Look at a cabinet, step around it and see it from various angles. The initial thing you’ll see when looking over cabinet parts is the entirety of the cabinet; its walls, the doors, the handles. Depending on the design, you might see the hinges, and then again you might not.

When it comes to design, the simplistic look of any cabinet can deceive the user in believing that the cabinet is simply made up of a door, walls and a bottom. But take it apart, look at it, check it out from the door inwards – and you’ll probably see that the cabinet is more complicated than the first impression that it gives.

Take the door, for example. Depending on the design, the door can vary, from the simple flat mount doors to the lazy susan doors. Even European designs have varying looks for cabinet doors. And one of the first things you’ll notice when you check out the cabinet door is the handle. Again, depending on the aesthetic design of the cabinet, the handles could vary – they could be knobs, or they could be pull handles. Some newly designed cabinets use holes instead of handles as grips, while other more simplistic cabinets use no handles at all. On the door itself is one of the key elements of a cabinet – the handle backplate which protects the door itself from damages that could be caused by the handle and objects from the outside.

Other cabinets use drawers, but on the whole, cabinets use swinging doors, and these swinging doors literally hang on hinges. There are many different kinds of hinges that mix and match with the design of every specific cabinet, but generally, the two kinds of hinges are self-closing and nonself-closing. The self-closing hinges are your average hinge that most people take for granted, whilst the nonself-closing hinge relies on catches to close up and stay close.