Choosing the Right Kitchen Door styles?

Modern palettes of melamine colours are extremely diverse offering subtle tone and contrasts which are becoming highly sought after. Colour schemes mixing plains with textured timber finishes can create real impact. Available from matt and super-matt colours (providing fingerprint-proof finish), silky gloss finishes through to warm and textured timber grains; you should not walk past Melamine Doors as an option in your next project.

Often many of these advantages are overlooked and melamine doors are chosen based on their very attractive price points. This means can you apportion your budget into other areas of your project for strong impact: perhaps 20mm stone or upsizing your hardware options?

Now, homeowners can benefit from on-trend designs and achieve their dream project at a fraction of the cost.

The main limitation when considering melamine doors is they are only available in flat panel. While this won’t affect many styles it is worth noting they are not available in shaker style or the like and this will limit some designs.

Thermolaminated Doors

Is your next project going to be a little more up-market?

If you after a stylish fully-profiled Kitchen Door with an excellent resistance to impact than thermo-laminated doors maybe for you. Also known as Vinyl-wrap; the process starts with 18mm moisture resistant low formaldehyde MDF that is profiled to one of large number of profiles (think shaker style and many more). Once profiled, they are machine heat-wrapped in a quality coloured vinyl. This results in a smooth elegant finish.

Thermolaminates are smart for longevity and maintenance of the doors themselves. Because the vinyl layer is exceptionally robust as a material itself. It’s hard wearing, and it provides excellent resistant to impact and chipping. Thermolaminate also comes in wide range of colours, textures & patterns. You can choose from wood-grain, you can get metallic finishes, you can get high gloss or matt.

There are some limitations to be aware of if considering them in your next project. You can expect them to come at a higher price point, typically adding up to 30% or more on top of your kitchen budget.

Beware, there are many cheaper suppliers of thermolaminated doors in Australia, while these may have extended warranties, this does not save the home-owner from going through the replacement process (which can be time-consuming) if your vinyl start to de-laminate on edges.

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2-pack doors are a great touch to a high end kitchen look. If you’re looking for a smooth coloured finish on your kitchen doors, you’ll probably be debating whether to get 2-pack or thermo-laminated doors. When you start asking about the pros and cons of these two popular finishes, you might become more confused than you were before you started asking.

2-pack is a special paint finish used on kitchen doors. Because of its special properties, 2-pack must be applied by professionals in a dust-free, ventilated spray booth. It is usually applied to unpainted medium density fibreboard (MDF), but can be applied to timber or other materials as well. This means that a full range of profiled door patterns is also available, and many people feel that 2-pack profiled doors maintain a sharper profile (on edges) compared to other options.