Painted doors

Hi BB,

It is absolutely normal and o.k. to use white melamine board behind painted doors for the carcasses of a panel based cabinet system.

As you say, when the doors are closed you can't see the cabinet edges.

Matching the colour of carcass edges, while possible, would at least double the work for the cabinet maker and of course increase the cost proportionally - and then some.

I would not spec any of my carcasses any thing but white unless there was an extremely convincing ($$$) reason for it.

Cheers,

Earl

BestBuilder, I’m confused???

Are looking to get a new kitchen designed this way or are you about to paint an existing kitchens doors yourself?

I would do the same dark colour on the door trim; to me any other colour will be too noticeable.

I thought he was talking about the door trim????

The front of the cupboards, carcase?? This should be the same colour as the rest of the cupboards, I’m confused…….

Perhaps BestBuilder, you could have another go at describing your dilemma to us.
I think we are picturing a different problem to what you have.

Bestbulders question seemed pretty clear to me:

"When you get a painted kitchen is it OK to leave the carcass behind the doors a white laminate, or do you need to somehow match the colour to the doors?

ie When you shut the door you generally can't see the white laminate behind, or is this a cheap option and really the inside edge should be the same colour? "

As I advised, I have never had a client ask for this, nor do I see a need for it.

It can be done but it would be expensive, as each piece of board cut for the carcasses would have to be edged twice in different colours: any cabinet maker would charge you premium for it.

Having said that I was in the city (Brisbane) this morning and saw a shop being fitted out where all the leading edges (that's the front edges) of the carcasses had been edged in a dark brown, presumably to match the doors.
In my professsional opinion whoever specified this took complete advantage of thier client, as it would have really gouged them.

Even so called "solid timber" kitchens use white melamine carcasses these days.

On the other hand if, for example, the client wanted to use a dark coloured postformed edge door it is conceivable that some of the white would be visible - it depends on how well the designer specifies the gaps and tolerences - I have seen rolled edge doors where a 3mm gap just looks enormous with the two radii adding what "appears" to be another couple of mm to the gap.

White carcasses will be fine - just watch how big the space allowances are.

Cheers,

Earl

B. Industrial Design

White laminate edging on the carcass & shelving.
The kids leave our doors open all the time so where do you stop - shelving & edge stips to match the doors ??

jeez renomart are the carcass's made of gold?

what are they actually made of?? The carcass's of most kitchens shouldn't cost more than $2500!!