How Tough Are High Gloss Kitchen Cupboard Doors?

Dragon

Please could anyone tell me how durable the very glossy kitchen cupboard doors are? We have to replace all the carcasses and door/drawer fronts in our kitchen and they must be white but manufacturers only seem to do the very high gloss finish in white. My husband doesn't think this will take the knocks like a matt finish could. It's not cheap to replace a kitchen anyway but if you have to do it again because the doors don't last - oh the pain!
Can anyone help please?

Ionkontrol

It depends if they are foil, vinyl, paint or laminate. Do you know?

the_other_mce

I've had B&Q ones for over a year now and I am very impressed with them.
They are still glossy, marks just seem to wipe off with a damp cloth. I have two kids (school age) and a partner - who all love to 'help' in the kitchen.... other doors have been trashed in this time.....
hope that helps a bit

Doozergirl

I don't think they wear worse than anything else. Seems the people who think that, haven't lived with a glossy kitchen.

Gloss laminate worktops might show scratches more (I still don't think it's as much of an issue as people say) but you're doing things on a work surface that might see it get scratched - moving stuff about, cutting etc. You don't do that to a door!

mardatha

I've had a high gloss white kitchen for 12 yrs and the doors are still perfect.:)

Hugbubble

I've just moved into a flat and the high white gloss* kitchen hasn't been changed since the building was converted 7 years ago, and they look as good as new.

* actually it is a mixture of mainly white gloss interspersed with a couple stainless steel cupboards- the steel doors look pretty bad due to some bright spark taking a scourer to them...and as for the cheap worktop- pah

Dragon

Thanks for your reply. Haven't bought anything yet but we were looking at B & Q and I can't see in their brochure that it says what they are, so I can't answer your question I'm afraid. What would you recommend?