How To Achieve High-Fashion Kitchens For Less (NAPSA)—Getting just what you want in a kitchen has never been easier thanks to new developments in composite panel products and decorative laminates. Doors and drawer! fronts are a good example. : “As someone who has been involved in the cabinet industry for 27 years, I look Mixing laminates tha at the latest prod with wood grains has become very popular with ucts and go ‘wow says Steve Webb, a kitchen designers—and may save moneyin a sales and marketing remodeling budget. drawers with radius profiles on executive with Pentco Industries. Mixing laminates that look the tops and the bottoms rather like stainless steel with wood than on the sides, and with the grains has become very popular grain running horizontally rather with kitchen designers—and than vertically. “This is a direct influence from what we see going may save money in a remodeling budget. Domestically engineered on in Europe; it’s a very nice look, veneers and laminates used over very lineal,” said Webb. Whatever the design, product a variety of composite panels is a technique that has long been consistency is important and used in Europe and is now starts with using great panels. becoming very popular in Amer- Pentco uses premium medium density fiberboard with melamine ica’s kitchens. Mixing laminate types has backingfor all its paint line doors, become popular due to the num- which are precision-machined and ber of options now available. This finished with catalyzed enamels works well on furniture-like cabi- and polyurethanes. Once again, nets that help create a seamless composite panel products deliver flow between rooms—a vital con- the flexibility of mixing decorative sideration in today’s wide-open laminates with architectural paint floor plans. coatings. A generation that grew up The most popular cabinet designsstill revolve around wood thinking of laminates as fake is grains with some solid colors seeing them in a new light as mixed in to create a crisper look. they become more aware of what Other trends that many designers they get for their money: high are edging toward include the use durability, easy maintenance and of darker woods in the kitchen. a wide range of high-end design They are also opting for doors and possibilities.
