Furniture design
Doors and opening directions
Choose hinged, double, sliding, drop-front, or lift-up doors and understand their fit rules.
On this page
Select a compartment, choose Door under Contents, then select the door itself to edit its type and details. In a guided category, the section’s Function or Front control can own the door type while the selected door still exposes its useful opening direction.
Door types
| Control | How it opens | Supported opening envelope |
|---|---|---|
| Opens from left | Pull from the left; hinges sit on the right | 20–100 cm wide, 15–240 cm high |
| Opens from right | Pull from the right; hinges sit on the left | 20–100 cm wide, 15–240 cm high |
| Double doors | Two side-hinged leaves meet in the middle | 40–240 cm total width, 15–240 cm high |
| Sliding | Leaves slide across the front | 80–360 cm total width, 40–270 cm high |
| Drop-front | Pull from the top; hinge sits along the bottom | 20–180 cm wide, 15–100 cm high |
| Lift-up | Pull from the bottom; hinge sits along the top | 20–180 cm wide, 15–100 cm high |
The live editor is authoritative and can impose a smaller limit for a guided category, connected layout, material, or hardware combination. A single side-hinged leaf is physically supported up to 100 cm, but Supernata prefers a double-door solution above about 60 cm when it chooses for you because the swing is easier to use and the leaf is less likely to warp.
Read left and right correctly
Opens from left names the side you pull, not the hinge. Its hinge is on the opposite edge. Use the automatic 3D opening preview to confirm the choice, especially for a cabinet beside a wall, another door, or a circulation path.
Why a type is unavailable
A grey option can mean the opening is too narrow, wide, short, tall, or shallow; that a drawer-only slot is selected; or that the requested door would conflict with an open side or another structural rule. Tap the option to see the live reason. Change the compartment size, choose another type, or return to the section function instead of forcing an incompatible front.
Doors across several spaces
A hinged door can contain adjustable shelves and Maximera drawers behind it. Use Split door into compartments when those zones need separate outside fronts. In the dedicated placement flow, a single door can merge several spaces only when they are contiguous vertically, have equal width, and belong to the same section and column. Multi-space placement supports door types, not drawers or drop/lift fronts. Double and sliding doors can span a larger section but still depend on the underlying section geometry; check that the requested opening belongs to the intended column.
Customize the selected door
The door detail includes:
- opening direction or full door type;
- shelves and ready-made layouts behind a hinged door;
- handle style and available finish;
- front and interior surface;
- color or custom finish;
- automatic ventilation grille where it fits;
- a specification lock toggle.
These appearance controls are explained in handles, surfaces, ventilation, and locks. Drawers and hidden drawers have their own rules in drawers and Maximera.
Still need help?
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