Ash - is most famous for being the best wood for baseball bats and other sports equipment such as tennis racquets, hockey sticks, polo mallets, and playground structures.  The reasons for white ash being the most popular wood for these items is that it is tough and does not break under large amounts of strain. This wood can be bent into different shapes without losing its strength and is quite light. There are numerous other uses for white ash wood including church pews, bowling alley flooring, garden and porch furniture, and cabinets.


Beech - is whitish to reddish brown, straight-grained wood with small grey flecks and light mineral coloring and streaking.  Beech is a strong wood with a density that is similar to maple.

Rustic Beech - is the same as beech plus Rustic will include repaired knots of various sizes and heavy mineral coloring and streaking.


Birch - is a subtle contemporary and close-grained hardwood, whose colors go from cream to reddish-brown. Its texture is fine and even, and the grain is often straight but can also come in wavy or curly patterns, mirroring maple. With a smooth paintable surface, birch can be stained to resemble mahogany or walnut, but is typically at its best when left natural and sealed with a clear coating.

Cherry - has a fine to medium grain pattern, provide an elegant look that is suitable for contemporary or traditional styling. It is moderately hard and strong, and resists both warping and checking. While usually pinkish-brown in color, there are also shades of off-white, green, and even gray. An American classic, cherry darkens beautifully with age and contains occasional knots, which gives it a unique beauty.

  
Rustic Cherry - has the elegance and great grain pattern of cherry, but with deep, gnarled, dark, craggy, open, sometimes with holes all-the-way-through - knots. It's really a great look. The knots are not all over the place, but are spaced a good amount apart. With the knots, there is often exaggerated graining as well.


Hickory - is a dense, tough, course-textured wood with white sapwood and reddish-brown heartwood.  The color and graining patterns will have variations from black to brown in the heartwood to yellow in the sapwood.  Certain stains will amplify this effect.  The finished look of  a hickory kitchen is usually described as "Rustic", "Wild", or "Natural".

       
Hard Maple - is a heavy, straight-grained wood with a fine texture.  The sapwood is white and selected for its color. 


Mahogany - varies from yellowish, reddish, pinkish, or salmon colored when freshly cut, to a deep rich red, to reddish brown as the wood matures with age. Mahogany is fine to medium texture, with uniform to interlocking grain, ranging from straight to wavy or curly. Irregularities in the grain often produce highly attractive figures such as fiddleback or mottle. Mahogany polishes to a high luster, with excellent working and finishing characteristics. 


Red Oak - is a straight-grained hardwood with a course texture and pinkish-red hue.  The texture of the wood varies according tot he rate of growth.


Knotty Oak - exhibits the same characteristics as oak, with much more prominent and typically larger knots and mineral streaks.


White Oak - sapwood is light-colored and the heartwood is light to dark brown. White oak is mostly straight-grained with a medium to coarse texture, with longer rays than red oak. White oak therefore has more figure.


Quarter-Sawn Oak - displays dramatic medullar figure called flake or fleck, and you'll see this used in antiques, mission style furniture, and more.


Poplar - sapwood is creamy white and may be streaked, with the heartwood varying from pale yellowish brown to olive green. The green color in the heartwood will tend to darken on exposure to light and turn brown. The wood has a medium to fine texture and is straight-grained; has a comparatively uniform texture.


Walnut - sapwood of walnut is creamy white, while the heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate brown, occasionally with a purplish cast and darker streaks. The wood develops a rich patina that grows more lustrous with age. The wood is generally straight-grained, but sometimes with wavy or curly grain that produces an attractive and decorative figure.

We also offer a wide variety of stains, glazes or paints to attain the exact look you want for your cabinets.

We provide a large selection of accessories that will make your cabinets more convenient to use.  Please see our Convenience Items.