Nickel Self-Close Hinge for Full Overlay Doors on Face-Frame and Frameless Cabinets

The Blum CLIP top 71T3550 is a full overlay concealed hinge with a screw-on mount and a self-close spring, suited to both face-frame and frameless cabinets in a nickel finish.

Key Features

• Self-close spring draws the door shut automatically over the final degrees of travel.
• Full overlay straight arm positions the door to cover nearly the entire cabinet side, leaving a narrow reveal.
• 110 degree opening provides the standard swing for everyday cabinet access.
• Screw-on mount fastens the hinge directly to a base plate with screws, no system holes required.
• Three-way adjustment dials in height, side, and depth after the door is hung.
• Nickel finish on plated steel coordinates with brushed and satin hardware across the cabinet run.

Where This Hinge Belongs

Full overlay is the geometry for a door that covers the cabinet side panel or face-frame stile almost completely, leaving only a thin line between adjacent doors. This hinge delivers that position through a straight arm that bores into a 35mm cup in the door and clips to a separate base plate mounted on the cabinet. The base plate is a separate purchase, matched to your cabinet construction and door position. Because the mount here is screw-on rather than tool-free, the plate fastens to the cabinet with standard wood screws, which makes it the right call for any cabinet without pre-drilled 5mm system holes. It works equally well on frameless boxes and face-frame builds, so it carries across mixed-cabinet projects without switching hinge families.

Steel Build in a Nickel Finish

The hinge body is plated steel. The nickel finish reads as a warm, brushed tone that sits alongside satin nickel pulls and knobs without fighting the hardware palette. On a face-frame cabinet with visible hardware, the finish carries through on every door. On a frameless build where the hinge stays hidden, the nickel finish holds up inside the cabinet without corroding in normal indoor conditions. The self-close spring is integrated into the hinge, so no add-on damper or adapter is needed to get a door that closes on its own.

The Right Fit for This Job

Reach for this hinge when screw-on plate mounting is the practical choice: renovation work on existing cabinets without system holes, custom shops that prefer a screwed connection over a press-fit, or any project where the cabinet sides are solid and a drilled-in plate is the standard approach. The three-way adjustment gives enough range to square up doors after a cabinet is set, which matters on face-frame builds where stile tolerances vary run to run. This is a self-close hinge, meaning the spring pulls the door shut but does not slow it at contact. For a cushioned, quiet close, the CLIP top BLUMOTION version of this hinge is the one to specify instead.

Common Questions

Doors That Close and Stay Square

Specify this hinge when full overlay, screw-on reliability, and a nickel finish are what the job calls for, across face-frame or frameless cabinets.