What's In Style?
Over recent years high gloss and dark wood (such as zebrano) finishes are right on trend. Other nods to fashion include super-wide drawers, a run of floor-to-ceiling units and minimal or totally hidden handles.
It's worth buying carcasses and doors from the DIY superstores but the extras such as plinth and cornice are often overpriced. Buy standard timber mouldings and varnish or paint to match the rest of the kitchen.
Even if you've gone for budget doors, spend any extra cash on the best handles you can afford. These will be the part of the door you will handle everyday and provide eye-catching detail to a kitchen.
Here's some of the hottest kitchen door retailers around so you can give your cooking space the update it needs.
www.doors.homestylekitchens.co.uk
Select from 30 door styles and 35 finishes in the Premier range alone. Prices start from around £10 per door.
www.diy-kitchens.com
Replacement doors plus lighting, worktops and pretty much everything else you might need for a kitchen refurb. Worth a look for the high quality Milton range of 'frame in' doors. These mimic the look of a solid timber hand built kitchen as the doors and drawers close snugly into a surrounding frame. Standard fitted kitchen doors fit over the chipboard carcass.
www.worldofdoors.co.uk
Mainly traditional but solid 18mm thick doors but can also modern high gloss versions in over 60 colours.
www.doorshandleshinges.co.uk
Lots of handy info on measuring and ordering your replacement doors.
It's always worth checking a local kitchen retailer first, but these big three also offer stylish doors at decent prices.
Homebase www.homebase.co.uk
Wickes www.wickes.co.uk
B&Q www.diy.com
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