Wardrobes have become more than just simply a store-all they have now become a statement piece reflective of your style and the aesthetic of your bedroom. One of the best and most modern ways to actually elevate your wardrobe design is using mixed laminate finishes. An effective mix of textures, patterns, and colour in wardrobe laminate gives the ability to create an interesting and bold appearance without sacrificing functionality.
Whether your style is sleek and modern, or rustic and warm, there is always an opportunity to play around with different laminate finish styles to add even more customization to your space, while still taking advantage of their durability and easy clean-ability.
What Does Mixing Laminates Mean?
Mixing laminates refers to the visual interest and depth you can create by layering wardrobes, or the surfaces of your wardrobe, with the contrast of textures and colours. It’s the difference between a one-tone flat surface wardrobe and a varied wardrobe laminate with textures available by way of gloss and matte, woodgrain and solid, texture and smooth.
Mixing laminate designs can provide a number of benefits, including:
- Custom Aesthetic: Custom wardrobe looks as tangential and complementing to your interior theme.
- Visual Depth: Visual layering and personality vs. contributing bulk with accessories.
- Functional Zones: Use different types of laminate finish to indicate sliding doors, drawer units, and open shelving.
Top Wardrobe Design Ideas Using Mixed Laminates
Below are some chic and stylish ideas to mix wardrobe laminate combinations for your interiors:
1. Matte & Gloss Finishes
Combining matte and high-gloss laminate finishes will give your wardrobe design a hint of luxury. Matte laminates can be in neutral tones such as beige or dove grey and you can highlight certain panels, such as key features with a high-gloss laminate in white or black. This will not only offer relief and visual interest but the process of adding a light-reflective surface is particularly useful for more compact rooms.
2. Solid & Woodgrain Combination
Finishing with solid woodgrain wardrobe laminate and solid contrasting colours such as forest green, navy blue or charcoal, creates a natural, yet bold look. One option could be to use woodgrain on some of the larger panels and highlight with your bold, same colour matches in the drawer units or sliding doors.
3. Two-Tone Vertical Split
Another popular choice of wardrobes is to split the door vertically, so that each half is finished differently. This means you can mix up textures too; a textured laminate finish such as walnut wood on one side and maybe a muted suede texture to contrast. Layering provides an attractive, modern and sophisticated touch to any bedroom — and these laminated finishes lend themselves to layering beautifully.
4. Panel Geometric / Asymmetrical Shapes
Work with a variety of wardrobe laminate shapes, made up of a few different wardrobe laminate types. You can have three finishes perhaps in a textured light grey, a dark brown woodgrain, and a simple matte ivory to create a few geometric or even asymmetrical shapes across the wardrobe doors. With any of this wardrobe design, it is about adding extra personality by not disguising, but elevating the fun and contemporary free-form appearance of your storage while still being dignified.
5. Monochrome Same-Tone Layers
If you are more minimalistic but still want to play with the fun of mixing up your significant pieces, layering the same colour family together in subtle differences in laminate types can be successful too. For example, perhaps a gloss white will sit well with a suede white, and then contrast with a matte white to achieve a beautiful and balanced wardrobe design without over-staging your space.
How to Choose
When selecting which wardrobe laminate is right for your project, consider, for example:
- Room Size: Glossy finishes work well in small spaces which traditionally reflect light and give the appearance of ‘space’.
- Durability: Choose finishes based on use-frequency and exposure to wear.
- Royale Touche offers a lustrous collection of premium wardrobe laminate finishes in India — from glossy, matte, textured, suede, and high-pressure laminated finishes.
Final Thoughts
A mixed laminate finish wardrobe is just one example of how modern interiors are moving to being both stylish and functional with customizable elements. Whether you are designing a built-in wardrobe or free-standing wardrobe, there are endless ways in which mixing wardrobe laminate finishes can elevate your wardrobe design into a stunning focus. Whether the aesthetic nature of your project is to remain within a contemporary plain-nature fabric, your approach is only restricted by finding a balance in both aesthetics and functionality considering conditions such as likelihood of fade, pets, and design age.
We at Royale Touche wish you the best in achieving quality, durability, and modern design results by selecting the best laminate finishes to add to your next wardrobe design, the options truly are limitless.
