Canyon Creek builds cabinets in Monroe, Washington, to the dimensions of your room. Three lines, one factory: Cornerstone (framed), Millennia (frameless) and Katana (frameless, a shorter menu). This page is the plain-English version of their product guides — enough to choose a line and a wood, then go pick the door.
Want the doors, not the reading? The Canyon Creek styles we show are all in the door browser.
Browse Canyon Creek doors → CornerstoneMillenniaKatanaThe door is what you see; the line decides how the box is built, how the doors sit on it, and which woods and finishes are on the menu. Pick the line first — the door browser can then show you only what that line offers.
A solid hardwood face frame on the front of every box, the way furniture is built. That frame is what makes inset doors possible: doors that sit flush inside the frame, with a small bead around the opening if you want it. Cornerstone also has the widest mix of door builds and overlays (how much of the frame each door covers). Its doors come in mortise-and-tenon, mitered, applied-moulding and slab builds, all in the same eight stain species. It's the line for traditional and transitional kitchens, and for anyone who wants an inset look.
No face frame. Doors and drawer fronts cover the box almost edge to edge, with gaps (reveals) of about an eighth of an inch, so the kitchen reads as clean planes. Millennia has the most door styles of the three lines. It offers all but six of Cornerstone's wood doors. It adds veneer slab doors in rift white oak, walnut and vertical-grain fir. It also has the textured, foil, acrylic and laminate slab doors common in modern kitchens. Every door needs a pull or knob, because the doors sit too close together to grip by the edge.
Same factory, same frameless build, with fewer choices: 16 door styles, 6 wood species, 13 stains, 13 paints, one edge profile per door, and glaze as the only finish add-on. If the Millennia option list feels like homework, Katana is the version with the decisions made for you.
We install Rev-A-Shelf pull-outs and organizers in all three Canyon Creek lines, and in Fabuwood cabinets too. Some come in versions made for framed or for frameless cabinets. Browse cabinet organizers
On a framed cabinet the doors overlay a wood face frame; Canyon Creek offers four ways to do that. Traditional overlay leaves an inch of frame showing around each door. Modified overlay tightens the sides to a quarter inch. Inset sets the door inside the frame, flush with its face. Beaded inset adds a small routed bead around every opening. On a frameless cabinet there is no frame to show — the door covers the box, and the only lines you see are the gaps between doors.
Practically: framed cabinets give you inset and a more furniture-like look; frameless cabinets give you slightly more interior space per cabinet and the cleanest modern face. Both are available with soft-close drawers and full-extension guides as standard.
Simplified drawings. Framed is shown with Canyon Creek's traditional overlay; Cornerstone also comes in modified overlay, inset and beaded inset.
Wood is a natural material. Color, grain and figure vary board to board and even inside one panel, so doors next to each other won't match perfectly. Every species also keeps changing color after it's installed. That's character, not a defect. Below is a short summary of each species from Canyon Creek's product guides. The door browser's Advanced filters can narrow the doors to any one of these.
Fairly hard, with a smooth surface and fine to medium grain. Expect mineral streaks, pin knots and gum spots. Color runs from off-white to reddish brown.
Cornerstone · Millennia · Katana · also Rustic · See doors →
Stiff, strong and heavy, with a tight, even grain. Expect burls, pin knots and mineral streaks. Starts nearly white to pinkish brown and darkens with light.
Cornerstone · Millennia · Katana · See doors →
Fairly light and soft, grown mostly in the Northwest, with little visible grain. Expect pin knots and mineral streaks. Color runs from very white to tan and pale pinkish brown.
Cornerstone · Millennia · Katana · also Rustic · See doors →
Strong and durable, with a closed, quiet grain. Expect small flecks and mineral streaks. Light tan to light brown.
Cornerstone · Millennia · also Rustic · See doors →
Very heavy, hard and dense, with bold, irregular grain. Color can swing from nearly white to dark brown, often in one board. Expect burls, mineral streaks and sound knots.
Cornerstone · Millennia · also Rustic · See doors →
Dense, heavy and hard, with open, prominent grain. Expect mineral streaks, ray flecks and small sound knots. Color runs from light tan to pinkish red-brown.
Cornerstone · Millennia · Katana · See doors →
An African hardwood with a fine, shimmering grain that often changes direction. Quarter-sawn (cut a certain way), it shows a ribbon stripe. Light to medium brown.
Cornerstone · Millennia · See doors →
Durable, with a rich, smooth grain from straight to wavy and a natural luster. Dark chocolate to lighter browns, with blond sapwood.
Cornerstone · Millennia · See doors →
Straight-line grain. Expect pin knots, small dry pitch pockets, vine marks and mineral streaks.
Millennia · See doors →
Straight grain with small, tight knots, and little of the “flake” pattern you see in red oak.
Millennia · Katana · See doors →
Stains are offered by species: each wood takes color differently, so the same stain looks different on maple than on alder. Cornerstone and Millennia offer paint three ways:
Katana offers the curated palette only. Sheen is satin or matte.
Finish enhancements are applied by hand on top of a stain or paint, so no two doors come out the same. Glaze is wiped on and back off; it settles into open-grain woods like red oak and hickory and barely shows on tight-grain maple, cherry or alder. Distressing and the Artisan packages add nicks, worn edges and other marks before color. Antiqued, Highlight, Patina and Sand-Thru each age the finish in a different way. Katana offers glaze only. We keep sample doors for these at the showroom, because photos on a screen flatten them.
Cornerstone is framed: a solid hardwood face frame on the front of the box, which allows inset and beaded-inset doors and gives a furniture-style look. Millennia is frameless: doors cover the box edge to edge with narrow reveals, for a cleaner modern face and a little more interior room. Most wood door styles are offered in both, so you usually choose the box first and the door second.
A flat-panel door whose frame is much narrower than a standard shaker's 2¼ inches — Canyon Creek's Armstrong, Benson, Davis, Ellington, Fitzgerald and Parker use a ½- to ¾-inch mitered frame over a wood-veneer panel. Same square-edge look, far less frame, so the wood grain does most of the talking.
Yes, every wood does. Maple's natural resins turn it warmer and more amber, faster under light stains or clear finishes. Cherry darkens and reddens noticeably with light. Alder, beech and hickory shift more gently. Sunlight speeds all of it up. Canyon Creek recommends judging color on the largest sample you can, which is exactly why we keep full doors in the showroom.
On Cornerstone and Millennia, yes — the Pick Your Paint program matches most Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams and Farrow & Ball colors, and a custom color match from a physical sample is available beyond that. Katana is limited to its curated palette.
The same species — alder, beech, hickory or maple — selected to show more of its natural character: mineral streaks, burled grain, color variation, sound knots up to about half an inch, and the occasional hairline crack. How much shows, and where, varies piece to piece and cannot be specified.
If you want inset doors or a traditional kitchen, start with Cornerstone. If you want a modern, flat kitchen or a slab door in oak, walnut or a textured surface, start with Millennia. It needs a pull or knob on every door; for a no-hardware look, ask about Cornerstone's finger-pull edge. If you'd rather choose from a short menu, start with Katana. Bring us photos of kitchens you like and we'll tell you which line they were built on.
Both cabinet makers are on our showroom floor, with working doors and drawers. Come by, or book a design consultation and we'll set a time.