Selecting custom drawer fronts is as important as selecting the cabinet doors. The drawer fronts should conform to the style of doors on the same cabinets. It is common to have a five-piece raised panel drawer front with raised panel doors, and a five-piece flat panel drawer front with flat panel doors. I personally prefer slightly taller five-piece raised panel drawer fronts to give the raised panel more mass. It is also common to utilize solid drawer fronts for all applications.
Custom Cabinet Drawer Fronts
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It is also common for solid drawer fronts to be called “planks”. Five-piece drawer fronts can also be called “frame-and-panel” drawer fronts. Five-piece drawer fronts only come in the square style, and nobody that I know of offers any arched-style drawer front.
Does anybody know the best way to attach drawer fronts to the drawers?
The most common method for attaching drawer fronts to drawers is to drive screws from inside the drawer into the drawer front. I like to countersink the holes first, use glue, and properly size the screws (so as not to poke through the front of the drawer front).