Frame and panel construction also called rail and stile is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors wainscoting and other decorative features for cabinets furniture and homes.
Panel door meaning.
In the most basic sense the difference between a panel door and a flush door has to do with how each is constructed.
And with perhaps a lot more imagination you can visualize the 2 smaller panels at the bottom as the pages of an open bible.
The bottom part represents an open bible.
The flat panels of the door fit between its stiles and rails.
A door having panels framed by stiles and rails of greater thickness compare flush door.
The basic idea is to capture a floating panel within a sturdy frame as opposed to techniques used in making a slab solid wood cabinet door or drawer front the door is constructed of several solid wood pieces running in a vertical or horizontal direction with exposed endgrains.
Panel doors are and have been very popular for quite some time.
Definition of panel door.
A stile is a length of wood positioned vertically on a door.
Thus the cross bible or christian door.
In a panel door the construction consists of vertical lengths of wood called stiles and horizontal lengths of wood called rails.
The 6 panel door.
See the image above the left door.
Doors usually have between one and eight.
A style of door construction that features vertical wood stiles and horizontal rails that form one or more frames around thinner recessed inner panels.
Rails are lengths of wood that run horizontally across a door.
The design of a panel door features stiles and rails.
There is another form if this where it shows it is on the bottom.
A panel door constructed with panels usually shaped to a pattern installed between the stiles and rails that form the outside frame of the door.
If you look at it it does look like a cross.
Generally panel door comes in following types.
The top part represent a cross.
The cross the bible the top.
Each of these panels will fit together in order to create the finished door.
See the right door in the image above.
Alternatively a flush door has a flat smooth surface without the elaborate design work of a panel door.
A comparatively thin flat piece of wood or the like as a large piece of plywood.