Blum CLIP Top Nickel Hinge for Half Overlay Doors

This Blum CLIP top hinge is built for half overlay doors on frameless and face-frame cabinets, with INSERTA toolless mounting and BLUMOTION integrated soft-close, in a nickel finish.

Key Features

• BLUMOTION soft-close damps the door over the final closing degrees so it settles quietly without slamming.
• Half overlay half crank arm positions the door to cover part of the cabinet side, the geometry suited to two doors sharing one partition.
• 110 degree opening delivers standard everyday access for wall and base cabinet doors.
• INSERTA toolless plate mounting presses the base plate into pre-drilled 5mm system holes without screws.
• Three-way adjustment dials height, side, and depth after the door is hung for an even reveal across a run.

Where the Half Crank Does Its Work

Half overlay is the geometry for doors that cover part of the cabinet side rather than the full face. It is the configuration two doors use when they share a single center partition, each overlapping about half the panel. A full overlay arm would push both doors past the edge and into each other; the half crank steps each door back to its correct position, leaving the narrow reveal the design calls for. This hinge handles that application on both frameless and face-frame cabinets, so one SKU serves either box construction. The 35mm cup bores into the door back in the standard way, and the arm connects to a Blum base plate on the cabinet, which is a separate purchase matched to your cabinet type and door position.

Nickel Finish on a Steel Build

The hinge body is steel with a nickel plating. Nickel is a practical finish choice in cabinetry because it reads as neutral hardware that coordinates with a wide range of pulls, knobs, and interior fittings without competing. The BLUMOTION damper works inside the hinge body and does not add visible bulk, so the finished look stays clean. Over daily use, the soft-close takes the impact out of closing, which protects both the door edge and the cabinet frame from the cumulative wear of repeated contact.

Shops, Contractors, and Remodelers Running Paired Doors

This hinge is a natural fit for cabinet shops producing runs of double-door base or wall cabinets, where consistent reveals across paired doors matter on every box. Contractors installing kitchen packages will recognize the CLIP top system and INSERTA mounting from other Blum SKUs, which keeps the install workflow consistent. For a remodeler matching an existing Blum installation, the half overlay nickel variant drops into the same plate and system already in place. INSERTA requires the cabinet to have 5mm pre-drilled system holes; if those are not present, the screw-on plate version of this hinge is the right substitute. For doors thicker than 22mm, move to a Blum thick-door hinge rather than this standard cup depth.

Common Questions

Paired Doors That Close Quietly and Sit Square

Specify this hinge when two doors share a partition and the job calls for a soft, damped close in a nickel finish that holds up through daily use.