Nickel CLIP top Hinge Built for Half Overlay Doors

This Blum CLIP top hinge brings self-close performance to half overlay doors on both face-frame and frameless cabinets, with a screw-on mount and a classic nickel finish that coordinates with the broader hardware run.

Key Features

• Half overlay half-crank arm positions two doors correctly on a shared center partition, keeping them from conflicting.
• Self-close spring draws the door shut over the last few degrees of travel.
• 110 degree opening delivers standard everyday swing for kitchen, bath, and casework doors.
• Screw-on mount fastens directly to the cabinet side or face-frame stile with wood screws, no system holes required.
• Three-way adjustment dials height, side, and depth after installation so doors line up evenly across a run.
• Nickel finish on steel gives a neutral, durable look that blends with pulls, knobs, and other nickel hardware.

Where the Half Overlay Geometry Does Its Job

Half overlay is the geometry for doors that share a partition. When two doors meet on one center stile or cabinet divider, a full overlay arm on each door would crowd the partition and cause the doors to collide or sit at the wrong gap. The half-crank arm on this hinge sets each door back so both can occupy the same partition cleanly, with an even reveal between them. The 35mm cup bores into the back of the door, and the arm connects to a base plate on the cabinet, which is sold separately. The screw-on mount means the plate fastens with wood screws rather than pressing into pre-drilled system holes, so this hinge works in any cabinet box regardless of whether it is line-bored.

Steel Construction and a Finish That Holds

The hinge body is steel with a nickel plating. Nickel sits in the middle of the finish spectrum, warm enough to complement brass and bronze pulls but neutral enough to work alongside chrome or stainless. On a cabinet run, every hinge arm is visible each time a door opens, so finish consistency matters. This hinge keeps the metal tone steady whether it is paired with face-frame stile screws or installed into a frameless box. The three-way adjustment handles the small shifts that happen as a cabinet settles, bringing doors back to a uniform reveal without opening up the walls.

Who Reaches for This Hinge

Cabinet shops running double-door base or wall cabinets on half-overlay specs will recognize this as the workhorse hinge for that layout. Remodelers swapping out older hardware in face-frame kitchens find the screw-on mount straightforward to match, since it does not depend on a specific hole pattern in the box. Designers specifying a full nickel hardware package can call this hinge out by finish and be confident it coordinates. For shops that prefer tool-free INSERTA mounting or want BLUMOTION soft-close, the same CLIP top family offers those variants. This SKU is the screw-on, self-close option in nickel.

Common Questions

Consistent Finish, Clean Reveals, Doors That Close on Their Own

Specify this hinge when the job calls for half overlay doors in nickel, a screw-on mount that works in any box, and a self-close spring that keeps every door shut without a damper premium.