Thread: Bookcase Doors - Design advice needed

I'm designing some built-in cabinets for my lounge room--essentially a long lower bank of drawers and cupboards spanning the length of one wall with bookcases sitting on top at either end (television in the middle). I've drawn up the lower section and intend to go with a full overlay door/drawer approach.

The lower section will be nothing fancy: ply boxes with some nice solid trim and doors/drawer faces. The upper bookcases will be more "showy"--solid wood and glass panel doors, with the carcass set back slightly from the front edge of the lower section.

But I'm stumped with regards to the upper bookcase design.

I want to raise the bookcase cabinets so the doors don't drag on the top of the lower cabinet section and was going to accomplish this with a sub-frame and a bit of molding. I'll also need to tie in the top of the bookcases with a bulkhead so was going to put some crown molding up there.

Do full overlay doors work, aesthetically, with moldings? Would inset doors for the bookcases jar with the full overlay doors below?

Note I'll probably have three doors to deal with for each bookcase, with all the door hanging difficulties that imposes. Inset doors with a knife hinge for the middle door sounds like an elegant solution to avoid having to put in a separate divider.

Open to any and all ideas.