Why You Should Incorporate Panel-Ready Appliances Into Your Kitchen

A built-in refrigerator with custom wood panels in a matching kitchen.

Whether designing a kitchen from scratch or remodeling, appliances are often the most careful decision homeowners can make.

While the features of each appliance help guide the search, it is also important to consider how the appliances will integrate into the overall look and feel of a kitchen. Panel-ready appliances are designed to blend into cabinetry, making them an appealing choice for more and more households across the country.

For those considering adding panel-ready appliances to their own homes, ZLINE is offering insight into the benefits of incorporating this customizable appliance style into a kitchen space.

Seamless kitchen integration.

Panel-ready appliances allow refrigerators and dishwashers to seamlessly integrate into existing cabinetry. This helps give the space a more cohesive and less cluttered look and feel overall by avoiding mismatched appliances.

Although most people use panel-ready designs to “hide” their appliances, they can also be used to help them stand out and add more character to a kitchen space with mixed metals and colorways. ZLINE’s 24” Monument Dishwasher offers a variety of panel options ranging from stainless to white matte, which can give the kitchen a more vibrant pop of color, to hand-hammered, which offers a subtle rustic style.

ZLINE Touchstone Undercounter wine cooler and beverage refrigerator with custom wood panels and gold handles.

Flexibility.

Kitchen trends are constantly changing, but panel-ready appliances are a great way to ensure appliance styles can change as tastes do. For homeowners who may want to change their cabinets or countertops down the road, panel-ready appliances can easily be changed to match the new look and feel of the space – either with a new style or a new color scheme – without having to replace the entire machine.

Style without sacrifice.

Panel-ready options aren’t just about style. They offer sleek design options without sacrificing best-in-class features and functionality. ZLINE’s Built-in Refrigerators are equipped with an internal water and ice maker, adjustable freezer temperature, a rapid chill function, and are available as panel-ready.

ZLINE’s Tallac Dishwashers are panel-ready and feature eight different wash cycles, including a speed wash cycle at just 50 minutes. They can accommodate up to 16 place settings along with a third rack for utensils and cutlery.

With ZLINE luxury is not meant to be desired, its meant to be attainable.

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