Nickel Concealed Hinge for Full Overlay Doors in Tight Clearances

The Hettich Intermat is a self-close, full overlay concealed hinge in a nickel finish, designed for standard doors on both face-frame and frameless cabinets, with a dowel mount and a 95 degree opening angle built for wall-adjacent and space-constrained installs.

Key Features

• 95 degree opening angle is engineered for cabinets where a wider swing would strike a wall, appliance, or adjacent door.
• Full overlay straight arm covers nearly the entire cabinet side, leaving only a narrow reveal.
• Self-close spring draws the door shut over the last few degrees of travel.
• Dowel mount cup presses into pre-bored dowel holes in the door for a secure, screw-free door-side connection.
• Works on face-frame and frameless cabinets when paired with the matching Hettich base plate, sold separately.
• Wider door thickness range accommodates doors from 15mm to 25mm, covering standard and slightly thicker panels.

Where 95 Degrees Is the Right Call

A 95 degree opening is not a restriction — it is the correct geometry for cabinets placed against a wall, beside a refrigerator, or in a corner run where a door swinging to 110 degrees would collide with something adjacent. The reduced arc keeps the door clear and the install clean without compromising everyday access. The full overlay straight arm positions the door to cover the cabinet side, so from the outside the installation looks the same as any full overlay job — the difference is in the swing.

The dowel mount attaches the cup to the door through pre-bored 8mm dowel holes rather than screws, which is the preferred approach in CNC and production environments where the door comes off the machine pre-drilled and ready for a press-in fit. The arm then connects to a Hettich base plate on the cabinet, ordered separately. Hettich cross plates provide three-way height, side, and depth adjustment from a single plate and are the natural pairing here.

Steel Build in a Nickel Finish

The hinge body is steel finished in nickel, a neutral tone that blends with the face hardware on most cabinet lines without calling attention to itself. Nickel holds up to repeated contact at the arm and cup, and the finish coordinates naturally with brushed nickel pulls, knobs, and other interior hardware. The self-close spring is integrated into the hinge, so no separate closer or add-on is needed to get the door to pull itself shut.

The Right Fit for Production Work and Renovation Alike

Cabinet shops running face-frame lines or frameless production will recognize the dowel mount as a time-saver: doors pre-drilled on the CNC press directly onto the hinge without a cup-screw step. On a renovation, the 15 to 25mm door thickness range covers most solid-wood and panel doors without needing a thick-door hinge. This hinge suits full runs of wall cabinets near range hoods, end-of-row boxes, and any position where the door needs to stop short of a full swing. For doors in open runs without clearance constraints, the 110 degree version of the Intermat is the standard choice.

Common Questions

Controlled Access, Clean Install

Choose this hinge when full overlay doors need to self-close reliably in a space-constrained position, with a nickel finish that coordinates with the rest of the hardware and a dowel mount that keeps the install fast and screw-free on the door side.