Dowel Mounting And Blind Corner Precision

This Grass Tiomos concealed hinge is built specifically for blind corner cabinet doors, delivering soft-close performance and dowel mounting on both face-frame and frameless boxes.

Key Features

• Blind corner geometry restricts the swing so the door clears the adjacent cabinet without collision.
• Integrated soft-close damps the door over the final closing arc for a quiet, controlled settle.
• Dowel mount cup presses into pre-bored dowel holes in the door for fast, screw-free door-side installation.
• 110 degree opening angle delivers practical access while keeping the door safely clear of the neighboring cabinet.
• Three-way adjustment provides up to 3mm of travel in height, depth, and side directions after the door is hung.
• Works on face-frame and frameless cabinets when paired with a matching Grass Tiomos base plate, sold separately.

Engineered for the Blind Corner Position

A blind corner cabinet sits where one run of cabinets meets another at a 90-degree turn, leaving one door tucked against the adjacent cabinet face. The challenge is swing clearance: a standard overlay hinge opens too wide and drives the door into the neighboring box. This hinge solves that directly. Its blind corner arm geometry restricts the opening to 110 degrees, the angle calculated to let the door clear the adjacent cabinet front without contact. That restriction is the design, not a compromise. The 35mm cup bores into the door back, and the arm connects to a Grass Tiomos base plate mounted to the cabinet, which is a separate purchase. Plates are Grass-specific and must match the Tiomos series.

Dowel Mount, Steel Build, Nickel Finish

The dowel mount sets this variant apart from the screw-on cup versions in the same family. Pre-bored dowel holes in the door receive the cup's press-in dowels directly, eliminating the cup screws and speeding the door-side step on CNC-prepped doors. The hinge body is steel in a Nickel finish. Maximum door thickness is 24mm, which covers standard doors and extends slightly into thicker stock. The three-way adjustment range handles the minor corrections every blind corner position tends to need after the door is hung, bringing height, depth, and side into alignment with a couple of turns.

Who Reaches for This Hinge

Cabinet shops running CNC equipment will find the dowel mount fits naturally into a bored-door workflow, with no cup screws to drive on the door side. Installers working a kitchen with an L-shaped or U-shaped layout need this hinge wherever a door tucks into the corner run. It suits both frameless European boxes and face-frame cabinets, so it covers the mixed-construction jobs that show up on remodel work. For doors in a standard straight run where full clearance is not a constraint, an overlay hinge in the same Tiomos family is the right call instead.

Common Questions

The Right Hinge for the Corner That Always Causes Problems

Specify this hinge wherever a blind corner door needs to clear the adjacent run cleanly, close quietly, and stay dialed in after the install is done.