Nickel Half Overlay Hinge With Soft-Close for Shared-Partition Doors

This Blum CLIP top hinge brings BLUMOTION soft-close and INSERTA tool-free mounting to half overlay doors on frameless and face-frame cabinets, finished in nickel.

Key Features

• BLUMOTION soft-close damps the door over its final closing arc so it settles quietly every time.
• Half overlay half-crank arm sets the door to a partial overlay, the geometry built for two doors sharing one center partition.
• 95 degree opening angle delivers controlled swing clearance suited to this overlay configuration.
• INSERTA tool-free plate mounting presses the base plate into 5mm pre-drilled system holes without screws.
• Three-way adjustment dials in height, side, and depth after the door is hung, bringing the reveal even across a full run.

Built for Doors That Share a Partition

Half overlay is the geometry for doors that each cover part of the cabinet side, most commonly where two doors meet on a single center partition or stile. The half-crank arm on this hinge positions the door precisely at that partial overlap, so adjacent doors sit flush with each other without the arms colliding behind the faces. The 35mm cup bores into the back of the door, and the arm clips to a Blum base plate on the cabinet side, which is sold separately. Both frameless cabinets and face-frame boxes are supported, so this hinge covers the two most common case constructions in one SKU.

Nickel Finish on Steel, With a Damped Close

The hinge body is steel in a nickel finish, a neutral tone that reads clean against painted boxes, light wood interiors, and stainless-accented kitchens. The BLUMOTION damper is integrated into the hinge, so no add-on soft-close clip is needed. The damper slows the door through the last few degrees of travel, which protects both the door face and the cabinet edge at the partition from the repeated impact of a spring-only close. At this overlay and opening angle, the damped close matters: the door and its neighbor come to rest right next to each other, and a hard contact there over years of daily use shows.

Where This Hinge Fits the Job

Specify this hinge on double-door cabinets, pantry-style pairs, and any run where two doors share a partition and need a soft, controlled settle. It suits cabinet shops running production on frameless 32mm-system boxes as well as face-frame work where a half-overlay reveal is the design spec. INSERTA mounting cuts plate installation time on 32mm-system cabinets because the plate presses into the pre-drilled 5mm system holes rather than requiring screw placement. If the cabinet does not have pre-drilled 5mm system holes, use the screw-on plate version of this hinge instead. For doors thicker than about 22mm, a thick-door hinge is the right call.

Common Questions

Quiet, Even Doors Across Every Shared Partition

Choose this hinge when the job calls for half overlay doors that close softly, sit level, and hold their reveal run after run.