Nickel Soft-Close Hinge Built for Half Overlay Doors

This Blum CLIP top hinge brings BLUMOTION soft-close to half overlay doors on both face-frame and frameless cabinets, with a dowel-mount cup designed for CNC production environments.

Key Features

• BLUMOTION soft-close damps the door over the final closing arc so it settles quietly without slamming.
• Half overlay, half crank arm positions two doors to share a single partition cleanly, each covering about half the cabinet side.
• 110 degree opening delivers the standard everyday swing for full cabinet access.
• Dowel-mount cup presses into pre-bored 8mm dowel holes, integrating into CNC boring routines without cup screws.
• Nickel finish on plated steel blends with the cabinet hardware palette common in residential and commercial kitchens.
• Three-way adjustment dials in height, side, and depth after installation to bring doors to an even reveal.

Where Half Overlay and Dowel Mounting Work Together

Half overlay is the configuration for two doors meeting on one center partition, where each door covers roughly half the cabinet side rather than the full face. The half crank arm spaces the door correctly so both doors open freely without the arms colliding. This is the geometry that makes a two-door cabinet look right, with a consistent reveal at the center partition and the outer edges.

The dowel cup is the production choice. Instead of screwing the cup to the door with wood screws, the cup carries pre-attached dowels that press directly into the door's bored dowel holes, the same holes the CNC lays out with the cup bore. That means faster loading on the cabinet floor and fewer loose screws in a high-volume run. The hinge arm then clips to a Blum base plate on the cabinet, which is ordered separately and matched to your cabinet construction and desired door position.

Nickel Finish and BLUMOTION Performance

The hinge body is plated steel in a nickel finish, a neutral tone that coordinates with Satin Nickel pulls, drawer slides, and other cabinet hardware without competing. BLUMOTION is Blum's integrated soft-close damper, slowing the door through the last few degrees so it closes with no impact. On a shared-partition door that sees twice the traffic of a single-door cabinet, that cushioned close protects both the door and the finish over the long term. The three-way adjustment holds the look: after the cabinets are set and loaded, a turn of the cam screws brings any settled door back to a straight, even reveal.

Who Reaches for This Hinge

Cabinet shops running CNC boring will find the dowel cup fits naturally into an existing production line, eliminating the cup-screw step during door loading. Contractors and installers specifying multi-door runs get a hinge that delivers a quiet, consistent close across every cabinet in the job. Designers working with two-door base cabinets or wall cabinets where doors share a center rail will recognize the half-overlay geometry as the right starting point. This hinge suits standard doors in the 16 to 22mm thickness range on either frameless or face-frame boxes, paired with a matching Blum plate.

Common Questions

Quiet Doors Across Every Shared Partition

Specify this hinge when two doors need to meet cleanly on a center partition, the close needs to be quiet, and the install runs through a CNC boring line.