Expert Tips For Choosing New Door Fronts To Suit Your Existing Units

Whether you want your kitchen to enable you to prepare elaborate dishes with ease or offer an entertaining space that your friends and family love spending time in, great kitchen design strikes the right balance between form and functionality to create beautiful spaces that are perfectly suited to how you live.

If you find yourself looking around at your kitchen and feeling as though something isn't quite right, it might be because your space doesn't feel cohesive. While the structure and layout of your space may be perfect, there could be something about your current kitchen door fronts that doesn't quite align with either your personal style or the style of your home.

Installing new replacement kitchen doors that are better suited to your space is a straightforward upgrade that really can make a transformational difference to the way your kitchen looks. So, let's take a look at a few different styles and share some top tips to ensure your new doors perfectly suit your existing units.

Finding Your Style with Bespoke Kitchen Cabinetry

One of the best things about choosing made to measure kitchen doors is that you can easily replace your existing doors with a style that is better aligned with your personal taste. If you enjoy classic interiors with a contemporary twist, our Bella Shaker doors are an excellent option as they can freshen up your kitchen whilst also adding a touch of character.

If you're hoping to give your kitchen a more modern and streamlined look, our Ora slab doors have a simple yet elegant silhouette, as well as a soft touch feel and colour matched reverse for a high quality finish.

Our Jayline handleless doors are a style to consider if your kitchen feels quite small and you want to make it feel lighter and brighter. The handleless style creates a sleek look, and there are a range of supergloss finishes to choose from, which effortlessly reflect the light for a more spacious feel.

Pro Tip: Once you've found your ideal cabinet doors, it's time to think about some of the smaller details to ensure that you achieve the high quality finish your home deserves.

Depending on the layout of your existing cabinets, you may need one or more accessories to achieve a seamless finish and ensure that your new doors don't stand out for the wrong reasons. So, let's take a look at a selection of the accessories that may complement your new Happy Doors kitchen cabinet doors.

Consider End Panels

If the sides of some of your kitchen cabinets are exposed, you'll likely need some end panels that match your new replacement kitchen doors. These affordable decorative panels are designed to conceal the internal structure of the cabinet and create a uniform, highly polished finish.

Iron-On Edging Tape

Also sometimes known as edge banding, iron-on edging tape is designed to seamlessly cover any unfinished edges on your cabinets in the same finish as your new doors. Our iron-on edging tape comes pre-glued, which means it can easily be applied and secured in place with a household iron.

Self Adhesive Vinyl

Our self adhesive vinyl can be trimmed to any size with ease and is a simple way to change the colour of the sides of your kitchen cabinets to match your new doors. Designed to match our full range of Bella kitchen cabinet doors, you can simply peel the vinyl away from the backing and apply it to a flat surface for a seamless look.

Cornices and Pelmets

Cornices and pelmets which match your new kitchen unit doors can help to give a clean and professional finish that feels cohesive and well planned. These decorative flourishes can be used in a variety of different ways to streamline your kitchen cabinetry, including concealing gaps between the ceiling and cabinets and hiding built-in lighting fixtures for a cohesive finish.

Pro Tip: We stock a variety of cornices and pelmets to match many of our kitchen cabinet doors. If you're unsure whether your kitchen will benefit from these decorative additions, we're on hand to offer tailored advice to make sure you're 100% happy with your new kitchen.

Plinths

Also sometimes referred to as toe kicks or kickboards, plinths are panels that sit at the bottom of base cabinets to conceal any space between the floor and the units themselves. As well as creating a polished finish, plinths also prevent debris, food and dust from collecting underneath your cabinets, which can be tricky to clean.

Pro Tip: Choosing a plinth in the same colour as your new cabinet doors will create a seamless finish; however, you could also choose a plinth in a contrasting colour to give your kitchen an unexpected design feature.

Frequently Asked Questions About Replacing Kitchen Doors

How do I choose the right colour and finish for my new kitchen doors?

When you've found your perfect style, the next task is selecting the right colour and finish, which we know can often be the most difficult part of the process. Comparing colour swatches in person is often the easiest way to confidently make the right choice and eliminate any guesswork, so you can order up to six colour samples completely free of charge directly from our website.

I'm unsure whether I'll need any accessories to finish my kitchen renovation project to a high standard. Can you give me any advice?

We want you to be happy with every element of your new kitchen, which is why we're always available to provide our expert help and advice. Whether you've got a quick question about measuring or you'd like to talk through our full range of kitchen door accessories and learn more about how they can help you to achieve the best finish, you can give us a call or drop us an email any time.