High Gloss
Putting a high-gloss on it
Like most home improvement businesses, the fitted furniture industry is subject to trends and fashions. The difficult trick for bespoke furniture manufacturers is spotting the trend and staying ahead of the curve.
Unlike the clothing inside your fitted wardrobes, the cabinetry is expected to last for decades and should come with a ten-year guarantee at the very least. The problem for the consumer is finding a range of bedroom or living room furniture that pleases today's aesthetic but will not look dated in five years' time.
What is ‘classic', ‘traditional', ‘modern' or ‘contemporary' is a subjective choice and whatever style you choose for your built-in furniture has to please you now without the propensity to look dated the next time you redecorate.
In my view, an excellent choice is plain, flat, minimalist doors in, high-gloss finish. This is a very modern look but does not offend in an older style house and has the added benefit of making rooms look bigger, is low maintenance and does not tie you into any particular style of decoration; use it with plain walls to create an open spacious effect or try it with a bold patterned wallpaper for dramatic impact.
High-gloss works well in fitted bedrooms, living rooms and on audio visual units and can be used to create a stunning contemporary home office.
High-gloss fitted furniture has been around for over decades so it looks as if it is here to stay, is not just a fashion trend and will, no doubt, still look up to date when the guarantee has long expired.
The earliest examples of high-gloss furniture were pioneered by a company called Meredew back in the 1960s and used a tough polyester finish over both light and dark wood veneers. The finish was applied using a ‘curtain-coating method in which the doors and panels were passed through a ‘waterfall' or ‘curtain' that poured the polyester lacquer in a technologically controlled stream that was so even that you could hardly see it moving. The whole process required a dust-free, environment and was very expensive to maintain. This process was only economical for mass production runs and did not lend itself to bespoke manufacture.
later developments in automotive finishes, using acid-catalysed, hand sprayed lacquers have transferred into furniture manufacture and allow much greater flexibility in small batch production. It is now possible to offer a virtually unlimited range of colours and apply high-gloss to both plain mdf and wood veneers. The gloss is obtained by hand-polishing with ‘cutting pastes', again a motor industry development.
Other types of high-gloss finish such as solid acrylics are available but are often prohibitively expensive and not as hard or scratch resistant.
At Options Furniture we have achieved some stunning high-gloss effects by spraying lacquer onto the back of glass before fixing it to the furniture; this offers the same wide choice of colours with high durability but is still expensive.
There are also some vinyl-wrapped high-gloss finishes around but the nature of vinyl's renders them soft and easily scratched or damaged. Also, the vinyl finish tends to dull down in a very short time and the look is very plastic.
The latest breakthrough in high-gloss finishes has now arrived and looks very exciting; high gloss laminates. Early attempts at using high-gloss laminate on chipboard substrates were not very successful because the inherently course surface of particle board showed through the surface of the quite thin laminates. However, the second generation of high-gloss laminates, in both wood effects and solid colours, on mdf are setting a new standard in finish quality, is tough enough for a fitted home office or study and seems set to establish the fitted furniture look for this decade.
Ask your bespoke fitted furniture designer about the new possibilities in high-gloss laminated fitted furniture.
About the Author
Madeline Lancaster, a successful business owner of decor sites discusses Fitted Furniture and Fitted home office or study . Finish your furniture in style. Click today - http://www.optionsfit.com/
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