FRAMELESS CONSTRUCTION AND PAINT FINISHES DOMINATE CABINET TRENDS

Frameless cabinets and paint finishes are among the more popular cabinetry elements right now, according to a survey conducted by Woodworking Network. The survey polled 42 companies and 167 kitchen cabinet displays at the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show in Las Vegas in February. The survey includes information on finishes, stains, materials, drawers, doors, and cabinet case construction.
Case Construction
Frameless cabinet construction, which took the top spot for the first time last year, continues to lead with 40% of the displays. In second place were faceframes with full overlay doors, a look that can often mimic the clean appearance of frameless cabinets. Faceframe, full overlay accounted for 30.5% of the cabinets displayed, a decline of 14 percentage points from last year.
Moving up were conventional faceframe cabinets, which rose to 25% this year compared to a mere 8% last year. Inset doors were also stronger this year, coming in at 3.6% compared to about half that number last year.
Paint Over Stains
A number of designers and finishing experts have pointed out the trend of paint and laminates replacing wood stains in the last few years. That was definitely seen in our tally of what kitchen cabinet companies were displaying at the show.
More than 55% of the displays showed a painted finish. About 31% of the displays used some form of laminate, including nearly 14% that featured new textured laminates. Only about 32.8% of the displays featured stained wood.
Still, when it’s said and done, white is still the king of the kitchen. One salesman we talked to said pointedly, “If you don’t show white Shaker, you get voted off the island.” White paint accounted for more than 25% of all the displays, and white laminate added another 7%. White also showed up in some of the modern, high-gloss and acrylic applications, making well over a third of all displays having some white elements. Following white, gray was the most popular color, accounting for about 11% of all the displays. Accent colors such as blues, blacks, and dark browns were also popular.
Dark Dominates Stains
White might still be the most popular kitchen color, but when it comes to stains, dark dominates. Of all the stained wood choices, dark stains accounted for 16%, medium stains 14%, and light stains a little more than 3%.
Megan Mazur, vice president of sales and marketing for Kitchen Cabinet Distributors, said, “We’re seeing a trend toward lighter stains and we’ll be adjusting for that in the future.”
“For colors, white, off-white, and gray are still high in demand,” said Virgil Yoder of Kountry Wood Products. “Dark stains are trending down.”

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