Dowel-Mount Thick Door Hinge for Wide-Swing Half Overlay Doors

This Salice Series 200 Silentia hinge is built for thick cabinet doors at a half overlay position, combining a 155 degree opening arc with integrated soft-close on both face-frame and frameless cabinets. The dowel mount presses directly into pre-bored door holes for a clean, screw-free cup installation.

Key Features

• Silentia soft-close damps the door through the final closing degrees so it settles quietly without slamming.
• 155 degree opening swings the door nearly flat for the widest practical access available with soft-close at this thickness.
• Thick door geometry provides the cup depth and arm clearance that standard hinges cannot deliver on heavier, oversized doors.
• Half crank arm positions the door at a half overlay, the geometry used where two doors share a center partition or a partial-overlay look is specified.
• Dowel mount presses the cup into pre-bored dowel holes without cup screws, speeding production installs on CNC-prepped doors.
• Works on face-frame and frameless cabinets when paired with a matching Salice base plate, sold separately.

Where Thick Doors and Wide Opening Meet

Standard concealed hinges are engineered for doors in the 16 to 22mm range. When a door runs thicker than that, the cup geometry and arm clearance of a standard hinge cannot seat correctly or swing freely. This hinge addresses both: the 35mm cup seats at 13.5mm depth to clear the extra material, and the arm geometry is shaped to let a thick door travel the full 155 degrees without contacting the cabinet front.

At half overlay, this hinge suits pairs of doors meeting on a shared center partition, or any run where a partial-overlay reveal is the design intent. The 45mm boring pattern aligns with standard Salice tooling, so it drops into existing CNC programs without a tooling change. The hinge clips to a Salice base plate mounted to the cabinet side or face frame — that plate is a separate purchase and must be a Salice plate matched to your cabinet construction.

Steel Build With a Quiet Finish

The hinge is steel in a nickel finish, suited to cabinetry interiors where hardware is visible at the door edge. The Silentia soft-close mechanism is integrated into the hinge body rather than added as a separate adapter, so the damping is consistent across every door in the run. Side adjustment of plus 4.5mm and minus 1.5mm, and height adjustment of plus or minus 2mm, give enough range to line up doors evenly after the cabinet is set.

Who Reaches for This Hinge

Cabinet shops building thick-door frameless or face-frame work, and contractors specifying a wide-swing soft-close on oversized panels, are the natural buyers here. The dowel mount is especially practical in CNC production environments where pre-bored doors come off the machine ready to receive the hinge without additional drilling. For a project that calls for thick doors but a full overlay position instead, a full-overlay variant of this series is the right direction. This hinge is for indoor cabinet installations.

Common Questions

Wide Swing, Quiet Close, Built for the Door

When the job calls for thick doors that open nearly flat and close without a sound, this hinge covers the geometry, the angle, and the mounting that standard hardware cannot.