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What Are the Parts of a Cabinet Called?

Kitchen cabinets from the front, then one base cabinet with its door off.

What Are the Parts of a Cabinet Called?

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Write the name of each numbered part.Answer key

  1. Door
  2. Drawer front
  3. Pull
  4. Countertop
  5. Toe kick
  6. Crown molding
  7. Base cabinet
  8. Wall cabinet
  9. Face frame
  10. Stile
  11. Rail
  12. Shelf
  13. End panel
  14. Panel
  15. Hinge

Drawn for this site on 2026-09-30 from plain geometry. Licence: own work.

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The run of cabinets 8

  1. Door It closes a compartment of the cabinet. Most doors hang on two hinges.
  2. Drawer front The face of a drawer. It is often a separate board fixed to the front of the drawer box.
  3. Pull The handle on a door or a drawer front. A round one is a knob.
  4. Countertop It is the work surface. One countertop usually covers a whole run of base cabinets.
  5. Toe kick The base is set back at the front. That leaves room for your toes as you stand at the counter. The space is also called the kick space.
  6. Crown molding Trim along the top of a wall cabinet. It can cover the space left between the cabinet and the ceiling.
  7. Base cabinet A cabinet that stands on the floor and carries the countertop.
  8. Wall cabinet A cabinet hung on the wall above the countertop. It is sometimes called an upper cabinet.

One cabinet and its door 7

  1. Face frame A frame fixed to the cabinet box's front. It stiffens the box, hides its edges and gives the hinges something to fix to. A frameless cabinet has none.
  2. Stile A vertical piece of the face frame. The frame of a paneled door has stiles too.
  3. Rail A horizontal piece of the face frame. This frame has three: top, middle and bottom.
  4. Shelf A board inside the cabinet. An adjustable shelf rests on small supports and can be moved up or down.
  5. End panel The side of a cabinet. At the end of a run, where it shows, it is a finished end panel.
  6. Panel The board in the middle of a frame-and-panel door. A frame of stiles and rails holds it.
  7. Hinge The door turns on it. On a framed cabinet the hinge is fixed to the face frame.

How this list was compiled: Part names checked on 2026-09-30; a name is kept only when two independent sources use it. (1) Wikipedia, text only: Cabinetry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinetry; Kitchen cabinet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_cabinet; Face frame, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_frame (wall and base cabinets, upper cabinets, countertop, crown molding, toe kick board and kick space, face frame, stiles and rails, cabinet box, doors, drawer fronts, frame-and-panel doors, shelves, hinges). (2) Ken Calhoun, Modern Cabinetmaking: Frameless and Traditional Construction (1993), read through the Internet Archive's full-text search, https://archive.org/details/moderncabinetmak0000calh (face frame, stile, rail, toe kick and toe space, base cabinet, wall cabinet, adjustable shelf, drawer front, hinge, pull, countertop, end panel, crown moulding). (3) Robert Lang, The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker (2006), read the same way, https://archive.org/details/boblangscomplete0000lang (face frame, stile, rail, toe kick, box, shelf and shelf pins, drawer front, door pull, drawer pull, hinge, countertop, base cabinet, wall cabinet, finished end panel, panel). (4) Bill Hylton, Illustrated Cabinetmaking (2008), read the same way, https://archive.org/details/illustratedcabin0000hylt (face frame rail, stile, crown molding, end panel). The three books are in copyright and were read as search snippets, not whole pages. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-09-30 from plain geometry; no maker's product is copied and nothing is traced. Licence: own work

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These are the parts of a kitchen cabinet, named on a run of wall and base cabinets and then on one cabinet with its door taken off.

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The run of cabinets

Base cabinets stand on the floor under the countertop; wall cabinets hang above it. Doors swing and drawer fronts pull out, each by its pull. The dark band set back at the floor is the toe kick, and the trim along the very top is the crown molding.

One cabinet, door off

The flat frame on the front of the box is the face frame: its uprights are stiles and its cross pieces are rails. A shelf shows through the opening, and the side of the box is the end panel. The parts of a cabinet door stand beside it: a panel in a frame, and two hinges.

  • Stiles stand up and rails run across, on a face frame and on a door alike.
  • Wall cabinets are also called upper cabinets.

Questions and answers

What are the parts of a cabinet called?

The box is fronted by a face frame of stiles and rails. Doors and drawer fronts close it, each with a pull. Inside are shelves. The sides are end panels, and a base cabinet stands on a recessed toe kick.

What is the frame on the front of a cabinet called?

The face frame. It is fixed to the front of the cabinet box, hides the edges of the box and gives the door hinges something to fix to. Frameless cabinets do without one.

What is the bottom of a kitchen cabinet called?

The toe kick. The base of the cabinet is set back at the front to leave room for your toes while you stand at the counter; the space is also called the kick space.

What is the trim on top of kitchen cabinets called?

Crown molding. It runs along the top of the wall cabinets and can cover the space left between the cabinets and the ceiling.

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