In the end I gave up one trying to get their parts to work and decided to just make all the cabinets for my house. At the same time it is a frustration they skipped common US sizes for things do to their door commonality plan, so no 6", 9", 27", 33", 39" cabinets, which for a lot of kitchens is a killer. I think they could have changed the landscape there a lot of they had pushed it instead of caving to the North American norms. Just imagine them bringing a ~1200 USD built in fridge to the market when right now the cheapest options are 5-6000 USD. They had the opportunity to bring built in fridges to the US. Like I mentioned above, it gets frustrating when you see the appliances and such you can get elsewhere in the world, where they largely standardize on widths, which makes kitchen layout work so much better, no 24" washer, 30" oven, 33" fridge, 36" cooktop non-sense. It probably also helps some traditional cabinet makers as it makes what they make more special and different from the frameless stuff. I think they have hurt things at time by bringing some really off looking and cheesy door options, which then get people thinking that is what frameless looks like. I agree that bringing frameless cabinets to the forefront in this country was big. Go back to ikea with metric tape and measure the stuff in store, maybe take your photo with you to show them something is not right. It looks much more like something has messed up at the factory and some bad parts are being made. If they did a running change like that the internet would blow up and 3rd parties like Semi-Handmade would go nuts. It's been out for 5 years and part of the whole concept is you can swap stuff around later, buy different parts and the like. Most the metric aspect of it people would never notice without actively thinking to look for it or putting a metric tape on it. They can't just do a running change on this as it would break the whole system, and all the parts. I have measured the Sektion many times, it's very much 32mm, and so is the blum hardware it runs. They just change widths, to be the 3" increments instead of being based around the European 600mm width baseline. Sektion is the North American name for the same kitchen system they use in Europe.
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