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Door Panels
External doors and a variety of internal feature panel doors use solid timber panels which are raised, that is, the centre of the panels are the same thickness as the door, (or at times slightly less) and narrower at the edges where they fit into the grooves in the stile, rail and muntin.
A panel can be made of either a single piece, or a number of pieces of the same type of timber joined together. The panel is then machined in such a way that it gives the appearance of being raised. Though there are a number of designs for a panel, they all follow a basic pattern where the thickness of the panel is reduced around the edges and a thickness is maintained in the centre.
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Some panels are single sided panels, where only one side is raised, leaving the reverse side plain. Where the panel has a flat area in the centre, as shown here on the left, this area is known as the 'field'. The size of the field can vary depending on style of panel, which is determined by the width of the reduced area around the edges of the field.
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An alternative to the Raised and Fielded panel would be the Bevel Raised and Fielded Panel, where the four reduced areas, rather than being flat, are machined at an angle, forming a bevel up to the field. As you can see by this drawing, the step-up to the field is reduced compared to the drawing above, due to the angle of the bevel.
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| A  Raised, Fielded panel as shown here, has the edges reduced on both sides, providing a two sided panel or double sided panel with an identical feature on both faces.
An alternative design to the fielded range of panels is the Bevel Raised Panel. The Bevel Raised Panel has no field because the four edges are bevelled to where all points meet, producing an apex effect |
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in the centre of the panel.
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