Woods Available for Your Cabinet Doors

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Hardwood Innovations builds custom cabinet doors, wainscoting, paneled ends, and drawer fronts from all kinds of fine hardwoods. We always use the finest grade of kiln-dried lumber to provide you with the highest-quality cabinet door. Each cabinet door is made from five pieces, as raised or flat panels, that are built to your custom specifications. All cabinet doors or drawers can be custom-designed any way you want them.

We regularly use clear alder and knotty alder, maple, oak, clear pine, and knotty pine woods in our everyday cabinet door projects, but do very often have requests for some upper-end cabinetry using walnut, mahogany, and cherry woods.

The woods shown below are the standard woods used most often in our cabinet doors, but many more are always available upon request. For questions about the different kinds of wood used for cabinet doors, please contact us.

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Alder, Clear

Link pinkish brown. A very consistent color. Takes finishes well.
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Knotty Alder

Same as clear alder, but the knots give you a more southwestern or rustic look.
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Ash

White in color, open grain. Takes finishes well.
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Cherry

Pink to light pink in color. Finishes very well.
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Mahogany, African

Varies in color from light pink to reddish and tannish browns.
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Maple, Paint

Comes from the dark White Maples that are to dark to stain. Takes paint very well.
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Maple, Stain

A select grade of our white maples. Paints and stains well and has a tendency to blotch.
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Oak, Red

Appalachian red oak, a reddish-brown color. Open-grain hardwood, easy to finish.
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Oak, White

White to light tan with a tan to brown color. Finished very well.
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Oak, Rift-Sawn Red

A reddish-brown color. Tighter grain, easy to finish.
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Oak, Rift-Sawn White

White to light tan with a darker brown grain. Finishes well.
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Hickory / Pecan

White cream-colored sapwood with a light tan to dark brown heartwood. Finished well.
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Knotty Pine

Same as clear but with tight knots that give you an early American look.
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Pine, Clear

White to cream to yellowish-white in color. Can use a clear or stained finish.
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Walnut

Varies from light brown to almost black in color. Takes finish well.
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Cypress

Lightweight and extremely durable. Takes stains well.
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¼ - Sawn White Oak

¼ - sawn white oak will have a straight grain pattern with flakes running with the grain.