5 photos:

Sometimes accommodating period home structure can be brought about in subtle ways. We have here a 40" wide base cabinet, 33" high, looking rather dapper in Salem Red Milk Paint and Chesapeake doors.

The sharp-eyed among you might glance at this image and say "Aha, we see extended stiles on the cabinet face frame both left and right." While you would be absolutely correct (extended stiles allow custom scribing, or trimming on jobsite for a precise vertical fit in a not-so-precise period home), there is one element more.

But first, being sequentially minded as we are, let us show image number two, with the doors thrown wide open, displaying the painted interior and painted beadboard back.

Our third image gives us a good look at the back of a door, showing the clean detail of the backside of a muntined door.

The answer we seek lies in image number four. We view the cabinet from above and behind, our focus on the face frame. Notice the top rail of the face frame: rather than being flush with the top per usual, it, too, is extended. This will allow trimming horizontally across this and another cabinet accurately. (Not to go into too much detail, but there is also a farmer's sink involved.)

Our fifth image brings us yet closer to a corner, showing even better the extended portions of the cabinet face frame.