Kitchen doors and carcasses

[Martin]

Hi,

Does anyone know thw set place for kitchen carcasses, and also for standard sized pine doors which are suitable for painting to my own choice of colour?

The doors must be reasonably priced - I have seen companies that make them to order, but these are out of my price range.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Martin.

[Grunff]

I've bought units from B&Q, Wickes and MFI. IMHO there's very little difference between them. B&Q have the advantage of carrying a lot of stock of their standard range, which means if you find you need one extra unit on Sunday, you can go and pick one up.

As for doors - you really want to buy pine doors then paint them? Paint isn't a very durable finish, and takes a lot of work to get right. Would you not be better off buing doors finished in an appropriate colour?

[Martin]

I have painted bathroom cabinets and applied several coats of acrylic eggshell varnish and have had no problems with durability - even with 4 children in the house. I want to use Farrow & Ball paints in traditional colours to make the kitchen look bespoke, but unfortunately I cannot afford for a cabinet maker to do it for me. I know it will be time consuming, but I think it will be worth it in the long-run.

B&Q do "Premium" cabinet doors on the web site, but they never seem to have the full range in stock and do not seem to let you put them on back order or contact them in any way!

[John Rumm]

Sounds like the ideal sort of job to work out how to spray them, that would make it quite quick, and impove the quality of the finsh.

[simon beer]

I've hand built my own kitchen out of wood. All the carcasses are made of

18mm ply then all wood faced and hand made doors. Painted in F&Ball matt emulsion! Looks great and very hardy. This is the second one I've made and hand painted, and like you have children, never had any paint chip off. I go over the emulsion paint with a clear wax finish. Next time I would consider buying a compressor and spraying and finishing with a clear glaze or something. Some of the units or doors are left as wood and stained with a stripped pine stain and polished. I have some pics if your interested in giving it a go yourself!

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