WHICH DOOR MATERIAL IS RIGHT FOR YOUR NEW KITCHEN?

Clean-lined, minimalist look. Of course, the doors can also be without handles, ie without handles, in which case the door opens with a small push.

The right choice

In the range of kitchen furniture doors, there are plenty of options in terms of models, materials and colors. When choosing the material of the door, it is good to take into account how hard the door is. In families with children, there are often different requirements for furniture than in a two-adult home. The colors give the look and feel of space in a small space, for example, when a light shade is chosen for the door surface. The chosen door also defines the style of the kitchen and should match the rest of the home decor.

The door material and model are often chosen at an early stage of design. If you feel that your own taste is yet to be seen, you should ask a kitchen expert for help. When you start negotiations with a furniture supplier with the widest possible range of doors, you can make sure that you have the most comprehensive view of the options available on the market in one visit.

Health

The available budget also guides the choice of kitchen front material. The manufacture of wooden doors is handcrafted and thus, of course, affects the price. Laminate and melamine doors have the possibility to carry out kitchen renovations more cheaply. If you want strong colors for your kitchen, an MDF door is a good option.

In families with allergies, special attention is often paid to indoor air issues. Indoor air purity is defined at three different levels and E1 is the best of the ratings. E1 is a standard of safety recognized in Europe. This standard signals the maximum levels of formaldehyde that each piece of flooring can contain. E1 states that the product is clean, has no odor nuisance and does not cause irritation. So the E1 rating will help you make choices. When you want to make sure that the indoor air conditions are in order after the kitchen renovation, ask the furniture supplier which doors have received an E1 rating. Demsas's products have already been tested and each of them belongs to the E1 category.

Chipboard

Chipboard is the most commonly used material in the kitchen furniture industry and is the result of using leftovers from wood chips that are pressed in several layers with synthetic resin glue. The advantage: Hardly any waste products are left over and the natural resource wood is conserved. The wooden material is not as stable as a solid wooden panel, but scores with a low price and low weight .

MDF panels

MDF boards are also popular as a support material for kitchen furniture. The so-called medium-density fibreboards are extremely stable and resistant to bending .  Under steam pressure, wood fibers are heated, defibrated, ground, dried and pressed into single-layer boards of various thicknesses. MDF boards are easy to work with, but a lot more expensive than chipboard. 

HPL panels (High Pressure Laminate)

These are abrasion-resistant, moisture-resistant, food-safe, heat-resistant up to 180°C and anti-static laminated panels . The thickness of the plate is between 0.8 and 1.6 mm . The HPL panels can be manufactured in different colors and structures. Several cellulose webs are saturated with hardenable (duroplastic) synthetic resins and layered evenly. A printed or colored decorative layer ensures the desired design.

Plastic fronts

Plastic kitchen front are made of thermoplastic (elastic) and duroplastic (not deformable) coatings, laminates or layers are applied to the carrier material. Different colors, patterns or surface structures are possible.

A quality feature of plastic fronts is the so-called zero joint . This means that the edge has a uniform, seamless look. To do this, the edges of the kitchen front are either laser-welded to the carrier plate or fused using hot air or infrared technology and not just glued. Dirt cannot accumulate here as quickly and water cannot penetrate.

There are also differences in the plastic fronts:

• Foil/PET wrapped kitchen fronts
• melamine resin kitchen fronts
• laminate kitchen fronts
• Lacquer laminate kitchen fronts

Foil/PET wrapped kitchen fronts

The foil fronts covered with plastic foil are very popular with kitchen buyers for price reasons. However, this is not the only reason, because they offer the possibility of imitating real materials such as wood, lacquer or even stone.

Laminate kitchen fronts

Laminate fronts (also called laminate fronts) have a layer of phenolic resin, decorative paper and a transparent top layer.

Melamine resin kitchen fronts

Melamine resin fronts are plastic fronts with a melamine resin coating. To do this, decorative papers soaked in melamine resin are pressed onto the carrier board with high pressure.

Lacquer laminate kitchen fronts

When manufacturing lacquered laminate fronts, lacquer is applied to a layer of plastic, which is then pressed onto an MDF board.

Solid wood fronts

Solid wood is the most natural front material . The kitchen front is made entirely of solid wood. Often only frames made of solid wood are offered, while the filling is veneered, i.e. glued to higher-quality chipboard or MDF boards with a thickness of around 1 mm.

Solid wood fronts are in the upper price segment and are significantly more expensive than real wood fronts.

Real wood fronts or veneered kitchen fronts

In the real wood kitchen  , only the fronts are made of wood. These veneered kitchen fronts are referred to as real wood fronts. They can be glazed, stained, whitewashed, brushed, sandblasted, patinated and also adapted to current color trends with varnishes/colored varnishes. The surfaces are then sealed with an invisible protective layer of varnish.

Reference: kuechen-atlas.de