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Door Construction
Hi Chad, I’ve got some questions about the cabinet doors. In your video it says the doors use a Italian Laminate. I think that means the surface material, what do you use for the core? Is it plywood or something else? I cannot find detailed information on the construction page.
I also looked up in Barker Cabinets, there is a Slab PLywood option, does that mean plywood core with wood veneer? Can you apply the Italian Laminate from BarkerModern to BarkerCabinets doors? It seems all the shaker doors use solid wood frames, and the infill can also be solid wood, but how about slab doors, is there also solid wood options?
I’m working on our kitchen and I prefer modern, slick slabs, but I also want to try to keep the materials as natural as possible. I really want to use solid wood doors. What is my best option if I want to have a European look solid wood door?
Thanks,
Chai
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4 Replies
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On Barker Modern only can the Italian laminates doors be used. We cannot offer them on the Barker Cabinets line. The laminate doors are particle board core or MDF, depending on which laminate colors are selected.
For the slab plywood doors on Barker Cabinets, this is a real wood veneer over plywood core. Note that we launched the Modern line to offer a more consistent color and grain tone matching. The real wood veneers can vary between one sheet to another, so grain and color tone may be a bit different on the order. We recommend using the Modern line for slab faced cabinets for this reason.
We do not offer any solid wood slab doors. They tend to warp, bow and break apart when the solid wood slab gets too large. Plywood is a much better and much more stable substrate.
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Thanks for the explanation Chad.
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One more question Chad, if using the veneer on plywood slab option, I noticed there are some small discrepancies. Are the slab doors absolutely flat, or they have small reveals and taper profile along the edge, as the image showed when I select wood types?
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All slab plywood doors will have a square edge, essentially like the second picture you provided. The first picture you uploaded is simply a wood sample we made some time ago to showcase grain and color tones. We do not offer solid wood slab doors, as they are difficult to work with and prone to failure over time.
