Nickel Concealed Hinge For Half Overlay Doors Without a Closing Mechanism

This Salice Series 200 concealed hinge hangs half overlay doors on face-frame or frameless cabinets with a free-swinging action, on dowel-mount installation, finished in nickel.

Key Features

• Free-swinging action lets the door stay open at any angle, with no spring or damper to fight against.
• Half overlay geometry positions the door at a partial overlap over the cabinet side, the standard fit where two doors share a center partition.
• 110 degree opening gives everyday access to the full cabinet interior.
• Dowel-mount cup presses into pre-bored 8mm dowel holes in the door for a fast, screw-free door-side install.
• Height and side adjustment dials in an even reveal after the doors are hung.
• Nickel finish on plated steel coordinates with brushed and satin metal hardware across the project.

Where Half Overlay Free-Swinging Fits

Half overlay is the geometry for partial-overlap doors, most commonly the pair of doors that meet on a single center partition, each covering roughly half the panel. The half-crank arm places the door at that position relative to the cabinet side, and the 35mm cup bores into the door back to seat the hinge. The arm connects to a Salice base plate mounted on the cabinet, which is sold separately. Use Salice plates with this hinge; plates are brand-specific and a plate from another line will not connect correctly.

Free-swinging is the right call when no automatic closing is wanted or when a push-to-open system handles the close. The door holds its position when released, so a catch or magnet is needed to keep it shut. If the install calls for a spring pull-close or a damped quiet close, those are different mechanisms available in other Series 200 variants.

Steel Build and Nickel Finish

The hinge is plated steel, which gives it the stiffness to hold a half overlay door square over years of daily use. The nickel finish reads as a cool, brushed tone that pairs naturally with satin nickel pulls, knobs, and other visible hardware without demanding an exact match. Height adjustment runs plus or minus 2mm and side adjustment reaches plus 4.5mm or minus 1.5mm, enough to bring a run of doors to a consistent reveal after the plates are set.

Who Reaches for This Hinge

Cabinet shops running production work on face-frame or frameless boxes, contractors rehanging doors to match an existing partial-overlay layout, and remodelers replacing worn hardware in a kitchen where push-to-open or catch-based closing is already in place. The dowel-mount cup suits CNC-bored doors where drilling is already done and cup screws are not part of the workflow. For standard doors in the 16 to 22mm thickness range, this hinge covers the job. Doors outside that range need a different hinge sized to the thickness.

Common Questions

Consistent Reveals, No Closing Friction

Specify this hinge when the design calls for half overlay doors that hold their position freely, finished in nickel to sit alongside the rest of the project's hardware.