Should you buy a wood laminate kitchen?
If you’re looking for a good-quality kitchen, there are lots of different door materials to choose from. One of these is wood laminate. So, should you buy a wood laminate kitchen?
Reasons to buy a wood laminate kitchen:
Cost
A good-quality kitchen is never going to be cheap. However, some finishes cost more than others. Thankfully, wood laminate doors are one of the cheapest finishes.
Durability
A kitchen that looks great in the showroom is great, but you need one that stands up to use. This is especially true if you have young children. Besides its normal uses, your kitchen could be anything from a battlefield to a racetrack for toy cars. The finishes on the doors need to be tough to stand up to the battering they’ll get.
A wood laminate kitchen is one of the most durable finishes, standing up well to the efforts of young children.
In addition, it will never fade or change colour like a wood veneer kitchen can.
Also, a wood laminate kitchen will never peel like a wrapped kitchen can.
Seamless finish
One of the biggest challenges when buying a new kitchen is to find worktops that match the doors. However, when you buy a wood laminate kitchen, some suppliers offer the option of having matching wood laminate worktops. This gives you a perfectly seamless finish.
Plus, these worktops are substantially cheaper than having granite, quartz, ceramic or Corian worktops. Wood laminate worktops usually cost about £800. In contrast, granite, quartz, ceramic or Corian worktops rarely cost less than £3,000.
Below are examples of wood laminate kitchens with matching wood laminate worktops.
Reasons not to buy a wood laminate kitchen:
It’s not real wood
The only downside of buying a wood laminate kitchen is that it isn’t real wood. Real wood has a natural beauty, with variations in grain, colour and texture, which you don’t get with a wood laminate kitchen.
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