Spent a whole day trying to get a simple cabinet door to hang straight

I was installing a set of frameless cabinets in a kitchen remodel over in the west end, and the last upper door just would not sit right. The gap was off by maybe an eighth of an inch at the top, but it looked terrible. I checked the hinges, shimmed the box, even took the door off and planed the edge a bit. Everyone says just to adjust the euro hinges and it'll be fine, but after three hours of fiddling I realized the cabinet box itself had a slight twist in it from the factory. Had to pull it off the wall, loosen everything, and re-shim the whole unit from scratch against a laser line. What should have been a 20 minute job turned into a 6 hour headache. Has anyone else found that sometimes the 'easy fix' advice just misses a bigger problem with the install itself?

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ryanhayes3d ago

Honestly feels like you might be overthinking it. An eighth of an inch seems like nothing, and most people would never even notice. I mean, cabinets are for storing stuff, not for being perfect art pieces. Maybe it's just me, but I'd probably have left it after the first hinge adjustment and called it good enough. Sometimes the quest for perfect just makes a simple job way harder than it needs to be.

alice8083d ago

Tbh that line about cabinets being for storage not art pieces really hits home. I read this thing once about how our brains are wired to spot tiny flaws even when they don't matter. Makes you chase perfect for no reason.