Acrylic cupboard doors for kitchen

[Mr_T25]

looking at kitchen renewal. Is acrylic regarded as cheap or middle tier for a high end home?

We've decided against lacquered due to risk of scratches and damage to paint due to young children.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Acrylic scratches easily too.

 

[Mr_T25]

But surely not as bad as lacquered? And laminate is even cheaper right?

 

[dogfonos]

Just been looking into exactly the same thing, lacquer vs. acrylic-fronted cabinet doors (i.e. a sheet of clear acrylic about 5mm thick on the door front).

I know little about the subject but having spoken to numerous suppliers, read various articles and nosed around on forums over the past few months, I've come to the conclusion that a lacquered finish suits us best because, allegedly, lacquer can be repaired to as-good-as-new if scratched whilst acrylic can't. As has already been said, it appears that an acrylic surface scratches just as easily (some say more easily than a high quality lacquer) but it usually doesn't look so obvious because the scratch doesn't go deep enough to affect the colour layer (unless someone is really going at it, I guess!).

 

[Mr_T25]

Of course, cost of lacquer is hugely more expensive too.