Kitchen cabinets and cabinet hardware for your new custom kitchen remodel renovation may be the first thing visitors notice. Beautiful kitchen cabinets could pull the entire theme of your kitchen together. Other options for kitchen cabinets include cabinet hardware such as knobs and hinges, and different kitchen cabinet shapes and sizes. Kitchen cabinets can come in a variety of woods and wood grains such as Oak, Maple, Cherry and Walnut.
Types of Wood for Custom Kitchen Cabinets
Choosing the type of wood for your custom kitchen cabinets for your kitchen remodel is a very important choice to make. Some of the most popular choices of wood for kitchen cabinets include natural oak, maple, cherry and walnut. The aspects of each could make a difference enhancing the theme of your kitchen remodel.
Natural Oak Wood
Finished natural oak is very durable and one of the most popular types of wood used for kitchen cabinets. Natural oak is a strong, open-grained hardwood ranging in color from near-white to salmon-pink. Oak has a coarse texture and is mainly straight-grained with dramatic variations in color, grain pattern and knots. Oak cabinets have a natural feel and rich look with characteristics such as knots, flecks, mineral deposits and even streaks of green, black and gold.
Maple Wood
Maple is the second most popular wood for custom kitchen cabinets. Maple is one of the hardest woods with natural characteristics such as grey mineral streaks and variations in color and wood grain patterns. Maple is generally responsive to light and the color tends to become lighter over time. Maple wood’s surface appearance of contains soft, flowing grains, and different patterns from variations in density. Maple takes polish very well and is close-grained and very well fitting with enamel finishes and brown tones.
Cherry Wood
Cherry wood is luxurious and rather hard with a grain more subtle than other hardwoods. Cherry has a smooth texture and satiny feel and has a fine grain. They offer a lustrous appearance which seems to glow, ranging in a color from rich red to reddish brown with small knots and pin holes. Cherry wood is usually finished in medium or dark to bring out its natural mahogany-red tones. Cherry defines more formal and traditional styles of custom kitchen cabinets.
Walnut Wood
Walnut is well known for having a dark color and being very heavy and strong, although easily split and worked with. Walnut wood’s strength, stability and beauty make it a great choice for kitchen cabinets and flooring. Historically, walnut wood has been used for furniture, flooring, gunstocks and cabinetry in general.
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