Clay Pink Matt Lacquer Kitchen — The Blush That Still Reads as Joinery — FAME kitchen cabinet manufacturer
New 2026 · Finish Cycle II · Clay Pink · Handleless Slab

Clay Pink Matt Lacquer Kitchen — The Blush That Still Reads as Joinery

Pink cabinetry fails for one of two reasons, and neither is the colour itself. It fails when the pink is a pastel, because a pastel in a kitchen turns sweet the moment a worktop goes on it. And it fails when the pink is clean, because a clean pink catches every variation in daylight and starts to read peach by four in the afternoon. Clay pink is the answer to both: red and yellow held back, a measured amount of grey and umber pushed into the mix, so the surface reads as a dusty blush at noon and as a warm neutral by lamplight. It is the one colour in our second finish cycle that no other programme in the range covers, and it is the colour UK buyers have been sampling since blush kitchens moved out of the design press and into retail. This programme is that clay pink sprayed at 4 to 6 gloss units on 19mm handleless slabs with a 3mm shadow gap and a brushed brass J-profile, on the standard FAME carcass — 18mm E1 board, 32mm system drilling, soft-close throughout, widths from 300 to 1000mm on a 50mm grid.

  • Muted clay-pink super-matt lacquer at 4 to 6 gloss units measured at 60 degrees — grey and umber held in the pigment so the face stays a dusty blush in daylight instead of drifting peach or turning pastel under a warm lamp
  • 19mm flat slab doors and drawer fronts, sprayed and cured in a heated booth rather than foiled, so the face is one continuous film with no edge band and no seam line under raking light
  • Handleless as standard: a consistent 3mm shadow gap between fronts with a recessed aluminium J-profile in brushed brass under the worktop and above the base run, or push-to-open with no profile on the upper run
  • 18mm E1 board carcass with sealed edges, glued and dowelled corners, 8mm back panel and 32mm system drilling on every side panel — the same carcass as our foil, veneer and shaker programmes, so a mixed kitchen quotes as one order
  • Modular widths from 300 to 1000mm on a 50mm grid across base, wall, tall and drawer units, with end panels, plinth and filler panels sprayed in the same clay batch
  • Base units 720mm high and 560mm deep, wall units 720mm high and 350mm deep, tall units 2010 to 2280mm, on a 100mm recessed plinth set back 60mm so the run reads as a floating mass rather than a box on the floor
  • 20mm white quartz worktop with a 20mm upstand, cut for sink, hob and tap to your set-out before crating; a cool white with a fine grey fleck is the recommended pair because a warm beige top pulls the pink toward peach at 400mm
  • Soft-close clip-on hinges with three-way adjustment and soft-close full-extension runners as standard, with Blum hinges and Blum TandemBox runners available as an option on identical drilling
  • Sprayed rather than foiled fronts, which is what allows a touch-up: the batch code is recorded on the packing list and a 250ml matched lacquer pot ships with every 20-piece run
  • Clay pink is a demanding colour on a large face, so the specification includes a 200 x 300mm sprayed approval panel for sign-off before the run, plus a matched-panel care card in the carton rather than a promise that the surface will not mark
  • Height-adjustable wall-unit hangers and cover caps sprayed in the same clay pink, so no white plastic plug shows on a tinted front after installation
  • MOQ 20 pcs per model, produced in our 20,000 m² factory, ISO9001, CE and SGS certified, 17 years in cabinet manufacturing
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Specifications

Programme scopeBase, wall, tall and drawer units as one coordinated finish programme; end panels, plinth, filler panels and cover caps sprayed in the same clay batch and recorded under one batch code
Construction18mm E1 board carcass, sealed edges, glued and dowelled corners, 8mm back panel and 32mm system drilling on every side panel; adjustable shelves on 32mm pitch; wall units on height-adjustable hangers
Doors and fronts19mm flat slab door and drawer front, 22mm on tall and appliance-tower fronts for rigidity; sprayed and cured in a heated booth, one continuous film with no edge band; 3mm shadow-gap reveal on every joint, no frames and no visible hinges when closed
Surface and finishClay-pink super-matt lacquer at 4 to 6 gloss units at 60 degrees, two coats over a matched grey-tinted primer so the pigment stays dusty rather than sweet; smooth film with no printed grain, so there is no repeat pattern across a 6m run
Colour matchingClay pink is held as a spray reference and matched to a supplied panel or a RAL / NCS reference before the run; a 200 x 300mm sprayed approval panel is issued for sign-off, and a 250ml matched touch-up pot ships with every 20-piece order
Modular widths300 to 1000mm on a 50mm grid; standard heights 720mm base, 720 to 900mm wall, 2010 to 2280mm tall; 560mm base depth and 350mm wall depth as standard, 600mm deep base available for appliance housings
Worktop and splashback20mm white quartz with a 20mm upstand and a matching splashback panel; a cool white with a fine grey fleck is recommended over a warm beige stone; sink, hob and tap apertures machined to your set-out before crating; a 38mm laminated top is available for entry price points
Operation and handlesHandleless as standard on 3mm shadow gaps with a recessed aluminium J-profile in brushed brass, or push-open with a magnetic touch latch on the upper run; a 160mm or 200mm bar pull in brushed steel, brass or black is available on the same drilling
HardwareSoft-close clip-on hinges with three-way adjustment and soft-close full-extension runners as standard; Blum hinges and Blum TandemBox runners as an option on identical drilling; drawer boxes in 16mm board with a sealed base and a 25kg load rating
Plinth and finishing100mm recessed plinth, clip-on aluminium or sprayed board, set back 60mm; matching end panels and cornice; a 150mm plinth available for older floors that are not level
PackagingFlat-packed in 5-layer cartons with corner protection and foam-separated door faces, plus an interleaving film on sprayed faces; or shipped assembled on request for contract work; one packing list per set with every door marked face-out and the batch code printed on it
MOQ, lead time and compliance20 pcs per model, widths mixable inside the 20 while a custom colour or a non-standard stone needs 60 pieces; 20 to 35 days production after finish approval plus 28 to 35 days sea freight to Felixstowe or Southampton; ISO9001, CE, SGS, IP44 and FSA certifications, E1 low-emission board and low-VOC lacquer

In a Real Kitchen

Clay Pink Matt Lacquer Kitchen — The Blush That Still Reads as Joinery in a real kitchen setting

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Product FAQ

Does a pink kitchen date quickly?
A pastel one does; a muted clay does not — and the difference is measurable, not a matter of taste. A pastel carries high lightness and low grey, so it reads as a single sweet note and there is nowhere for it to sit comfortably once the worktop and the floor are in. A clay pink carries grey and umber in the mix, which drops its lightness and lets it behave like a neutral with a warm bias: it sits under oak, under pale stone, under brass and under black, which is exactly what a dated colour cannot do. What we will not claim is that any colour is timeless. If a programme is nervous, the honest structure is clay pink on the island and tall run only, with the main wall run in a warm off-white — we spray both from the same batch record, so the two never drift apart.
Why does the pink look different in the morning and the evening?
Because the pigment returns different light at different colour temperatures, and every warm colour does this. Under the 5000 to 6500K of a north window a clay pink loses its red and reads as a dusty neutral; under a 2700K lamp or low afternoon sun the red comes forward and the same panel reads warmer and slightly deeper. The control is in the grey, not the red: a mix with enough grey in it moves within a narrow band across the day, where a clean pink with no grey swings visibly. This is why a run of this colour ships with a sprayed approval panel and not a printed swatch — a swatch viewed on a screen tells you nothing about a 3.6m elevation at 4pm. Send us a photograph of the room with the light on and we will tell you plainly how the colour will read.
Is a pale matte front practical with children in the house?
It is, with one caveat that we would rather state than bury. At 4 to 6 gloss units the surface does not show fingerprints the way a gloss does, and a spray film repairs locally — a scuff on a slab is a spot repair with the matched pot that ships with the order, not a new door. What it will show is a felt-tip or a food splash at eye level on a pale tint, so a wipe down is part of the routine rather than an exception. Where the household is genuinely rough on cabinetry, the practical answer is clay pink on the wall run and a darker colour below the worktop, which is why our brushed brass J-profile works so well here — it gives a hard line between the pale upper and a deeper base.
How does the carcass compare with the foil or veneer programmes?
It is the same carcass: 18mm E1 board, 32mm system drilling, 8mm back panel, glued and dowelled corners, soft-close hardware as standard. Only the front changes, and that matters commercially — an importer can put a clay pink lacquer kitchen, a foil kitchen and an oak veneer kitchen into one container without three sets of drawings, because the base units, the plinth, the hangers and the worktop cutting programme are common. It also means the same installer, the same fitting instructions and the same spare-parts list apply across a mixed order.
How does a 20-piece order work across widths and colours?
Twenty pieces per model, and the 20 can mix 300 to 1000mm widths, base, wall, tall and drawer units, the two handle options and the three profile finishes, because the drilling and the spray programme are the same across the range. What needs its own run is a colour change — any RAL or NCS reference in a sprayed door is 60 pieces, with a 200 x 300mm sprayed approval panel signed off first — or a non-standard worktop thickness. Production runs 20 to 35 days after finish approval, plus 28 to 35 days by sea to Felixstowe or Southampton. We have been building cabinets since 2009 — 17 years — in a 20,000 m² factory in Jiangshan, Zhejiang, and we supply several of the world's ten largest building-material brands on the same lines.

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