors are designed to fit in perfectly with IKEA cabinet boxes, we also produce fronts with these dimensions in mind. All our doors and drawer fronts are produced 1/8″ smaller than the whole-number measurement given. (We give the whole number measurement to make it easier, since that’s what IKEA does too.)

Why the gap? If you were trying to fit two doors next to each other that measured exactly 18″x40″, they wouldn’t be able to open. They need that tiny space to be able to swing open and shut smoothly without rubbing up against or catching on neighboring fronts.

All parts that are meant to be fixed in place, like panels and toe kicks, are produced to the stated whole-number measurement.

Thickness: We make all of our fronts with the same thickness, regardless of material – 3/4″. When comparing our custom IKEA doors, drawers and cover panels with IKEA’s you will need to look at IKEA’S measurements by collection (they all vary).

No. Our standard dimensions are not the same as IKEA®’s. We purposely oversize our panels to give you the ability to have a truly pro fit with your cabinet faces.

Homes and buildings settle, shift and move over time so it is important to account for those irregularities when putting together your project. If you take a close look, you’ll notice your walls are not perfectly straight. As such, our panels are delivered oversized to allow for a better fit on-site.

Our panels are meant to sit flush to the cabinet’s facing for a built-in look. There is a huge difference between seeing an installed panel that was manufactured to exact size and an oversized panel that was cut down on site, because you can scribe the oversized panel to fit exactly to an uneven wall.

Our base panels, end panels and tall panels are meant to go to the floor instead of the toe-kick return around the cabinet’s side. Please feel free to contact us with more questions about our panels and their sizes.

We edge band all our products to give them a finished, polished look. Textured melamine, Acrylics, and most wood slab use a nominal 1mm banding, while Eurocore Effect uses .5mm edge banding.

Slab Doors
Slab doors, drawer faces, panels and toekicks are 3/4” thick with 1 mm wood edge-banding.

High-Gloss & Matte Acrylic
We offer two types of edge-banding for high gloss acrylic cabinet faces: Solid color or a Glass Edge effect. Matte acrylic edge banding is only available in solid, not Glass Effect.

By providing a long-term, seam-free bond, laser edge-banding enhances the aesthetic appeal because there are no joints to collect dirt or discolor with age. The Cabinet Face Laser also increases resistance of the finished board to heat and moisture.

Textured Melamine
Perfectly matched laser edge-banding with no glue lines.

Yes, our Solid Wood Shaker and our DIY Shaker doors are constructed of five pieces of solid wood, assembled to create the timeless, framed look.

Our Natural Wood Slab and our DIY Stain Grade Slab components are made of real wood veneer on an MDF panel with matching edge banding.

Most parts are available in shaker or slab styles, but panels and larger doors (>60″) are only available in slab style. Our shaker wood doors, being solid wood, can warp, so we don’t produce them for PAX units or any custom parts over 60″ tall.

Our High-Gloss, Matte, and Metallic Acrylics are made up of five layers: ABS natural, ABS, Color Acrylic, Clear Acrylic, and a UV hardcoat, all applied to a premium quality eco-friendly MDF substrate.

Our Acrylic material has been developed to be the most scratch resistant available on the market. It’s UV stabilized for lifetime color depth and will keep its original luster, with no polishing required. Another benefit to Acrylic: it isn’t heat sensitive, and the lamination technique used prevents orange peel. Our Acrylic products are also stain and chemical-resistant.

You can be confident your acrylic fronts are not just durable – they’re manufactured using environmentally sustainable practices using eco-friendly materials. Our acrylics use a sustainable MDF core manufactured from post-industrial recycled wood residuals. ** Matte finish products now use a premium western pine core instead of MDF. **

The core uses 100% NAF (No Added Formaldehyde) resin, is CARB Phase 2 compliant, and has been awarded the Composite Panel Association (CPA) Eco-Certified Composite (ECC) grademark.

We take our commitment to using sustainable materials seriously. Our MDF cores have three LEED environmental credits (MR 4, MR 5, and EQ 4.4) and are compliant with the CPA 4-11 ECC Sustainability Standard, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Airborne Toxic Control Measure (ATCM) 93120 and the EPA TSCA Title VI rule.

Our textured melamine uses the finest-quality melamine paper, fused to a premium western pine industrial core – a dense, eco-friendly core made from wood residuals that would normally end up in a landfill. It’s extremely durable, less expensive than wood, and easy to clean.

The denser the core, the more durable the product – and the more material used. Since we wanted to offer an ultra-durable and dense core, it was really important to us that we source the material from an environmentally responsible source. We decided to use a sustainable particleboard core, manufactured from post-industrial recycled wood residuals. It’s CARB Phase 2 compliant, and uses 100% NAF (No Added Formaldehyde) resin, meeting the most stringent formaldehyde emission standards in the world.

Custom Parts:

While all of our parts are manufactured to fit IKEA cabinets, we understand that occasionally a custom part may be required for a built in cabinet, or some other piece that needs a part to fit in with the rest of your project.

Because it is a custom part, and we do not have access, you are responsible for correct measurements so please measure twice so that we only have to cut once.

Please note we cannot make any parts taller than 95″, or narrower than 4.5″. Our custom parts will come 3/4″ thick, like all our products. Other thicknesses may be able to be specially sourced; please contact us for details.

Custom Glass Doors:

We can manufacture glass doors in sizes IKEA does not offer. For example, if you’d like your 36×15 horizontal doors to be glass, we can produce a glass-ready door instead of a solid door for you.

All glass doors are manufactured in the shaker style – an assembled frame with the center section removed. If you’re interested in a flat panel with a cutout, please contact us. Some parts may be manufactured in a flat panel with a cutout for an additional charge (due to the complexity of creating a custom cutout and the necessity of using more material).

Please note we are unable to warranty custom glass doors. The weight of glass places a lot of stress on the door, and we cannot guarantee a door size we haven’t evaluated.

Yes, you can choose custom veneers or laminates for your IKEA doors. However there are a few things to take note before doing so:

• When you select a product we will need the manufacturer, style and or color codes so that we can source the product.
• We also require a product that has matching edge banding available.
• We will also need to make sure the material you select can be pressed onto our eco-friendly MDF core.
• Custom veneer and laminated doors are available in slab styles only.
• When you order a custom veneer or laminate the material is purchased in full sheets from our vendors. For example, if your project requires 5.25 sheets we will order 6 sheets. For non-custom projects we normally charge only for the material used (i.e. 5.25 sheets in our example), but in a custom laminate order where we are not able to use the unused material (i.e. 0.75 sheets) so you will be charged for the cost of all 6 sheets.
• We do not offer miter fold parts for custom materials

We offer custom panels for those appliance built to accept a custom panel. Please note that some appliances require the purchase of an additional kit in order to accept a custom panel.

Please provide us with the make, model and specifications for your appliance usually found on the manufacturer’s website.