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title: "Enamel panel and trim service"
description: "La Cornue enamel panel and trim service: vitreous enamel is glass fused to steel and about fifty colors of it were available at order time."
url: "https://la-cornuemiami.support/services/enamel-panel-and-trim-service/"
date_modified: "2026-09-03"
Appliance type: "Cooktops and rangetops, Ovens, Range hoods, Ranges, Rangetops"
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# La Cornue enamel panel and trim service

### About enamel and trim on a made-to-order finish

About fifty enamel colors were available at order time, plus one-of-a-kind, and the trims run polished and brushed brass, brushed stainless, brushed nickel, polished chrome, polished and brushed copper, matte black and matte bronze — some of them clear-coated. That matters before anybody polishes anything. A chip is not cosmetic in this climate: enamel is glass fused to steel, and exposed steel a few miles from salt water rusts outwards from the day it happens. So the visit identifies the finish against the original order, stabilises what can be stabilized and quotes a catalog-color part where it cannot.

What this involves

Chips stabilized or the part ordered in the range's own color reference

Brass, copper, nickel and chrome trim treated by what they actually are

Clear-coated finishes identified before anything is polished

Find the finish reference

A color match on this make is a catalog reference from the original order, never a judgement by eye.

Identify the finish and the trim metal

Polished or brushed brass, copper, nickel, chrome, matte black or bronze — and whether it is clear-coated, because that decides what may touch it.

Assess the chip honestly

Low-heat area, stabilisable. On a drip tray or under a burner, it is a part in the original color.

Deal with what is under it

Exposed steel in a coastal kitchen rusts outwards from the chip. Stopping that is the point of the visit.

Restore the trim, not strip it

Tarnish comes off; lacquer does not go back on. Knowing which is which is the whole skill.

### Can a chip be made invisible?

Stabilized, yes; invisible, rarely, and we will say so. What matters is stopping the rust. In a low-heat area away from eye level a stabilized chip disappears into the range; on a visible face next to a burner the honest answer is a replacement part in the original color.

### My brass has gone dull.

That is often not damage. Polished brass on these ranges is frequently natural, non-coated metal that is meant to patina — La Cornue says so in its own literature — and a coastal kitchen speeds it up. The thing to establish before you take anything abrasive to it is whether yours is clear-coated, because removing lacquer is the mistake that cannot be undone.

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