Choosing a Kitchen Door Style
If you’re planning on replacing the doors in your kitchen, there are various styles from which you can select. Each one will add interest and highlight its intended design intent in different spaces.
Your selection will depend on both the overall style you wish to create and the material used in building the cabinetry.
Melamine
Melamine kitchen doors offer a minimalist, modern aesthetic while being easy to maintain and environmentally-friendly – they are the ideal solution.
Melamine cabinet doors come in an assortment of colors and designs, making them a fashionable choice. Additionally, unlike wood veneer or solid wood doors, melamine doesn’t shift with temperature fluctuations and humidity fluctuations, making melamine doors the superior option.
High-Pressure Laminate
High-Pressure Laminate (HPL) is an increasingly popular choice in kitchens due to its durability, variety of colours and textures, affordable price point, resistance against scratches and stains as well as needing no finishing or varnish application.
Thermally Fused Laminate:
Thermally fused laminate is an economical alternative to high-pressure laminate, created by adhering decorative paper that mimics wood grains to rigid backing materials such as particle board or medium density fiberboard.
Full Overlay
Full Overlay Cabinet Doors are among the most widely utilized types of cabinet door styles today, providing a beautiful custom appearance that blends well with any design style.
Full overlay cabinets feature doors that completely cover the front of their cabinet frames, leaving minimal gaps between openings.
Full overlay cabinets provide an appealing, low-maintenance aesthetic while taking up less space than inset cabinets.
High Gloss Thermofoil
Thermofoil cabinet doors offer an economical alternative to painted kitchen cabinets. Made by adhering a thin film of PVC vinyl to an MDF door surface, thermofoil doors are becoming an increasingly popular option.
These cabinets come in an assortment of solid colours and faux wood grain finishes in glossy, matte, and textured styles for your convenience.
Quartz surfaces offer an economical choice for kitchens of any shape or size, being highly scratch- and dent-resistant.
Toughened Glass
Glass kitchen doors add style and function. Not only are they stylish, but they keep the area bright and clean.
Tempered or toughened glass is four times stronger than regular glass and considerably safer, shattering into harmless popcorn-shaped fragments rather than dangerous shards when broken.
Toughened glass cabinet doors make an excellent addition to any kitchen as they’re easy to keep clean and hygienic, as well as being customizable to your own kitchen’s decor.
Green MDF
Materials you select when selecting kitchen doors can have a dramatic impact on the style, finish and overall appearance of your cabinets.
MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard) is the go-to choice because of its versatility. MDF is an engineered wood product created by breaking down hardwood or softwood residues into fibers bound together by resin.
Solid Wood
Solid wood is an enduring material with long-term use and versatility in mind, available in an assortment of natural colors and species.
This classic option can add timeless style to any kitchen while being resistant to scratches and dents.
Solid wood can be expensive and time consuming to match color and grain; moreover it is more prone to damage. Plywood offers an alternative that’s less susceptible to damage as well as seasonal movement.
Smooth Painted
When painting kitchen doors, there are a few tips you can follow to achieve a smooth surface finish. One simple approach is sanding lightly prior to applying paint – but keep these in mind all along the way!
A smooth surface will help the paint adhere to, as well as eliminate any stray brush strokes on the door.
Once the initial coat has dried for 24-48 hours, you should then turn over your doors and begin applying a second layer.
