Social housing kitchen manufacturers began working with the explosion of bold, primary colour in kitchens at the time. Bespoke kitchen similarly high-gloss, once the reserve of the private retail market, began creeping into the social housing sector’s product ranges. Sliding doors the wood laminate technology has also become much more sophisticated, with foil-wrap doors now closely resembling real wooden surfaces. The trend of offering tenants a ‘retail experience’ was easily incorporated by manufacturers such as Rixonway Kitchens. Seo services rixonway, the only UK kitchen manufacturer working solely in affordable and social housing, has followed private design trends closely since the company was formed in 1978. Those familiar 15mm carcases remained, but a demand by tenants for the retail specification 18mm carcase meant that the social housing sector product range was increasing vastly. Colour coordination was becoming important in interior design as well, so manufacturers like Rixonway followed with matching doors and carcases.