Glass-Front Cabinet Run in a Pale Room
A glass-front run in a light, pale room, where the cabinet has to hold its own against daylight rather than disappear into a dark interior.
What the photographs show
A run of glass-front cabinets standing in a room with pale walls and a pale floor, framed in a warm metal, with the bottle rows lit and the glass reflecting the window opposite. The cabinet reads as joinery, not as a display case dropped into the room.
What the build had to solve
In a bright room the frame line does all the work, because there is no shadow to hide a heavy joint. The run is built in equal bays with an 18 mm sightline between them, glass is tempered where children or a doorway are near, and the lighting is set to a level that still reads when daylight is on the glass.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: equal bays. Worth avoiding: mixing door widths on a pale wall — the eye catches the difference immediately, even at a glance.
- Frame
- Warm metal stainless, 18 mm sightline
- Glass
- Tempered, clear, panes up to 2,400 mm
- Bays
- Equal widths, drawn before cutting
- Lighting
- Warm LED, dimmable against daylight
- Reveal
- Door reveal set to 3 mm
- Production
- 30 to 40 days, quoted per project
Frame 18 mm · glass panes up to 2,400 mm · scribe 40 mm · door reveal 3 mm · lead time 30 to 40 days, quoted per project · crated to a numbered setting-out drawing
The same scene, frame by frame
Photographs from our project archive, grouped by room type rather than by client. No client and no address is named on these pages.
What clients ask about a room like this one
Does daylight damage wine?
Ultraviolet does, and time under direct sun does more than most people expect. Low-E laminated glass is the answer where a cabinet faces a window; on an internal wall, tempered clear glass is enough.
Why equal bays?
Because a pale wall shows every difference in width. Bays are set out on the drawing so the last one is not a filler, and the glass is cut to the same module.
A room like this one, to your dimensions
Send three photographs of the wall and the bottle count. What comes back is a scheme, a drawing and a fixed price.