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Lacquer: three coats, two clear, your colour.

Every RAL on the card, matte 5% to gloss 90%, cured at 60°C for 45 minutes - a painted sample ships with your first quote, so you approve the real colour, not a screen.

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Matte black lacquered island run with oak worktop, real Australian installation

Why lacquer

A painted door is only as good as its cure.

Most painted fronts fail at the edges: the colour chatters, the matte goes flat-spot, the clear coat lifts after a year of kitchen heat. Our schedule - three colour coats, two clear coats, each flash-dried, then a 60°C × 45 minute oven cure - is what keeps the finish level at the 1.5 mm reveal.

And because the colour is ours to mix, "close to the swatch" isn't an option. You name the RAL, we match it, and a painted sample of your actual colour ships with the first quote.

ColourAny RAL, matched to your reference
Gloss rangeMatte 5% - gloss 90%
Cure60°C × 45 min, 3 colour + 2 clear coats
HardwareBlum soft-close, 50,000-cycle
Door loadSingle door up to 28 kg
MOQMixed orders from 1,500 sq ft - no minimum at the sample stage (how it is set)
Board18 mm E0 plywood, ≤0.05 mg/m³ (GB/T 39600, report SQ2405393) - certificates
SamplePainted sample ships with your first quote - door samples

Standard sizes

Every box, in the standard range.

Part	Height	Depth	Width
Base	34½″ box · 36″ finished	24″	9″ - 48″, 3″ steps
Wall	30″ / 36″ / 42″	12″	9″ - 48″, 3″ steps
Tall / pantry	84″ / 90″ / 96″	24″	12″ - 36″

The full spec - toe kick, sink bases, shallow runs, vanity widths - is on the cabinet sizes page. Anything outside the table is itemised on the production list, not quoted off a chart.

The schedule

Five steps, in order.

Match

RAL or a physical reference - we mix to it before anything is cut.

Prime

Seal coat over the substrate, sanded flat; the base the colour sits on.

Colour

Three coats, each flash-dried, levelled by hand at the last pass.

Cure

60°C × 45 minutes in the oven. This step is what you can't fake.

Clear

Two clear coats for the gloss spec, one UV top for the mattes.

Cure is the difference between a painted box and a lacquered front: it cross-links the film so it takes heat, steam and daily knocks. Skipped or underdone, and the matte goes flat-spot within a year.

The wall

Twenty-four house colours, before we ever mix yours.

The standard card below covers what we ship most. Anything on the RAL card is a sample-with-quote colour - the painted panel arrives with the first quote so you approve the real thing.

In the room

What a lacquered run actually looks like.

Walk-in closet in a light linen lacquered finish — Linen, matte - the walk-in program

White high-gloss lacquered wardrobe doors — Bone, gloss 90% - wardrobe wall

Charcoal flat slab kitchen run in a painted matte finish — **Ink, matte** - the charcoal slab run

White lacquered kitchen island in a classical layout — Snow, matte 10% - the bright default

White painted kitchen with island and chandelier — The classical read, painted to the last door

White kitchen run with island seating — White run, island seating

Hardware & fit-out

The fittings under the paint.

Painted fronts get the same fittings as every other line: Blum hinges cycled to 50,000, full-extension runners, soft-close throughout.

Tall pull-out basket in a painted run — Tall basket, the painted version

Spice pull-out in a tall unit, wire racks — Spice pull-out in the tall unit

Tall pull-out in a painted run — Tall pull-out, the painted version

HingesBlum soft-close, 50,000-cycle (DTC available)
RunnersFull-extension, 35-45 kg per pair
Pull-outsQuoted per system, soft-close
Door loadSingle door up to 28 kg

At scale

The room, at scale.

Twenty-four house colours, or your RAL matched to a painted sample.

White handleless kitchen with a wall-mounted hood and a dark worktop, installed for a customer. — The white shaker, bar stools included

White kitchen with island and stools — The bright default, island + stools

Door styles

Three doors, one paint schedule.

Shaker in lacquer

The Oakline profile, painted - the reveal shadow stays crisp because the colour is levelled by hand.

Two-tone kitchen with charcoal base units, pale fronts and warm wood tall cabinets - design rendering

Flat slab

No profile, no hardware - push-open fronts on the aluminium frame, 1.5 mm reveal.

Fluted reeded doors in a light walk-in run

Fluted, natural or painted

The reeded door takes the full lacquer schedule - shown here in natural veneer.

Cases

Built and shipped.

Whole-home kitchen and closet program with painted fronts

A whole-home program, UK

Painted fronts through kitchen, bath and closet in one finish batch - one container, no batch drift.

Great room of a two-tone UK residence, living and dining

A two-tone house, UK

Light uppers, dark island, duty-paid to a UK residence - two painted concepts, one cure schedule, zero mismatch.

FAQ

Lacquer, in plain answers.

Can you match any RAL or a physical reference?

Yes. Send the RAL number or a physical reference and we mix to it. A painted sample of your actual colour ships with the first quote, so what you approve is what gets built - no "close enough" at install.

Matte or gloss - which ages better in a kitchen?

Matte 5-15% hides handling marks and flat-spots best; gloss 90% is the statement finish and shows more. Both are oven-cured the same way. For a busy kitchen the matte is the safer daily finish; the gloss is the feature-wall finish.

Will two rooms painted in the same RAL match?

If they're in the same finish batch, yes - that's why we build whole-home programs in one batch. If a room is added years later, the colour is re-matched to your retained sample; the schedule is the same, so the result holds. Keep one sample panel per colour.

How much extra does painted cost over MFC?

Lacquer runs are quoted per spec on your drawings - the number lands with the 3D layout. The step up over matte MFC is real (three colour coats, two clear, an oven cure) but it's a per-door delta, not a per-room premium, so a painted feature wall is a small move.

What's the lead time on a painted run?

Cure adds time inside the same window: lacquered runs land toward the longer end of the 10-14 day factory lead. Door-to-door DDP is 18-22 days to the US West, 32-40 to the US East, 15-20 to Sydney.

Same box

The other lines on the same carcase.

Flatstone

No hardware. No compromise - continuous slab fronts with a shadow gap instead of handles.

Veneer

Book-matched natural veneer on the same E0 carcase, honed stone on the islands.

Stainless

The material that never dates - 304 steel box and island, hairline or bead-blasted.

For specifiers

Buying for a client, a portfolio or your own brand?

Volume pricing, OEM/ODM programs and a sample kit - the dealer line answers in your time zone.

Dealer program OEM / ODM

Pricing at a glance

Your number, worked out on your plan.

Made-to-order is priced by size, box construction and finish. We quote per linear foot, duty-paid, against your final drawing - with ocean freight, duty, clearance and delivery inside the number. Your exact, fixed duty-paid (DDP) quote is free - no obligation.

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Your colour, sampled before we cut a thing.

Send the RAL or a reference - the painted panel comes back with your first quote.

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