A Fully Curved 5-Piece Door
For the uninitiated, a 5-piece door is the proper - traditional way of making a door for an item of furniture. The door consists of a top and bottom frame, known as the 'Rails'; two side frames, known as 'Stiles' and a 'Center Panel' - surrounded or 'fielded' by rails and stiles, allowing the center panel to expand and contract with changes in temperature and air moisture content. Many 5-piece curved doors that you see feature a curved center panel and curved rails- top and b
Aren't Curved Doors Expensive and Time Consuming to Produce?
If you try to produce curved doors in-house, they will take a minimum of 4 times that of a straight door to produce - and in most instances, a great deal longer! This can cause 'bottlenecks' in production as well as making them expensive to produce - given the production time required. As a furniture manufacturer, you are then faced with two options. The first option is to not offer your customers curves; this greatly limits your design capability. The second and obvious opti
