Do you know what material the cupboard/cabinet is made of?

This is an important question to ask when you carry out a renovation on certain areas of your home, especially the kitchen, that has fixed furniture set such as the cupboard/cabinet. We must not only pay attention to the appearance of the cabinet, but also the material is very important. Because there are many kinds of materials in the cabinets, which come with some advantages and disadvantages. Hence, you need to know what materials are used in the kitchen cabinets.

What kind of materials are used in cabinets?

• Solid wood board: the biggest advantage of this material is environmentally friendly, the color is also more, if you pay more attention to the grade, and you can use this material. However, the price of this material is relatively expensive and needs to be determined by combining conditions.

• Particleboard: It is one of the more common cabinet materials. The material used here is mainly made of wood scrap, and the production method is different.

  
  

• Fire board: the surface of this material is decorated with fireproof board, the biggest point is that the color is rich, economical and beautiful.

  
  

  
  

• Plexiglas: This material is quite special, and it is also very grade and style, the visual feeling is also very comfortable, and has very good anti-aging, environmental protection and other advantages.

• Plastic plate: plastic plate is a kind of seamless molding process, the biggest advantage is that fire and moisture resistance is good, but this material cannot withstand high temperatures, it is easy to deform.

Most importantly, for those designs on the cabinet, particularly for the plastic board, the board extrusion lines are indispensable. 

How to choose cabinets?

• Edge banding: Most of the current cabinets are customized, but different brand differences are also different. When we choose the cabinet, we should look at the edge sealing problem of the board, see if the details are done, and also look at the delicateness and smoothness of the line.

• Slide rail: good cabinets whether it is a large design or a small design will not have too many problems. Under normal circumstances, the quality of the drawer slide switch and closure is very smooth, and the poor quality of the slide rail is relatively poor.

• Cutting board: the size accuracy of the cutting board directly affects the quality of the later cabinets, but also relates to whether the cabinet is firm and the service life, so be sure to pay attention to the problem of cutting when purchasing. Now there are two types of panel cutting, one is electronic cutting, and the other is ordinary cutting saw processing. These two methods have great errors, we need to carefully select.

Summary of the article: The above introduces to you what materials are used in the kitchen cabinets. The article would also help to answer the question on how to choose cabinets and other issues.