What are the best materials for kitchen cabinets?
Choosing the perfect material for any item is essential, especially when it’s something that you use every day.
Even if we are talking about tools, vehicles, clothes, or anything else, a bad choice of material can influence the usability negatively.
For example: can you imagine the uselessness of a rubber wrench?
Or maybe a car made of plastic instead of steel?
Sounds like nonsense, right?
Choosing the right material for your kitchen cabinets is just as important as in any other case – if not even more important.
Design is one thing, but if the cabinets are unable to withstand everyday wear and tear, humidity, or just the passing of time, you’ll have to think about changing or repairing them over and over again.
So, let’s see what the best materials for strong and durable kitchen cabinets are!
Why is it important to choose the right materials?
The kitchen is a special place in our households because of the intensive use and „extreme” circumstances.
If we boil water or fry in oil, the air is filled with steam, and even if we have a good kitchen extractor fan, it won’t be able to remove all the humidity.
So, where does all the water and oil go?
It condenses on the surface of the surrounding furniture due to the temperature difference.
And if the cabinet materials are not resistant enough, then
- the cabinet and its doors may start to deform and bend,
- and the metal parts like bolts and hinges may start to rust.
As time goes by, it will get more and more challenging to repair or replace them.
So, what’s the most used cabinet material?
Unless you don’t want your cabinets to be made of plastic (which is really impractical in so many ways), the cabinets need to be constructed from a wood material.
Or at least wood-based material, as pure wood can be quite expensive.
That’s why the most affordable and commonly used material for kitchen cabinets (and many other things) is furniture board.
Furniture board is made of small shredded pieces of wood and is compressed to boards using high pressure.
It’s stable and stiff enough to be a very good material, but it has a sensitive spot: moisture.
If the furniture board is not laminated correctly on its sides and edges, water finds its way inside and does its damage there.
The board will start to thicken, deform, and finally, to crack – and if this happens, there is no way back.
Are there other possibilities?
Of course, there are!
If you’d like a much more elegant and resistant material for your kitchen cabinets, the best answer is pure wood.
Yes, good old wood with thousands of different textures and densities from around the world; every single wood type has its own attributes.
It’s the more expensive way, we must admit, but a well-crafted hardwood cabinet will last longer than the wall behind it.
The most classic wooden materials for cabinets and other furniture are:
- pine,
- oak,
- beech,
- and maple.
Of course, if you’d like something really extravagant, there are many other options, like chestnut, mahogany, teak, etc…
If you’d like a solution with a moderate price, it’s not uncommon to mix and match wood, MDF and furniture board in the kitchen – it only depends on your taste and budget.
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