Finishes
Paint
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Painted Wood Doors
Bring color to life with the consistency and convenience of factory-finished painted doors. State-of-the art equipment ensures a flawless finish for stunning results and a ready-to-install door, every time.
Durable Flawless Finish
Our doors are painted in a controlled environment that reduces dust and dirt contaminants. They also go through flash- drying and cooling cycles to provide greater durability than field-painted doors.
Consistent Reliable Results
Our doors are painted during the manufacturing process with our state-of-the-art spray system which helps ensure a consistent color, texture, and coating for uniform results you just can’t get in the field.
Time-Saving Convenience
Skip the added time and costs that come with finishing doors in the field and keep your project moving with factory-finished doors that come ready to install.
Repeatable Color Matching
With color-matching abilities, our factory finish options give you access to enhanced design options.
Laminates
Patterns
Recent advances in manufacturing have enhanced HPDL sheets’ decorative options, expanding commercial applications.
HPDL doors offer repeatability and consistency of aesthetics, and can easily coordinate with furniture, cabinetry, and flooring for cohesive design schemes.
HPDL offers realistic wood-grain, metallic, high-gloss, and writable surface options for versatile aesthetics.
Diverse finish options cater to differing design requirements and will be discussed in detail later.
Thickness
Architects and designers must verify laminate thickness for door suitability.
General Purpose Grade (0.05″) is standard thickness.
Some HPDL manufacturers provide Horizontal Grade laminates, a thinner option but still door-appropriate.
Vertical Grade laminates are significantly thinner and typically not suitable for door applications.
Check manufacturer’s technical specs for sheet thickness and corresponding grade or product type.
Features
Wide range of HPDL door finishes available to meet different visual requirements.
Essential to ensure desired finish works on door applications and to check manufacturer’s technical specifications.
Finishes, terminology, and categorization vary across manufacturers, but some general categories and types of finishes are common across many product ranges.
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All featured colors are available on both Aspiro® and Cendura® Series doors. Choose from thousands of additional samples directly on the Formica and WilsonArts websites.
Stains
Discover our classic shades in the original color collection, which includes all current stain options. We're introducing a new stain offering—preview the upcoming Standard and Standard+ colors by using the filter. Stay tuned for the official launch announcement!
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Color Variations
Color and grain variations are a natural and expected characteristic of wood. Soil content, weather, and other environmental factors play a role in wood’s appearance and color, even among the same species.
Talk to your rep if you have specific requirements for color consistency.
Structural Differences
Natural veneer may feature a light and dark pattern due to heartwood and sapwood. Heartwood is much harder, more dense and typically darker than sapwood, which is usually lighter in color. These two absorb stain differently which may accentuate their differences.
Distinctive Characteristics
Wood veneer’s natural origin is what makes it so unique, desirable, and also challenging to specify. Different species and individual trees exhibit distinctive characteristics. Mineral streaks, worm tracks, and figure, to name a few, are acceptable at some level according to WDMA. These naturally occurring variations provide richness and variety to each project design.
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Plain Sliced
A preferred cut for architectural doors for its straight grain patterns and greater consistency overall. (Also called flat cut.)
Rotary Cut
Creates wide sheets in a wide variety of patterns. The grain pattern is naturally inconsistent, making leaves more difficult to match.
Quarter Cut
Features a narrow striped pattern with a tight vertical grain and no arches or cathedral patterns. This cut may include rough patches (or “flake”) which is a natural characteristic and not a defect.
Rift Cut
Available only in Oak species, rift cut veneers feature a narrow striped pattern similar to quarter cut, with less of the “flake” effect.
ColorVariations
There is often significant color variation in wood veneer. This variation occurs due to several factors including:
To reduce color variation in wood veneer, consider these options:
Careful selection of species, cut, and finishing, combined with close collaboration with your supplier, can significantly reduce color variation. For more information, contact your representative.
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Stained Wood Doors
With a natural wood grain, Forte™ stained wood veneer doors deliver durability, sustainability, safety, and acoustic benefits with a sophisticated aesthetic. Ideal for professional environments, our factory-finished doors elevate spaces while enhancing occupants’ comfort and privacy.
A Flawless Finish
Perfect for projects that require high-quality performance and superior appearance, our factory-finished wood veneer doors offer unmatched consistency and customization.
Beautiful Surfaces
Non-solvent-based stains, sealants, and topcoats bring out the wood veneer’s natural grain while providing a superior appearance, burnish, texture, and endurance.
Consistent Reliable Results
Create a uniform texture, color, and sheen with the consistency and convenience of factory-finished stained wood doors. Get a flawless finish and stunning results and a ready-to-install door, every time.
Meets or Exceeds Standards
Our stained wood doors are factory finished with a UV-cured topcoat and sealant that meets or exceeds WDMA TR-8/AWS System 9 standards for flush wood doors.
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Training
Explore our wood veneer training opportunities to deepen your knowledge. We offer a range of Wood Veneer educational courses such as:
Wood Veneers 101: An In-Depth Introduction to Wood Veneer Cutting, Matching, and Assembly Methods for Doors.
Wood Veneers 102: An In-Depth Look at Wood Veneer Door Grades, Species, and Specialty Options.
Visit our training resources to learn more.