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Enhance Your Kitchen with the Best Kitchen Laminates

The kitchen is the most demanding room in the house — heat, water, oil and daily knocks all at once. The best kitchen laminates answer each surface differently. Here is how to enhance your kitchen the right way.

By Artis Laminates · Updated 2 July 2026

Match thickness to where the surface lives

A kitchen is not one surface but several, and the best result comes from spending where it shows. The visible faces and table tops are the kitchen's statement — that is where the premium 1mm Artis 1MM line earns its place, with deeper texture and imported designs you will not see in every kitchen.

For cabinet shutters and vertical panels, the lighter 0.8mm Woodrica and Artvio lines keep doors easy to hang and balance — the same durable sheet to the same standard, at a friendlier price. The classic kitchen does both: 1MM where the eye lands, 0.8mm on the shutters.

Pick palettes that suit a kitchen

Two design families carry a kitchen best: marble and stone looks, which give backsplashes and visible faces a premium, light-catching surface, and a deep run of solid colours for clean, contemporary cabinetry. Wood grains warm up an island or open-plan kitchen beautifully, and metallics make a striking modern accent.

Because these are HPL (sunmica), the surface resists heat, moisture, stains and scratches far better than untreated stone or paint — so the look you choose stays sharp through real cooking.

Finish for brightness or for hiding marks

A high-gloss finish makes a kitchen feel brighter and larger and gives colours real depth — lovely on upper cabinets and surfaces seen more than handled. A super matt or suede finish stays calm and hides fingerprints and the odd smudge on busy lower cabinets that get touched all day.

Many of the best kitchens combine the two: a gloss lift where it is admired, matte where it is worked. Whichever you pick, wipe with a soft damp cloth and avoid abrasive pads, and keep very hot vessels off any laminate surface for the longest life.

How to enhance your kitchen

Build the kitchen surface by surface: the premium 1mm Artis 1MM line on the backsplash and visible faces in a marble or solid look — the showpiece surfaces, where deeper texture and imported designs earn their keep — lighter 0.8mm Woodrica or Artvio shutters, and a finish chosen per surface: gloss for brightness where it is seen, matte or suede where it is handled. Every sheet meets the same IS:2046 standard, so this is a design decision, not a durability one. Browse marble and solid-colour designs to start, and pair shades with our kitchen colour-combination guide.

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Frequently asked questions

Put the premium 1mm Artis 1MM line where the kitchen shows — backsplash, the visible faces and table tops — for its deeper texture and imported designs, and the 0.8mm Woodrica or Artvio lines on cabinet shutters. Marble looks and solid colours suit a kitchen best. All are genuine HPL to IS:2046 Type S, so every surface resists heat, moisture, stains and scratches equally.

For the counter itself most Indian kitchens use stone. Where laminate is chosen, both thicknesses meet the same IS:2046 Type S standard, so durability is not the reason to pick one. The 1mm Artis 1MM line carries deeper, richer texture that shows best on the kitchen's visible faces and on table tops; pair it with 0.8mm Woodrica or Artvio on the shutters, where lightness helps the doors hang true.

It depends on the surface. A high-gloss finish brightens a kitchen and suits upper cabinets seen more than handled; a super matt or suede finish hides fingerprints on busy lower cabinets touched all day. The best kitchens often use a gloss lift against matte elsewhere. Avoid abrasive pads on either to keep the finish.

Wipe spills immediately, clean with a soft damp cloth and a mild cleaning agent, and never use abrasive scrubbers, which can dull the surface. Keep very hot vessels off any laminate and seal cut edges well against water. With that simple care, an Artis kitchen surface stays sharp for years.