Nickel Blind Corner Hinge for Tight-Clearance Cabinet Doors

This Hettich Intermat blind corner hinge solves the geometry of doors that must swing clear of an adjacent cabinet or wall, on face-frame and frameless boxes alike, with a self-closing spring and a dowel mount that locks the hinge position at installation.

Key Features

• 95 degree opening angle is the correct geometry for blind corner applications, letting the door clear the adjacent cabinet without collision.
• Self-close spring draws the door shut over the last few degrees of travel.
• Dowel mount presses into pre-bored dowel holes for a fixed, screw-free cup installation.
• Overlay arm geometry positions the door to cover the cabinet side or stile edge.
• Wide door thickness range handles doors from 15mm to 28mm, covering both standard and thicker door stock.
• Nickel finish on steel for a clean, hardware-consistent look in production runs.

Built for the Blind Corner Problem

A blind corner is the cabinet position where a door, if it opened fully, would strike the adjacent cabinet face or wall before you could get your hand inside. The 95 degree opening on this hinge is not a restriction — it is the engineering answer to that constraint. The arm stops the swing at the point where the door clears without contact, which is the only angle that works in this position. Pair the hinge with a matching Hettich base plate, ordered separately, which mounts to the cabinet side or face-frame stile. Plates are Hettich-specific; a plate from another brand will not connect to this arm.

Dowel Mount, Steel Build, Nickel Finish

The dowel mounting method suits CNC-routed production work. Pre-bored dowel holes in the door accept the cup's dowels directly, no cup screws needed, which speeds the door-side step in volume installs. The 35mm cup seats in the bored hole, and the 45mm boring pattern registers the hinge position consistently across a run. The hinge is steel in a nickel finish, a neutral hardware tone that coordinates well in kitchens and built-ins where the finish carries through pulls, slides, and other visible hardware. Depth adjustment of plus 3mm and minus 2mm, and side adjustment of plus or minus 2mm, give enough range to true up a door after the cabinet is set.

Where This Hinge Belongs

Blind corner positions come up in base and upper runs where one cabinet meets a perpendicular wall or an adjacent run, and the door on the corner box needs a controlled swing. This hinge handles that position on both frameless cabinets and face-frame boxes, so one SKU covers mixed construction on the same job. The door thickness window runs from 15mm to 28mm, which takes in standard 16 to 18mm slab doors as well as thicker solid-wood frame-and-panel doors up to 28mm, without needing a separate thick-door hinge. Cabinet shops running production lines on the Intermat system will find this hinge steps into their existing Hettich plate inventory for the corner positions. Contractors retrofitting or replacing hardware in a blind corner can match the dowel bore and 45mm pattern to existing holes if the original installation used the same pattern.

Common Questions

The Right Hinge for the Corner Position

When a blind corner door needs a controlled swing, a clean nickel finish, and a dowel-mounted cup that locks in on the CNC, this Hettich Intermat is the direct answer.