Guide

Best Kitchen Sunmica Designs: Colours, Looks and Combinations

'Sunmica' is just the everyday word for decorative laminate — and the best kitchen sunmica design is the one that suits how you cook, how much light you have and how the colours work together. Here are the looks that work.

By Artis Laminates · Updated 2 July 2026

The design families that suit a kitchen

Three palettes carry a kitchen best. Marble and stone looks give backsplashes and visible faces a premium, light-catching surface that lifts the whole room. Solid colours — soft whites, greys, deep blues and greens, warm neutrals — make clean, contemporary cabinetry and are the easiest to combine. Wood grains add warmth to an island or open-plan kitchen, and metallics make a sharp modern accent.

Because these are HPL (sunmica), the surface resists heat, moisture, stains and scratches — so the look you choose stays sharp through real cooking.

Winning colour combinations

The best kitchens rarely use one colour. A proven move is a darker base run of cabinets with lighter uppers, which grounds the room and keeps it feeling open. A marble-look backsplash and visible faces against solid-colour shutters reads premium without overwhelming. A warm wood grain on an island against calm solid surrounds adds a natural focal point.

Our kitchen colour-combination guide pairs shades that genuinely work together, so the kitchen feels designed rather than assembled from whatever was on the shelf.

Finish and thickness make the design work

A design only looks its best in the right finish. High gloss brightens a kitchen and deepens colour — lovely on uppers seen more than handled; super matt and suede stay calm and hide fingerprints on busy lower cabinets. Many of the best kitchens use a gloss lift against matte elsewhere.

Then decide where to spend: the premium 1mm Artis 1MM line where the kitchen shows — the visible faces and table tops, with deeper texture and imported designs — and the 0.8mm Woodrica and Artvio lines on shutters, the same durable sheet at a friendlier price. The design carries differently depending on where you put it.

Designing the best kitchen sunmica

Start from the palette that suits you — marble for premium light-catch, solid colours for clean contemporary lines, wood for warmth — then pick a combination rather than a single shade, choose the finish per surface (gloss where it is seen, matte where it is worked), and put each design on the right thickness. That is how a kitchen sunmica design goes from a swatch you like to a kitchen that looks designed and stays sharp for years. Browse marble and solid-colour designs to begin.

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Frequently asked questions

Marble and stone looks suit backsplashes and visible faces, while solid colours make clean, easy-to-combine cabinetry; wood grains add warmth and metallics a modern accent. Spend where it shows — the premium 1mm Artis 1MM line on the visible faces and table tops, 0.8mm Woodrica or Artvio on shutters — in a gloss or matte finish to suit. Browse the marble and solid-colour collections to start.

A darker base of cabinets with lighter uppers keeps a kitchen grounded yet open; a marble-look backsplash against solid-colour shutters reads premium; a warm wood island against calm solids adds a focal point. Our kitchen colour-combination guide pairs shades that work together so the room feels designed.

Yes — sunmica (decorative laminate) is the standard surface for Indian kitchen cabinets because it is hard-wearing, wipe-clean and comes in hundreds of designs. Every Artis sheet is a genuine HPL to IS:2046 Type S, so whichever line you choose, the surface resists heat, moisture, stains and scratches. The usual split: premium 1MM where the kitchen shows, 0.8mm on the shutters.

Both have a place. High gloss brightens the room and deepens colour on upper cabinets seen more than handled; super matt or suede hides fingerprints on busy lower cabinets touched all day. Many of the best kitchens combine a gloss lift with matte elsewhere. Avoid abrasive scrubbers on either to keep the finish.