Reasonably new to the market is a Laminate Door product called Avellino, which is made to custom sizes for the trade by Polytec, who use some of their Woodgrain Laminate Board range to make these composite doors. This Avellino Laminate Door is made up of Two Side Rails with Vertical running Grain which are fixed to a Centre Panel with Horizontal running Grain that is then Edge stripped all around. The Avellino door is a stylish new alternative to having a plain flat Laminate Door and lends itself well when used in contemporary Scandinavian Style Kitchens.

For help in finding your favourite Kitchen Door Laminate Colour, Patern or Woodgrain you can find samples by visiting our Suppliers links we have set up for you at the bottom of our main Materials Page. Each Manufacturer also has the provision for you to order Free Laminate Colour Swatches which they will then post out to you. This is particularly helpful because you can not only see the true colour but also see the finish and get an idea of its performance.

Most of us are familiar with the basic features of Decorative Laminate Board; with this having reasonably high resistance to wear, heat and to staining, so here we would like to talk more about this versatile material in a little more detail and hope that this helps you with your selection process of finding the right material to suit your needs.

Laminate Kitchen Doors are made from Factory Laminated Board, these can have a core of either a Particleboard or an MDF (Medium-Density Fiberboard) or an HDF (High-Density Fiberboard) or even some with a Plywood core and all come in either Standard or Moisture Resistant versions. These boards are made into Laminated Board by pressing a series of films onto their surfaces, both sides; first using a Decorative photographic layer of either a Colour or a Woodgrain or a Pattern which is then followed by pressing a  thin layer of hard-wearing, protective, clear melamine resin over the top.

This Laminated board material is then cut by us to the sizes required to make Laminate Kitchen Doors and Panels, Open Shelving and Base Kickers. This Laminated board material is available in a huge selection of Colours, Patterns, Woodgrains and Metallics which are also pressed with plates making a wide variety of surface finishes too, these include; Matte, Ultramatt, Satin, Sheen, Textured, AbsoluteMatt, Natural, Flint, Grained, silk, semi-gloss and Gloss finishes.

Laminate Doors and Panels, in general, are Flat Two Dimensional panels so have limitations to the door design itself but lending itself well to the modern contemporary style. An exception to this is the Laminate Door called the Avellino which are shown at the bottom of this page which are made by cutting laminate board into rails and gluing these back to Laminate panels.
 

All types of Laminate door & Panels are cut to size from large sheets of Laminated Board and then need to have edge strips applied to their raw cut edges. Edges are generally finished with a matching colour edge strip (though these can be contrasting). The Edge Strip material types range from an inconspicuous 0.5 mm melamine strip, or a 0.5 - 1.0 mm printed PVC Edge Strip or a 1 mm and 2 mm in ABS plastic strip. Most Australian Laminate Board manufacturers today, however, have moved toward only making edge strip in the 1 mm and 2 mm in ABS plastic material to match their colour range. ABS is a lower density, printed strip, in a solid colour, where the edge and the joint line of these ABS Strips are quite visible. All these edge strip types produce a Square Edge profile around the door with a visible glue joint, which importantly is also susceptible to moisture penetration as well as colour fading and discolouration over time.