Walnut wood, which has a moderate natural glow, can sometimes have grey, purple, or reddish casts, but its main color is light brown to dark brown with some darker brown streaks, enlivening as it gets older. This makes for unique color ranges and high contrasts in colors. Although walnut wood glues, stains, and finishes well, is usually stained because its …
Rustic Maple Bathrooms
Rustic maple has the same qualities as regular maple. The only difference is that its color is inconsistent. Different parts of a board can be light brown, while other parts of the board can be a creamy white color. This means that rustic maple has more character in it than regular maple.
Rustic Hickory Bathrooms
Rustic hickory, coming from the outer edge of hickory trees, is like regular hickory, however, it is more dramatic, meaning it has more knots, burls, extreme grain patterns, color ranges, and streaks of color. Glaze can enhance the characteristics of rustic hickory. When it is put on the wood, it settles into the knots and brings out the the grain. …
Rustic Alder Bathrooms
Rustic alder has most of the same qualities as regular, or clear, alder, but it has different ranges in color and more character. It ranges from a pale red to a reddish brown. Heartwood, streaks, pin holes, and open knots give this type of alder more character than clear alder.
Quartersawn Oak Bathrooms
Quartersawn oak has some of the same qualities as regular oak, but it adds a few things. When oak is quartersawn cut, it exposes beautiful internal rays and flecks. These extra aspects, when made from certain types of oak, such as red and white oak, create almost a three dimensional look, making furniture pieces and cabinetry appear very dramatic. Quartersawn …
Painted Bathroom Cabinets
Maple can look creamy white to pale reddish brown, and it always has a silky shine to it. Smooth, it has a fine texture with an even grain. Hard maple can have curly or quilted patterns in the grain, but maple sapwood is the type of maple that is used in most furniture made out of the maple tree. Overall, …
Oak Bathrooms
Oak wood can be white, yellow, or reddish brown. Sometimes it has green, yellow, or black mineral deposits streaked throughout it. Oak has a rough texture with a straight, open grain. Flake figures, pin stripes, fine lines, wavy grains, and watery figures are patterns that can be produced from the way the wood is sawn, either flat or quarter sawn. …
Maple Bathrooms
Maple can look creamy white to pale reddish brown, and it always has a silky shine to it. Smooth, it has a fine texture with an even grain. Hard maple can have curly or quilted patterns in the grain, but maple sapwood is the type of maple that is used in most furniture made out of the maple tree. Overall, …
Mahogany Bathrooms
Mahogany wood is very similar to lyptus except that it has even straighter grain lines and the wood has a little more of a red tint to it.
Hickory Heart Bathrooms
Hickory Heart wood comes from the center of Eastern American trees. It is just as durable as hickory and rustic hickory wood, but it is more consistent in color and has no knots.
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