Door profile
Raised panel cabinet doors
A shaped centre panel that stands proud of the frame. Traditional, and unapologetic about it.
What a raised panel door is
A raised panel door has a centre panel machined so its field sits forward of the surrounding bevel, catching light along the shoulder. Most of the doors here pair that with a moulded or mitered frame, where the four frame pieces meet at 45 degrees like a picture frame rather than butting square.
This is the profile that carries a formal kitchen — cherry, a warm stain, a glaze settled into the recesses. It is also the profile most sensitive to finish: the same door in a bright white paint reads quite differently from the same door in a saddle stain with a hand-applied glaze, because the shadow line is doing the work rather than the colour.
The honest part
What you are accepting
Every recess in a raised panel is somewhere grease and dust collect, and a mitered frame has four corner joints on the face where a butt-jointed frame has none. In a kitchen that gets cooked in hard, this is genuinely more work to keep looking new than a flat panel.
It is also the profile most likely to date. A heavily moulded raised panel in a mid-brown glaze is legible as a particular decade in a way a plain shaker is not. That is fine if it is what you want — it is worth knowing before it is on thirty cabinet fronts.
Door fronts
Raised panel doors we supply
From both manufacturers, so you can compare the same shape across a semi-custom line and a stocked one.
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Casselberry Antique White
Raised panelFull overlayPainted HDF
A cream raised panel with a hand-applied glaze that collects in the profile and leaves the flat faces pale. The most decorated door in the range, and the most traditional.
Request a Casselberry Antique White sample
Casselberry Saddle
Raised panelFull overlayStained solid birch frame and solid birch centre panel
The only door in the US Cabinet Depot range with a solid birch centre panel rather than a veneered one. A warm reddish brown with a dark glaze in the recesses — a formal, cherry-toned kitchen.
Request a Casselberry Saddle sample
Knoxville
Raised panelFull overlay
Heavy applied moulding surrounds the panel and repeats on the drawer front. Firmly traditional, oak, maple or cherry only, and no five-piece drawer option.
Available in Oak, Maple, Cherry
Request a Knoxville sample
Boston RP
Raised panelFull overlay5-piece drawer option
Boston’s coved frame with the centre panel raised instead of recessed. The shoulder catches light along its whole perimeter, which is what separates it from the flat version at a distance.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry
Request a Boston RP sample
Hamilton RP
Raised panelFull overlay5-piece drawer option
The raised-panel version of Hamilton. Wellborn use it heavily in their own glaze and brushed glaze photography, because the extra relief is where a hand-wiped finish shows.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry
Request a Hamilton RP sample
Knoxville RP
Raised panelFull overlay
The most ornate door in either range: applied moulding around a pillowed raised panel, repeated on the drawer front. If you want a formal kitchen this is the end of the scale.
Available in Oak, Maple, Cherry
Request a Knoxville RP sample
Santa Fe RP
Raised panelFull overlay5-piece drawer option
Santa Fe’s stepped frame with a raised centre. A middle position — more relief than a shaker, considerably less than Knoxville RP.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry
Request a Santa Fe RP sample
Beecher
Raised panelFull overlay
Hickory and rustic hickory only — there is no maple or oak version. A raised panel built to show off knots and colour swing rather than to hide them. No five-piece drawer front option.
Available in Hickory, Rustic Hickory
Request a Beecher sample
Madison
Raised panelFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A moulded frame around a raised panel, with matching moulding on the drawer front. The other rustic maple style, and the one Wellborn photograph most often in cherry.
Available in Oak, Maple, Cherry, Hickory, Rustic Maple
Request a Madison sample
Pima RP
Raised panel1/2" overlay
Pima with the centre panel raised. Half overlay and a shaped panel together is about as traditional as the line goes without moving to applied moulding.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF
Request a Pima RP sample
Judson
Raised panel1/2" overlay
The half-overlay hickory door, shown here in rustic hickory. Like Beecher it is hickory only, and like Beecher it has no five-piece drawer option.
Available in Hickory, Rustic Hickory
Request a Judson sampleDoor front photography is supplied by the manufacturers and is representative of the profile and the finish, not of a specific door. Wood species vary in grain and colour from piece to piece — the rustic species deliberately so — and printed and on-screen colour never matches a finished door exactly. Order a sample door before you commit to a kitchen.
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Other door profiles
Next step
Put one in your hand
A door front in your hand under your own kitchen lights tells you more than any screen will. We keep samples of both lines at the Granby showroom — bring a countertop chip and a photo of the room and we will put them together.