April 16, 2012

Brand new Smartpack brochure 2012

Finally Smartpack has published the new 2012 brochure designed by young graphic designer Jarmaine Stojanovic. 24 pages full of beautiful pictures of kitchens,wardrobes, laundries, home offices and storage. There is a minimum of text but an innovative legend depicting our wide range of finishes and accessories. Click here to go to our download page for the new brochure.

While you are in our site go to the specials page to view the months special of custom polyurethane doors for the price of Gloss melamine.

October 15, 2011

Cabinet Doors Options made simple - Part 2

Sprayed doors
These doors go by a number of names such as two pack, polyurethane and lacquered doors. These doors are made from MDF (medium density fibreboard) and sprayed with a chemically cured paint similar to car paint.Polyurethane is a better option than an a acid catylised lacquer and is much more resilient to solvents once fully cured. The faces and edges of the door can have a routered pattern or just plain faced with pencil round edges. The paint finish can range in gloss levels from matt(10%) , satin (30%), semi gloss (60%) to high gloss (90%). The paint finish gives a very sleek modern appearance and shows no join seams on the edges. The paint is brittle but hard and can chip. The high gloss shows marks as does any highly polished surface. Semi gloss or satin finishes now more popular show less finger marks and are not so reflective. These doors are well suited to kitchen and bathroom installations. The price of a door 730mm x 450mm is between $85-150 per door depending on the routing and finish. The high gloss being at the more expensive end of the range. Smartpack offers a number of standard polyurethane doors click here

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May 30, 2011

Australian Embassy Refurbishment Project

Smartpack is very proud to share these pictures of the project we have nearly completed for the Australian government. The Australian Embassy in Tokyo has ungone a refurbishment as it is now about 20years old. Smartpack won the tender to supply all the joinery for the new fit out for the bathrooms cabinets, kitchens ,wardrobes and laundries. Well done the Australian government for supporting an Australian based manufacturing company.

Manufacturing was done In Sydney and shipped to Tokyo in flatpack format, with stone tops, to the embassy in Tokyo where the Japanese contractor Hazama company has very competently installed all the joinery. 30 of the 43 apartments have now been occupied. The Embassy staff and the Department of Foreign Affairs project manager have been extremely satisfied with the finish and quality of our work.

The apartment kitchens, laundries and bathroom cabinets are finished in White polyurethane satin finish and the wardrobes are in white melamine finish with painted sliding doors. The accessories were supplied by Smartpack but all appliances were sourced in Japan. We have included some shots for your perusal here of some of the typical rooms.

Kitchens