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| WOOD SPECIES
The wood materials used in our cabinetry are natural and renewable natural resources. As a product of nature, each individual wood specie contains numerous grain patterns, color hues, and assorted natural characteristics. Due to the infinite variation in color and characteristics, it is impossible to include every conceivable example.
Two of the primary factors influencing the appearance of wood are color and grain patterns. Secondary characteristics such as burls, insect marks and stains have an effect on the wood's appearance. As a variable, the appearance of wood may change with different commercial groups, or a specific species, log or board. One of the greatest selling points of a particular wood specie is the natural variety inherent within that wood type.
Color variation within a particular specie is influenced by a multitude of factors including, but not limited to, available sunlight, temperature, soil types, minerals and the genetic composition of the wood. Genetics play a large part in color variation. Trees regenerating from root sprouts or stump sprouts contain the identical genetic material of the parent tree, while trees regenerating from seeds contain genetic variables from both parent trees. Additional color variations may be caused by naturally forming chemical extractives found in the cell walls of wood. These traceable deposits, along with other naturally occurring influences, contribute to additional color variations.
Influenced by many factors, grain variation within a particular wood specie includes, but is not limited to, climate changes, site conditions, tree size, growth rate, birds, insects, genetics, and even damage by fire.
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Knotty Alder
Knotty Alder is a medium density hardwood that features a color range of light brown with reddish or peach hues. Small and large split knots and open knots that very in size, shape, and color, that may be completely through the wood, are acceptable characteristics of Knotty Alder. Noticeable stain patina characteristics ranging in visibility from dark spots absorbing excessive stain to very light spots absorbing minimal stain may exist due to the Alder wood having soft and hard wood characteristics.
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Cherry
Cherry ranges in color from white to red to a deep, rich brown. Exposure to natural light in the home will cause the color of the wood to darken over time. The natural wood colors will deepen, turning the dark areas of the wood a darker, reddish brown while the lighter areas darken to shades of yellow and brown. These changes in the wood color are natural, and should be expected in any cherry cabinetry.
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Hickory
Hickory is a dense, heavy wood with both closed and open wood grain. The natural color of this wood has a wide range spanning from hues of white to chocolate brown. This wood has characteristic depressions, mineral streaks and random knots that are naturally occurring and add to the woods appeal.
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Maple
Maple is a close, uniform-grained hardwood that varies in color from white to cream to light brown. Maple may exhibit small areas that are reminiscent of birds eye, curly grain, and may contain random small black mineral streaks.
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Oak
Red Oak is a very strong, open-grained wood that ranges in color from salmon pink to white. It is sometimes streaked with green, yellow and black mineral deposits and may contain knots and wild grain veins that are naturally characteristic in the wood.
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Pine
Pine is a soft wood that ranges in color from vanilla to brown with a reddish hue, is light in weight, and contains sound ornamental knots that vary in size, shape and color. Pine will exhibit mineral streaks, curly grain and worm tracking. Pine may also darken with age or take on a yellowish/orange cast as it mellows over time.
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Quarter Sawn Oak
Quarter Sawn Oak gets its name from how the log was oriented when the lumber was sawn. Unique grain patterns are produced by quartering the log then cutting the quarter using the heart as the edge rather than the center. The distinguishing characteristics of the Quarter Sawn are the rays or flecks that appear in random patterns across the grain of the wood. These rays can give the appearance of tiger stripes.
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Select Alder
Select Alder is a medium density hardwood that features a color range of light brown with reddish or peach hues. Natural characteristics of Select Alder include small sound knots, modular rays, curly grain, pin holes, and mineral streaks. This fairly straight-grained hardwood has a uniform texture and is often chosen for its color stability.
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