This is a Blum CLIP Top BLUMOTION hinge, fitted inside your kitchen cabinets to hold the doors and control how they open and close. It's a straight arm version, made for profile doors or thicker doors, and finished in Onyx Black rather than the usual nickel or silver you see on most hinges.

Every hinged door in your kitchen needs one of these, usually two or three per door depending on its height. This particular version opens to 95 degrees, which is the standard angle for most cabinets, giving you enough clearance to reach inside without the door swinging back awkwardly or catching on neighbouring units.

The straight arm design is worth noting. It's built specifically for doors with a profile frame or extra thickness, so it sits correctly and closes flush. If your doors are a standard flat panel, a different arm shape would usually be specified instead. Your kitchen designer will already have matched the right hinge to your door style, but it's useful to understand why this detail matters.

BLUMOTION is the part that does the quiet work. It's an integrated soft-close mechanism, so instead of the door swinging shut and clicking against the cabinet, it eases itself closed over the last few centimetres. In daily use, that means no slammed doors, no jolted glassware in the cupboard above, and a calmer kitchen generally, especially with children around or during a busy evening of cooking.

The Onyx Black finish is a deliberate choice rather than a default. On kitchens with dark cabinetry, black ironmongery, or a handleless run where the hinge edge is visible when a door is open, black hinges sit far more comfortably than the standard silver finish, which can look slightly out of place against darker tones.

Fitting is by screw, the standard method used across most fitted kitchen cabinetry, giving a secure and adjustable fix once the doors