Trends in cabinets vary from color and choice of hardware. But for European kitchen design, it’s the clean, glossy finish of the cabinets and doors that helps make the style stand out. The contemporary elegance and sophistication of European cabinetry design has become a coveted style for homeowners across the nation. European design reinforces the colors, textures, and form of Mid-Century Modern and Bauhaus designs. European style is at once minimalist, innovative, and elegant.
The popularity of European design is easily recognized in the kitchen. The appeal lying somewhere in between our quest for simple pragmatism and our need for personal style. In the European kitchen, you’ll notice elements such as high-gloss cabinets, countertops made from stone, steel, or even leather. Also LED cove lighting, and versatile, yet compact, stainless steel appliances.
European design often features a subdued, natural color palate that sometimes includes a pop of color. As well as an eclectic mix of elements for cabinets and countertops.
The statement and appeal of furniture is mainly a question of its surface. While gloss so far stood for refinement and sophistication, matt is now increasingly making inroads into the furniture world currently dominated by gloss.
When it comes to a minimalist statement, restricting the furniture design to the essentials, the surfaces are matt. “Matt” and “Gloss” exist parallel and complimentary to each other and now less due to functionality, production conditions and technical possibilities, but as an expression of multilayer trends – the dull simplicity of matt allowing its counterpart to shine.
WOOD GRAIN FINISHES : “Wood grains are also being used horizontally instead of vertically, and we also see a combination of wood grains and solid colors,” Surges Homes with his latest collection of European ‘’TSS’’laminates (Textured Structured Surface) raises the bar in offering the most realistic wood grain decorative panels in todays market place. The natural characteristics found in real wood such as ticking, knots, and texture have been successfully incorporated into the surface. The look and feel of the surfaces resembles real wood. Wood Grains and textures that will fool the most experienced eye in thinking its real wood.
To bring homeowners the most authentic and high-quality European designs, Surge Homes has partnered exclusively with Tendances Concept for cabinetry. The company is a North American cabinet maker who has a true and long experience using European most sophisticated laminates and finishes. Gianni Cianciulli, sales manager at Tendances Concept explains that the panels they use for the fabrication of the cabinet doors and components are the exact products one would find in Germany and Italy. Cianciulli also explains they are using the latest technologies to cut and edge these cabinet components, a technologie that insure a sealed edge.
What’s more, these cabinet components for most of them are FSC certified (made from sustainably harvested wood) and CARB compliant (meaning they are low-emitting materials), as well as abrasion resistant.
“A new generation of home buyers wants (kitchen elements) that are soft, easy to maintain, and environmentally friendly,” Cianciulli explains.
