Copper Chambers built ins! CHEAP!!

[combo52]

Knotty Pine Kitchen Cabinets

I do agree with Roger that I don't mind the orange look of old shellac and varnish, as my favorite color is also orange.

The real problem is pine is too soft for cabinets and floors even with today's better finishes. Having had several kitchens with natural finished wood cabinets I can say I would never want them again, I will take high quality laminate over high quality composite material any day for kitchen use.

 

[firedome]

soft pine does dent easily...

but when we call it "patina" that makes it OK! I'm going to need to do sanding & refinishing of son's pine kitchen, it does shows the effects of use since 1955.

I realize that I mis-spoke, it is shellac that was made ffrom beetle shells - duh! - it appears that both varnish and shellac will darken. We put knotty pine walls and ceilings in the kitchen and MBR of our camp in VT, and now wish we'd used varnish or shellac so that it WOULD darken some, it looks too light to me, but it didn't occur to use anything other than poly.

Am hoping to get the Chambers copper cooktop hooked up this spring, we need gas there because electric service is pretty unreliable. Once it went out for 3 days and all the neighbors were at our place in the mornings for coffee!

 

[sarahperdue]

Soft knotty pine...

Not all of the knotty pine was soft--at least not down here in timber country. I salvaged from a tornado house here in Tuscaloosa and have done some work on my grandparents house. That knotty pine sets my saw to smoking.

Sandy, that's interesting about nicotine and varnish.

Sarah