Yeah I think all the forum chat makes everyone's mental imagine default to nice baltic birch with a matt Danish oil finish, rather than mid-reddy-naff-brown.
The obvious solution is to just paint it or add a laminate that matches your cabinets. Even if that laminate is say a 5mm layer of the same type of ply as your cupboards.
Nice neat hinges and fitting combined with the right door furniture will stop it looking shit.
Thanks for this, that's really useful. I'd really rather not have to fuss with laminating a door myself, and pretty sure the builder isn't going to want to, but it is an option I guess!
Find a joinery shop that can laminate thin birch ply to a solid core door. Very common to skin and lip blanks with hardwood veneer. You want the best finish grade ply tho to avoid patches / knots etc
Yeah I think all the forum chat makes everyone's mental imagine default to nice baltic birch with a matt Danish oil finish, rather than mid-reddy-naff-brown.
The obvious solution is to just paint it or add a laminate that matches your cabinets. Even if that laminate is say a 5mm layer of the same type of ply as your cupboards.
Nice neat hinges and fitting combined with the right door furniture will stop it looking shit.