Let us provide you with on-trend ideas for working with laminate and decorated board, with a focus on contemporary colour and texture, and sculptural curves.
Laminex laminate can play a key role in realising your dream home, as part of a broader material palette or as a hero in its own right. With the extraordinary spectrum of decors in the Laminex Colour Collection, and the incredible design flexibility of the material itself, Laminex offers endless opportunities for transforming your home. Our Design Guide provides ideas on how to elevate your space using colour, texture and curves. Or for a quick overview, read on!
Colour Play
Colour has made a huge comeback in contemporary interior design, for good reason. You can use it to create all kinds of effects, from bold impact to calming serenity, and even hidden surprise inside cupboards and drawers.
Our Design Guide explores four ways you can play with colour in your next project - including creating unexpected highlights in cabinetry, making an impact with blocked colour, bringing calm with a dreamy tonal palette or embracing bold colours from the natural world.
Textural Contrast
Textured surfaces add visual interest, authenticity and tactility. But when you place different textures next to each other – matte and gloss, tile and stone, woodgrain and woodgrain – the contrast can bring a whole new energy to a space.
Whether it’s pairing surfaces with different textural qualities or working with super-matte surfaces, our Design Guide will inspire you to create compelling visual and tactile effects in your next project.
Sculptural Curves
Laminex laminate’s innate design flexibility means that it can be formed into eye-catching organic shapes that would be very expensive, or simply not possible to achieve, with other materials.
Our Design Guide explores various fabrication processes including post-forming, that allows laminate to be fabricated into custom bullnose handles, shelves and other detailing featuring tight curves. For wider, free flowing curves, we explore the cold-forming process, creating everything from voluptuous island bench bases and sweeping rangehood covers to cupboard doors that wrap around corners. Laminate can also be cut into two-dimensional shapes to make patterns and shapes, adding decorative design features to cabinetry.
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1 & 5) The Fantales Kitchen by YSG Studio.
Design: YSG Studio
Photography: Derek Swalwell
Creative Direction: Ortolan
Styling: Natalie James
Base, overhead cabinetry and custom handles: Laminex Burnt Ochre.
Benchtop and curved splashback: Laminex Moroccan Clay.
Tower cabinetry: Laminex Danish Walnut Chalk finish, Laminex Moroccan Clay and Laminex Fresh Spring.
2) Natural Kitchen for Laminex.
Cabinetry: Laminex Hushed Pine.
Benchtop and splashback: Manhattan Concrete.
3) The Fantales Living Area by YSG Studio.
Design: YSG Studio
Photography: Derek Swalwell
Creative Direction: Ortolan
Styling: Natalie James
Coffee tables: Laminex Kalamata and Tasmanian oak veneer.
Joinery: Laminex Danish Walnut Chalk finish, Laminex Milkwood and Laminex Pillarbox.
4 & 6) The Expansive Kitchen by Kennedy Nolan.
Design: Kennedy Nolan.
Photography: Derek Swalwell
Creative Direction: Ortolan
Styling: Natalie James
Rear benchtop and curved splashback: Laminex French Cream.
Island benchtop: Laminex French Cream and Laminex Paper Bark.