Materials
The choice is yours – if it works you can have it. I particularly like English hardwoods such as Oak and Ash, but often use Maple, Cherry (English and American), Elm, Sycamore, Mahogany and Teak. Pine seldom features. Door panels can be solid for the natural look, or veneered to improve stability and grain matching.
Veneers include all the above timbers plus just about anything else – Aspen, Lacewood, Macassar Ebony, Wenge, Rosewood, Walnut – plus decorative veneers such as Bird's-Eye Maple and Ripple Sycamore, and Burr Ash, Myrtle, Walnut and so forth. Latest combination – Mother-of-Pearl combined with American Black Walnut.
Carcases are typically veneered or melamine-faced MDF: zero-formaldehyde MDF is available too. We can also use ply for carcases but normally avoid solid timber, which tends to move around. Drawer boxes are solid timber or specially veneered ply.
We can also get just about anything made in other materials such as stainless steel, concrete, glass, Parapan – you name it.