Pine Kitchen from reclaimed pine flooring
Pine kitchen cabinets are usually destined for the dumpster on the numerous home renovation television series. The knot filled planks and wild flat grain patterns does not lend itself to modern sleek design taste. Old growth pine with a fine line grain pattern and few knots challenges this negative perception of a pine kitchen cabinet. The wood becomes a design feature instead of an eyesore.
Reclaimed pine from architectural salvage provided a Pine harvested from established forests (harvested ca. 1900) with tight grain (up to 20 growth rings per inch) needed for the modern design feature. The reddish caramel color surface is harder than the quick growing pine harvested currently. Being originally sourced as flooring, this reclaimed pine had few knots or other blemishes. On the downside, the 6 inches and 5 inches maximum width required multiple boards to be glued together to make the various door panels and drawer fronts. This premium wood’s finer grain pattern interweave created a natural flow between boards that minimized the noticeable transitions between the many narrow boards. Face framing for the 12 MM (~1/2 inch) plywood cabinet boxes used the same pine.
Pine Kitchen Specifications
- Overlay doors and drawers with flush panel solid pine
- Varathane Waterborne polyurethane top coat on pine surfaces
- Cabinet interiors painted
- Soft close BLUMOTION clip top hinges
- BLUM TANDEM soft close undermount drawer slides
- Dovetail drawer box construction
- Pull-out shelves in lower cabinets
Flush panels highlights horizontal matched grain panels. Horizontal grain orientation unifies the doors as a single visual unit that wraps the room instead of dividing the room into a series of “pillars” from a vertical grain orientation.
Horizontal grain orientation continues with the lower cabinets drawer fronts. The smaller drawer fronts are cut and assembled from a single board to ensure visual continuity. The larger drawer fronts adds a center panel cut from a single board.
A 62 inch wide floor to ceiling pantry features grain matched flat wood panel doors. Horizontal grain orientation scales the vertical visual size.