c. 1880–1930

Arts & Crafts / Craftsman cabinet doors & fronts

Honest construction made visible: quarter-sawn oak, exposed joinery, built-in seating and storage, hand-wrought hardware and nature-derived ornament.

For a custom project, Arts & Crafts rewards restraint. Square proportions, flat or simply framed panels and a warm stained finish do most of the work, with ornament limited to a through-tenon, a corbel or a band of leaded glass.

Cabinet doors and drawer fronts carry most of a style's identity, from the Shaker flat panel to Victorian carved panels and mid-century slab fronts. New fronts can also transform existing cabinets.