Kitchen Set’s Finishing (Part 8)

Lunarfurniture.com – There are a lot of people who think that the appearance can affect the human’s mindset. As an example, there are a lot of people who dressed so neat which work as young businessman or office worker which frequently related with many people. They believe that the neat appearance can affect the trust of working relation and might give positive impact for business correspondences. The same thing is related to the stuffs used by human. If the appearance of the stuff is quite nice, then it might be that all of human activities related to the stuffs will be done in comfort feeling and better.

In the furniture just like kitchen set, there are several factors affecting its appearance. One of the factors is the nice finishing material. In the earlier article, we already discussed one finishing material which is classified as the laminate kinds and called as the veneer. Right now, we will discuss the other finishing material kind which is widely called as the HPL or High Pressure Laminate.

 The HPL finishing is made by a kind of acrylic mixture which commonly is on the back side of the layer; meanwhile, the outer side is made by wooden. The wooden part makes the kitchen set’s appearance will get the natural wooden color. The HPL finishing is quite strong and elastic and when it is attached you can bend it easily so that you can put it on the edge of the furniture. In the market, we can find the HPL layers in 120 cm x 240 cm x 3 mm size. The motif kinds is available in various colors, but the plain color is quite cheap; exception for the silver color. Unfortunately, the HPL color is easily fading during the ageing of the kitchen set. The attachment of the finishing can be done by using a kind of glue.

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