A Cost Effective Kitchen Makeover

The beauty of the modern kitchen is how easy it is to give it a makeover without having to replace everything, from the units to the doors and drawer fronts. Since the advent of kitchen units being made to standard widths meant numerous kitchen door designs could easily be fitted to existing kitchen units. This gave way to some manufacturing companies focusing solely on replacement doors rather than manufacturing entire units as catering for just one or two aspects of the 'mix and match' market. Changing the style and feel of a kitchen has never been easier, especially if you're happy with the current layout as only replacement kitchen doors and drawer fronts are required to give any kitchen a completely new look.

Traditionally the cheap kitchen doors were constructed from chip board, however this had a limited life span as it tended to split and crack through repeated use. This led to kitchen doors and drawer fronts being constructed from MDF (medium density fibreboard) as this material is far more resilient to repeated use, especially repeated slamming, than the old chipboard construction. The MDF doors, like chipboard, are clad in a variety of finishes which resemble a wide variety of natural woods such as oak, pine, mahogany, ash, etcetera, as well as plain block colours. This hides the dull bonded wood fibres, makes the doors very easy to wipe clean and to an extent, protects them from scratches and chips.

Visually, kitchen doors made in this way are virtually identical to kitchen doors constructed from solid wood, yet are a fraction of the cost. Not only that, but they are far easier to keep clean, are less susceptible to scratches and chips and do not require a fresh coat of varnish every couple of years. If you consider the majority of replacement doors made from medium density fibreboard to be a cheap alternative than solid wood doors, then you're severely mistaken. Utilising a material such as MDF enables the doors or drawer fronts to made in large numbers of exactly the same height, width and thickness and the laminate covering also adds to the unrivalled uniformity of these replacement doors and drawer fronts, something which would be not only hard to achieve with natural wood, but also prohibitively expensive too.

Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) doors are not cheap kitchen doors; they are simply more cost effective than their solid wood alternative, and having such a massive choice of styles available, you can give your kitchen a complete makeover without breaking the bank.