I have drawn up plans for building cabinets in my shop with kitchen style cabinets both lower and upper. I am going to use prefinished birch plywood. In the bottom cabinets, I plan to put in pull out shelves on full extension drawer slides. I am looking at the clearances and stuff along with the hinges and drawer slides and am having trouble with deciding about Face Frames.
I typcially have built cabinets with face frames and have not built any without them. If I go without the face frames, I will have to shim the drawer slides out to clear the door and the hinges. If I use face frames, I can attach the drawer slides to the face frame in front and the cabinet back. But then I have to build a bunch of face frames and install them. Also, the price of the hinges change depends on the type that is used and the amount of door opening you want. With twenty sets of door hinges, the cost per unit does add up.
Can someone with some experience with frameless cabinets give me some hints and thoughts about doing it that way.