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Furniture design

Colors, interior scopes, and custom finishes

Control cabinet, section, compartment, door, and drawer finishes without recoloring the wrong surface.

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Color controls are scoped to the selected part. Select the cabinet for its body finish, a section or compartment for an interior override, and a door or drawer for its front color.

Cabinet body color

The cabinet-level color is the fallback for carcass panels and any interior that does not have an override. Changing it does not have to recolor a door, drawer, or custom interior that already carries its own finish.

Section and compartment interiors

An interior override has three scopes:

  • Follow body / None uses the cabinet body finish.
  • Back only recolors the rear panel of that section or compartment.
  • All interior recolors the inner back, sides, top, and bottom while leaving the exposed front edging on the body finish.

A compartment override wins over its parent section. Remove the compartment override to return to the section setting; remove both to follow the cabinet body.

Door and drawer color

Select the front itself to choose its color. Color is separate from Surface: Flat, Shaker, Rattan, Slatted, Glass, or Mirror changes the front treatment, while the color/material control chooses the finish used by that treatment where compatible.

A Shaker frame follows this front color by default. Set a separate Shaker frame color for a two-tone result; clearing it makes the frame follow future front-color changes again.

Guided categories can provide one richer color surface that automatically targets the selected front. Free Design exposes the part-level controls directly.

Custom color or texture

Where available, create a custom material from a color or image texture, wait for the upload to finish, then apply it to the intended part. Use an evenly lit, front-facing texture with no perspective when you want a repeatable material appearance. Keep the original file until the design and upload are safely saved.

A missing or expired custom texture can fall back to its stored color. Sharing, exporting, or moving between devices can require the uploaded asset to remain available. Confirm the result in the receiving flow rather than assuming a local preview transferred.

RAKAI preservation

RAKAI can refuse a structural edit that would discard a custom material. This protects the existing appearance instead of silently replacing it. Duplicate the design or make the structural change manually if preserving the custom finish is important.

Color versus price

Finish area, doors, drawer fronts, glass, mirrors, edge treatment, and custom material choices can affect the material summary and eligible Indonesian pricing. Use the live estimate; this documentation does not freeze catalog prices.

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