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Barker cabinets is formaldehyde free plywood. City Cabinets is Carb 2. I am personally allergic to formaldehyde, so I ensure our sourcing low VOC as I have to work around the dust on a daily basis.
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Sure, you have a few options for hiding some electrical components behind a drawer. I personally prefer to simply order the desk spreader at say 15″ rather than 23″ in DEPTH. This gives you some room to mount items behind the cabinet with access from underneath. See attached for some options.
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Pictures of walnut with a clear coat versus a chestnut stain will look almost identical. The stain color is very similar to natural walnut, so it doesn’t significantly change the appearance—aside from slightly evening out the color variations between different walnut slices used in the door frame and panels. See [attached image] for a side-by-side comparison of walnut with the three coats we offer.
Regarding pictures of past projects, the chestnut stain is relatively new, having been added within the last few months. Personally, I prefer the chestnut stain because it doesn’t have the red undertones of our Tamarack stain. It also minimizes color variation for a more consistent look.
If you’d like to see a full door finished with the chestnut stain, you can order a single test door at barkerdoor.com. Another option is to order a custom sample door from Barker Cabinets here:
https://www.barkercabinets.com/Door-Samples-s/208.htm
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Our paint is a conversion varnish (solvent based) finish that is not available to the general public. It is an industrial finish that must be sprayed using ventilators in a heated spray booth environment.
To get a close match to our product, your best option will be to take one of our painted doors to the local paint store. Have them match to this sample for color and sheen. We use a stain sheen, but they will want to verify with their own product/formula. They will then mix up a batch of latex or water based paint and primer that you can use on other areas of your cabinet project.
If you don’t want to have to paint on site, we do sell the adjustable shelves by themselves here in an exposed/painted material:
https://www.barkercabinets.com/Replacement-cabinet-REAL-WOOD-adjustable-shelf-p/woodadjshelf.htm
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Currently, we can offer only the tamarack and the chestnut stains. Custom staining would not be something we could offer, but most customers needing something custom will simply order their cabinets raw and apply a stain on site.
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All sample sold on City Cabinets are in stock and ready to ship out. Shipping is express 2day by default, so expect about 2-3 days for samples to arrive on your doorstep.
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Both would be about the same in regards to slight joint cracking over time. The alder might be a bit more flexible, so it could hold up slightly better.
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Sure, see here:
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The mitered version was replaced with the butt joint version at the link below.
https://www.barkercabinets.com/Base-Finished-End-Panel-SLAB-WIDE-STILE-p/bfewide.htmWe can modify the depth to whatever you need. Simply order it at 41″, then request that the depth be changed to 41.25″ in the order notes at checkout (credit card screen). We will make the change manually before production starts. Just do not forget the order notes.
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Alright, I just added the first 1.5″ thick plywood exposed interior cabinet! You can check out the wall version here:
Wall Exposed Thick Cabinet: https://www.citycabinets.com/product-p/wexposedthick.htmI’ll be adding the base and tall versions in a few days along with possibly another product that allow syou to order the 1.5″ thick plywood with banded edges at custom sizes. This will allow you to build virtually anything you want.
Upgrade: You can now order it in a depth that mimics the finished end panels. This means you can select a depth that extends 5/8″ or 13/16″ beyond a whole number. This allows you to place a 12 13/16″ deep thick exposed cabinet next to a 12″ deep regular wall cabinet with a door, ensuring that the face of the exposed cabinet aligns almost flush with the door of the adjacent cabinet.
This creates a super tight reveal, making the entire cabinet line look perfectly flush for an ultra high-end design.
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Alright, I just added the first 1.5″ thick plywood exposed interior cabinet! You can check out the wall version here:
Wall Exposed Thick Cabinet: https://www.citycabinets.com/product-p/wexposedthick.htmI’ll be adding the base and tall versions in a few days.
Upgrade: You can now order it in a depth that mimics the finished end panels. This means you can select a depth that extends 5/8″ or 13/16″ beyond a whole number. This allows you to place a 12 13/16″ deep thick exposed cabinet next to a 12″ deep regular wall cabinet with a door, ensuring that the face of the exposed cabinet aligns almost flush with the door of the adjacent cabinet.
This creates a super tight reveal, making the entire cabinet line look perfectly flush for an ultra high-end design.
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Base 90 cabinets have a unique hinge design, utilizing a bi-fold door where the two panels connect in the middle. This specialized hinge, combined with the tight reveals in our cabinets, can sometimes result in very precise tolerances that may require door width adjustments to prevent rubbing. Both Barker and City use a tight 1/8″ reveal between doors, creating a seamless, high-end appearance. However, achieving this level of precision requires various adjustments to ensure perfect alignment.
This design results in an elegant finished product that is difficult to replicate with cheaper, more conservative cabinet brands. Most other brands increase their reveals to 1/4″ gaps or larger to eliminate the challenges of tight tolerances. By doing so, they often need to modify cabinet doors after installation. In contrast, we build everything from scratch and push the limits to achieve the flattest, tightest reveals possible. While this can create installation challenges, the end result is a flawless, high-end look.
Base 90 and Base 45 doors can be tricky to adjust and align smoothly in corner transitions. For your project, we are remaking the doors about 1/8″ narrower on each side of the 90-degree transition. This should resolve the issue and provide a bit more wiggle room for a perfect fit.
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Correct, we can build cabinet doors from any of the listed materials, including walnut and rift white oak. I’ve seen some customers order cabinets in walnut or white oak and then paint over them. While this is a bit of a waste for walnut—since it’s an expensive material and painting covers its natural beauty—it’s ultimately their choice.
Painting over white oak will result in a heavy grain showing through the paint. This was popular for a time, as it created an interesting effect, especially with white or red oak combined with a dark paint or stain.
To answer your question—yes, you can certainly mix and match different wood types with paint or stain. The PAINT GRADE wood types listed are simply our recommended options for painting. My preferred paint-grade wood is PAINT GRADE MAPLE. It’s the heaviest and hardest option, with an even and smooth grain pattern. It resists dents and dings, making it a great choice if you have kids who might be rough on the kitchen.
Alder is the most affordable material we offer. It’s good for painting but softer than maple, meaning it will dent and ding more easily. Otherwise, once painted, I can’t tell the difference between alder and maple unless I pick them up—maple is noticeably heavier.
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We can certainly supply the door and drawer fronts, but we are unable to route a notch on the rear of the doors. This customization would need to be done on-site, as we are simply not set up for it.
If you are refacing an older face-frame style cabinet, you may be able to retrofit a full overlay reface, as shown in this video. This method allows you to completely update the look of the cabinet by fully covering the old cabinets with modern doors, hinges, drawer boxes, and hardware.
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I don’t currently have any recent photos of a customer kitchen featuring the new Rift White Oak. We just started offering Rift White Oak around this time last year, so we are still waiting for customer-submitted kitchen photos. However, I have a few samples in the showroom that I will attach here. These showcase the tight and uniform grain patterns well.
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