Oak veneer doors in a kitchen
Can anyone give me a advice about how well oak veneer performs in a kitchen? I'm really keen to create a kitchen mixing painted black cabinets with oak veneer (true handleless doors/drawers - inspiration pic below though I realise they have handles/j-groove). But my kitchen designer keeps trying to steer me away from veneer towards "oak effect". He says this is because veneer doesn't perform well in the wet, greasy environment of a kitchen, but I just don't know whether it's because he makes more profit on the oak effect doors! I'm really not keen on materials that are pretending to be something else - have always had a pet hate of wood effect anything, so I don't want to go down that road. But equally don't want to spend thousands on a kitchen with doors whose veneer starts to peel off/stain/degrade or whatever.
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