Kitchen Doors

Choose the Right Materials for Your Specific Use

Choosing the right kitchen cupboard doors will give your kitchen the look that you desire while maintaining their functionality.

You would want kitchen cupboard doors that will protect your valuable china and heirloom flatware. But while, protecting them from grease and heat, you may also want to show them off to your house guests.

Types of Kitchen Cupboard Doors

What are the different types of kitchen cupboard doors?

Sliding kitchen cupboard doors are gaining popularity although the old-reliable hinged cabinet doors are still the most popular.

There are many choices of materials too: wood, stainless steel, aluminum, MDF (medium-density fiberboard) and glass. Another word that’s gaining acceptance in the cabinetry world is thermofoil.

Thermofoil is basically just a seamless cover to MDF that looks very much like wood, is cheap and heat resistant. Don’t be fooled by its name, there is absolutely no foil on it. So your kitchen cupboard door will not look like it’s wrapped with aluminum foil. The negative side to it is it chips easily. But for low budget high appeal kitchens, this type of kitchen cupboard doors can be a good choice.

Choosing the Type Based on Use

Do you want to show off your old china? Then you will need glass doors.

Do you want the warmth and elegance of wood? Then your choices would be on what color and type of wood: cherry, pine or oak kitchen doors.

Would you like to keep some left-over foods for example or other food items that you don’t want kept inside the refrigerator but would need some ventilation? Then you should have slats or louvers for your kitchen cupboard doors.

Do you want the look of wood with the constraint of tight budget? Then, you should choose faux wood kitchen doors. Cheap kitchen doors can give you the protection for your utensils but within reach of your pocket book.

Having the look of wood whether real solid wood or MDF in your kitchen may be appealing but you will definitely be hiding your heirlooms and porcelain collections from your family and guests’ appreciation.

What if you want to show off your collection while keeping some of the “ugly” old utensils away from anybody’s view and also have the option to keep some food in a well-ventilated kitchen cupboard? Is it possible to have kitchen cupboard doors of different types in the same kitchen?

Yes, you can actually have a combination of all the wood, glass and louvered kitchen cupboard doors in the same kitchen, all at the same time.

Tips in Mix-matching Different Materials and Types of Kitchen Cupboard Doors

To have the homogeneous look, you can group the doors with the same materials together. Example would be, all the glass cupboard doors will go on the top areas, while all the solid wood or faux wood doors will go below. At the end of the series of glass kitchen cupboard doors, you can have a couple of louvered doors and match the last 2 doors below with the same type of louvered doors.

So what do you have? You will have series of glass kitchen cupboard doors with 2 louvered doors on the far end above and another series of wooden kitchen cupboard doors with 2 louvered doors on the far end below. You end up having 3 clusters of kitchen cabinet door types.

Be sure that you use the same wood material and color as the ones you used at the bottom cabinets to frame your glass kitchen cupboard doors above. This way, you will have a unified, clean look.

Using this technique, you can get both the beauty, the warmth of wood and still show off your fine china while keeping the ugly ones; and maintain a kitchen cabinet that’s ventilated for the foods that need some breath of air.

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