Raised panel kitchen cabinets in New Jersey

Every raised panel door below is on display or in a sample deck in one of our three showrooms, so you can hold the square, mitered and applied-molding versions side by side, see the paint on an MDF center panel next to solid wood, and leave with a 3D design and a line-by-line price — free.

The four raised panel styles

• Square raised panel. A clean, flat-edged raised center panel in a square frame — the version that suits a formal or traditional house without reading dated, and the one in nearly every line we carry. In the same line and material it sits close to a painted shaker in price.
• Mitered raised panel. The frame corners are mitered rather than butt-jointed, which allows heavier, more ornate profiles — the look of high-end traditional kitchens, from the semi-custom and custom shops (Plain & Fancy Chatham, Adornus Blakeney).
• Applied molding. A separate molding applied inside the frame of a flat or raised door, for a layered, furniture-like face; a custom-shop detail.
• Cathedral or arched top. The arched upper rail of the 1980s and 1990s kitchen — still made (Kith Harmony, Great Northern Woodbridge, Crystal's Country French Arched), rarely requested; we show it so you can rule it out next to the square version.

The shaker vs slab vs raised panel guide compares the three door families with drawings; shaker and inset have their own pages.

Raised panel doors by line

Every raised panel door in our catalogue — square, mitered, arched and applied molding — grouped by line. Click a door for its profile, construction and finishes.

Painted or stained

A solid-wood five-piece door can show fine joint lines under paint as the wood moves with the seasons; makers reduce it with an MDF center panel under paint, which is why most painted raised panels in the catalogue are MDF-panel doors and most stained ones are solid cherry, maple, oak or hickory. A stain shows the profile best — the shadow lines of a raised panel were made for cherry and maple. Painted vs stained covers wear, touch-ups and how the two age.

Framed, inset or frameless

Raised panel reads most traditional as inset — the door fitted flush inside the face frame, as in Shiloh's inset constructions and the Plain & Fancy and Great Northern custom doors above. The everyday version is a framed overlay cabinet, which every line builds. Frameless lines rarely offer a raised panel: of the frameless doors we carry only Adornus Blakeney and Fabuwood's Hallmark bring a profiled door to a full-access box.