Range Overview
The warm honey tones of this solid wood design create a light, spacious feel.
- Solid birch framed doors
- Tectops obsidian smooth granite effect worktops
- Birch wine rack
- Glass centre panels
- Lockable sttorage unit
- Janus handles
- Rangemaster Elan black range cooker
- Doors - Kitchen Direct’s Highgate Birch kitchen, in the Classic range, features modern styled, solid birch square framed doors rounded off with flat solid centre panels. The doors are tested by the Furniture Industry Research Association (F.I.R.A.) to satisfy Gold Award Standard.
- Cabinets - Highgate Birch fitted kitchen comes with an 18mm melamine faced, particleboard cabinet with 8mm particleboard backs completely sealed all round to avoid moisture penetration and finished in pear-wood effect only. All base carcasses are mounted on adjustable legs and come complete with adjustable shelves. The melamine faced particleboard used for Kitchen Direct’s carcasses and accessories conforms to the following British Standards:
- All wall units (340mm deep), likewise, have fully adjustable shelving, matching wall brackets, nickel-plated 100 degree hinges and nickel-plated shelf supports. Both wall and base carcasses have service void at the rear.
- Drawer boxes - The Tandem-box stainless steel sided drawer system utilises a 15mm MFC base and back which affords a strength and rigidity capable of carrying a 30kg load. Incorporating concealed, guided full extension runners, with Blumotion mechanism. This gives a perfect self-closing action, silent and effortless. This system has undergone rigorous trials involving 100,000 drawer movements!
- Worktops - Available in a range of colours, the hard wearing, high pressure laminate faced 39mm thickness worktops meet BS (British Standard) and are heat resistant to 180 degrees Celsius (does not apply to pans direct from hobs, cookers or ovens). This features a moisture seal below the front edge, which prevents ingress into the core board by surplus water that may run over the front edge of the worktop. Kitchens Direct offer a range of solid surface worktops, such as Tectops, which satisfy the FIRA Gold Award. Solid surface worktops are extremely durable but will still scratch or burn, solid surface worktops can be repaired. We offer a range of solid timber worktops, timber is of course a natural product which can be harmed if not regularly treated or subjected to prolonged exposure to water. Worktops are subject to a high degree of use within the kitchen area and must be treated with the utmost care. Please read the manufacturer's guidelines carefully as to the care and maintenance of the worktops.
- Cornice, pelmets & plinth - Our Highgate Birch kitchen comes with birch melamine wrapped cornice and pelmet in a modern angular style; the birch effect plinth is manufactured from 18mm birch effect melamine faced particleboard as standard.
- End gables - Highgate Birch kitchen has birch effect gables manufactured from 18mm melamine faced particleboard, although end support panels are an optional extra.
- Accessories - Highgate Birch kitchen has, as an optional extra, accessories manufactured from 18mm birch effect melamine faced particleboard such as shelving etc (some may have solid timber ancillary items) and are not included in the cabinet price for this particular kitchen range.
- Highgate Birch fitted kitchen features a combination of birch effect finished materials which, although they may vary slightly in colour, nonetheless fall within acceptable industry standards and are commensurate with this display kitchen.
- Items such as pilasters, tambours, stainless steel plinth, cargo units etc are all optional extras and are not included in the cabinet price for this particular kitchen range.
Glass centre panels
Lockable storage unit
Janus handles



