Why Buy Laminate Kitchen Cabinets?

There’s a huge range of kitchen cabinet finishes and materials available. Why would you choose laminate kitchen cabinets? Are they the best kitchen cabinets for you?

Hard wearing

High pressure laminates are very tough and hardwearing and perfect for family kitchens where pets, kids and toys tend to be hard on cabinets, especially base cabinet doors and drawer fronts. Low pressure laminate – melamine – is less hard wearing but stull tough enough for most kitchens.

Economical

Laminate cabinets are often on the lower end of the price range (although you can also find some pretty expensive ones!) and give you a very good “bang for the buck” if you don’t have a lot of money to spend.

Good looking

Do you like the Euro-look? Then laminate may well be your finish of choice, in hundreds of colors and patterns, glossy or matte, smooth or textured. Laminate kitchen cabinet doors are often flat slabs which give a clean, modern look and are a fine showplace for assertive colors and patterns.

Long-lasting

Unless you cut on them (and who cuts against their cabinet doors, for goodness sake?) or beat on the edges really hard, laminate finishes will last a very long time. My mother’s laminate kitchen is still going strong after 40 years.

Fashionable

Yes, really! While we look at old laminate counters and cabinets today and often think “dowdy”, at the time they were the height of fashion, and you can get today’s trendy colors and finishes in laminate too. If you’re the kind of person who changes their kitchen more frequently than most in order to be in fashion, laminate lets you do that for less cost than high end wood or stainless steel cabinets.

Easily available

Laminate cabs are a mainstay of home centers and RTA vendors like IKEA. If what you want is a popular style, you may be able to drive up to the store, buy your kitchen and take it home today! How easy is that?

Green

Yes, laminate is plastic. But the substrate (the panel products it’s attached to) can be made from waste materials like wood chips and even wheat straw, using eco-friendly adhesives which don’t off-gas formaldehyde or other poisons into your home. These eco-friendly cabinets are less commonly available but they are available – if you want them, you’ll need to do a bit more research.