Teak Custom Cabinets Katy

When building custom cabinets there’s a lot of variety in the timbers that you can use such timbers include oak. Oak is quite a good hardware in timber so it’s often used for drawers. It won’t wear out with constant use of your custom cabinets. I often use cedar for the bottom of my drawers inside the custom cabinets. Cedar has quite a strong smell to it which actually repels insects. It also stop moths from eating your clothes supposedly. So encase you’re worried about that you might consider using that for your custom cabinets. Timber is constantly moving with changes in humidity. It’s like a sponge it will always absorb and give off moisture which is something you have to keep in mind while constructing custom cabinets. It tries to find the equilibrium with the environment that it’s in. If I was building custom cabinets outside for a back porch I would take this into account even more. As it gives off moisture it shrinks and as the custom cabinets takes on moisture it expands. The timber in the custom cabinets expands perpendicular to the grain as opposed to along the grains length. With veneer you can sort of lay pieces onto a groundwork in any direction you like and the groundwork of the custom cabinets will hold where they are. Whereas with solid work that the timber of the custom cabinets is going to be moving you can’t just glue bits together you have to make sure the grain is in the right direction. Having learned traditional custom cabinets techniques I like apply those to the job that the client gives me and it’s good to have a good idea of what the client wants when designing a drawing or sketch of the custom cabinets to them as far as what kind of style they want. A lot of the hard work and the quality of custom cabinets is inside the joints of the custom cabinets and I like to show those bits off so you can see how the custom cabinets are made. You don’t always want to do this depending on the client. But once I fully explain how I do so when it applies to them usually after they get a visual they are more open to the idea with their custom cabinets. One way I can do this generically is make little dovetails and miter on the inside of my custom cabinets.  This is a really good way of giving my custom cabinets some character. It overlaps on the corners but still looks good when he custom cabinets are finished. Refinishing kitchen cabinets is very difficult and usually an epic fail.

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