Poplar Wood Kitchen Cabinets
I would use soft maple if i could do it over.
Poplar wood kitchen cabinets. Mitered and cope and stick poplar cabinet doors and paint grade poplar with mdf panel cabinet doors from taylorcraft cabinet door company. Soft maple mills a bit harder but easier to get a smooth painted finish. Our large selection of fully assembled kitchen cabinets includes unfinished oak unfinished poplar or on the pre finished side we have maple cabinets. Poplar hardwood lacking bold coloration or an exciting grain pattern has a pale olive yellow brown heartwood and sapwood is lighter off white or gray with greenish hues and doesn t often get the respect we feel it deserves.
What makes it popular is actually its versatility. Poplar the poor man s cherry. It is inexpensive because it is also the softest of the hardwoods. Poplar is a hard wood but a soft hard wood.
Poplar is the cheapest hardwood used in construction. Poplar wood is typically a white or creamy yellow hue though it can be brownish or appear with mineral streaks of various colors in it referred to as rainbow poplar although it is used more for utilitarian purposes it s more likely to be used for drawers than cabinet fronts or for match sticks than tables it does occasionally make an appearance in some artisan furniture. We use poplar mostly. I did on my kitchen cabinets.