Nearly every room in your home has cabinets. Cabinets in the kitchen the bathroom, the play room and even the garage are overflowing with stuff. They only look neat because their contents are hidden by cabinet doors. There are three different types of cabinet door; flush, lipped and overlay. A flush door sits inside the frame with their faces flush with the frame, a lipped door has a lip cut all the way around it and an overlay door is cut larger so its edges lay over the frame. Each door type determines the type of cabinet door hinge you can use. A popular hinge for the overlay door is the pivot hinge. One hinge is attached on top and another on the bottom. Parts of each are bent over and mounted to the frame and door resulting in a concealed hinge. Another type of popular cabinet door hinge is a spring mounted hinge. A light spring within the hinge closes the door by itself, no help from you. One of the most common types of cabinet door hinge is a butt hinge. The butt hinge consists of two leaves full of screw hole and joined by a pin. If you pull the pin you can easily move or take the door down. One leaf if the hinge is recessed into the cabinet door the other into the frame so when it is closed all you see is the frame. Some cabinet door hinges can be ornamental ranging from colonial to modern styles or embellished with finials. The finish can also make a hinge ornamental. Match oil rubbed bronze butt hinges with oil rubbed latches or knobs for a nifty fifties look. Or try brushed steel hinges to match your modern bar pulls. No matter what style you choose you can complete the look with matching cabinet door hinges. Some say the beauty is in the details. Cabinet door hinges are some of the smallest of details in home décor and also some of the hardest workers. In fact they are eight to ten times stronger than their assigned task. Because of this strength it is almost impossible to buy hinges to small. It is also why some consider hinges the greatest invention after the wheel. After all we use hinges, especially cabinet door hinges every day. From reaching for your deodorant in the medicine cabinet to grabbing the coffee beans to grind out of a kitchen cabinet, hinges for cabinet doors are among the most important. Without them our belongings would be on open shelves for all our guests to see. I guess that would eliminate snooping, but that would also mean more straightening. Without cabinet hinges we might protect our belongings by rolling a rock or dragging a piece of wood in front of them. And then depending on the weight of the rock or wood it would take a feat of strength to get at our belongings when we wanted to. If you think about it modern life wouldn’t be modern without cabinet door hinges.