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Have you ever been to an Indian village?

These people purchase goods and services with fish fillets and whale blubber.

Beautiful Ed

Wood is likely rustic hickory in a natural finish, some folks like that look.

Squidge;
Top of the morning to you, I hope wherever this finds you that it finds you well.

As mentioned I spent much of my working life in the cabinet, furniture and finish carpentry business so unless my old eyes deceive me that's indeed hickory.

In particular I headed up the finishing department of our shop which had 3 separate spray booths and a Cattinaire automatic finishing machine for applying the clear conversion varnish to the doors and finished ends. At one point we were going through a 205 liter drum of clear daily in that machine just as a reference point.

When it first started becoming a thing up here in the late '90's, we were just coming out of the "pearl, peach, whitewash" era and as you noted, some folks thought they wanted clear coat only on their cabinets.

The recurring issue we'd run into however was that those folks too often had grown up with vinyl photo finish fake wood furniture and sincerely believed all trees were the same color. Then when they'd get the kitchen and the color wasn't uniform enough for their liking, they'd demand we replace the doors or worse the finished ends on the cabinets. Because we used integral finished ends in our product, not plant on finished ends, that meant tearing the box apart.

It became nettlesome enough that I developed what I dubbed "natural" stain which the sales crew subsequently sold a lot of, but it gave the wood a bit of a tonal blend - which made for less warranty work for our finishing crews.

When we did a major reno 20 years back, we put in hickory because by then I'd been about oaked and mapled to death.

Here's a shot of why we used PBC melamine for the boxes where we can see that in the run of cabinets there is only a single 5/8" filler which is a testament to the framing crew for sure as well.



Oh and yes we had a male cat who lived up there.

Here's another shot where one can sort of see how the blending stain worked on hickory.



Now for sure we did our best as well to color match the wood going into the doors, but as our waste factor on most raw wood coming in was close to 25% - and that was all species we did so red oak, eastern maple, fir, hickory, black walnut, cherry, alder, beech and pine - we had to get creative in order to stay in business.

Anyways again just a few random thoughts from a former life.

All the best.

Dwayne

Whatever path you choose, you're going way over budget

Ended up going with the ready to assemble Home Depot stuff. It was 1/3 of the price of some quotes I received. Did a Home Depot butcher block counter top. New sink, stove, and dishwasher. Went together ok considering I did the work and I am better at other things.



Ended up being a huge project. Added two bedrooms and a 3/4 bath where the carport was. Turned out nice. Just wrapping it up.

The log walls are still log walls. Great view overlooking the ocean.

Looks good, nice place, ocean view is huge.

Turned out alright by appearances. 🤙


We have always built our’s and any needed for my rental properties.

3-4 nights in the garage, table saw, mrs slumlord has built a set herself plus vanities, coffee bar stations, etc.
we have His and Her table saws

I don't have the time/patience/skillset for that. Wish I did.

Charter guests will stay in it for 3 months. Then probably freeloading 24hr campfire members who happen to visit during bear/deer seasons. I swore off renters as they just are a pain. Be nice to able to house visiting buddies.

Nice

We own 20 rental houses and have remodeled most of them over the last ten years. All of our cabinets come from Cabinet Giant. These are RTA cabinets that we put together. They have all wood boxes, soft close doors and drawers and come in lots of styles and colors. They also deliver to your site. Very easy to assemble, everything is included all you need is a screwdriver.
You couldn't run fast enough to give me a truckload of Lowes or Home Depot cabinets. About three renters and those cabinets are falling apart.

He went with Home Depot!!!




Nothing wrong with that at all.





Except I read this whole thread from start to finish,
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Kitchen cabinets are pricey

Looks great Joel. Fishing isn't your only skill.

My Wife, and I made there white oak cupboards a few years back.