The pieces on either side of my range are pine and the hutch to the left of the fridge. I don't remember the stain we used, but the are glazed also.

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Here is a link that might be useful: My Kitchen

that's exactly what I had in mind. I want it to have an aged look. How has the cabinetry held up? Are you in the US (I saw that the description said the cabs were made in GB).

I'd appreciate any of your input/advice! Thanks Allison!

We are outside of Birmingham - Alabama, not England! lol We built the house and moved in 30 months ago. I have no idea what wood he used for the interior of the cabinets, but both inside and out are fine. No problems. The island top is antique pine purchased locally and it does have new marks on it due to daily use.

Where are you located? The guys who did the finishing work, including custom trim on the kitchen and have made a few pieces for the house opened a shop. They can build whatever you want. Here is a link to their website with a few things listed- they are just getting started.

Good luck with your project.

Here is a link that might be useful: Highend Woodworks

It's really difficult to find cabinets in pine unless you go to a custom cabinet maker. Most commercially produced lines have shifted to hickory or rustic alder or rustic cherry for people who like the "knotty" look. Pine is soft, and many people who liked the look didn't exactly like how it wore, and manufacturers got complaints about it and sales dropped off. For every 1 person who likes the patina of dents and scratches that pine can accumulate, there are 300 that don't. And for every 1 kitchen sold in pine, there are probably 30,000 sold in something else. The type of person that prefers pine with all of it's beauties and faults is usually a bit more upscale and is willing to pay the price for a custom piece and actually wants the piece to patina as quickly as possible.

I'm thinking of using Ikea's 'Fagerland' pine doors. I have so much on my plate that I can't really think about ordering custom door fronts, but I'm not willing to live with white cabs [yes, I know everyone loves white cabs, so consider me the exception that proves the rule-- I loathe them] until I get around to it, either. Haven't run the numbers to see how much the cost difference would be, though.

I am going to have custom cabinets made on site and am just choosing to see what type of wood/finish I want. I do love the aged patina of old furniture! Another option is cypress (we're partial to that with both of us being from Louisiana).

Larice, I originally wanted pine cabinets, but no one here carried them. When I see pics of pine cabinets in magazines, I drool. I ended up going with natural cherry and I love my cabinets, but I will always pine for pine.

I have a lot of antique pine furniture (complete with "patina") and pecky cypress paneling throughout my house, so you'd feel right at home.

It just dawned on me reading through the new post, the sides and back of our cabinets are pine. It's all furniture grade - finished ends, could stand alone - so the interior is also pine. The roll-out drawers are made from something else though.

fwiw, our pine cabinets do not have any dings in them. They still look as good as the day we moved in.

We had wide plank T&G cypress wainscot in the bathrooms of our last home. Lots of worm holes. Beautiful wood. I talked to the guys at Highend Woodwork about building our exterior shutter (DH hasn't gotten around to them yet) and they said they use a lot of cypress on exterior project.

Allison, it sounds like you and I have similar tastes! It could also be that we're just 2 girls from the South! I know we're putting in cypress cabs in our outdoor kitchen as that we know the wood is the best for wet/marine locations. We've had a cypress kitchen when we lived in LA and loved it....just trying to do something a little different this time around (even though I find my style asthetic doesn't vary much!)

Thanks for all the input!

Jenny

Our 1936 original cabinets are pine, solid and plywood with crystal knobs. They were clearly once painted and are still painted a sort of Martha Stewart 1950s green on the inside. But at some point they were sent to be stripped (you can still see the pencil numbers) and are now a non-grain-matching natural varnished pine on the exterior. It looks very mid-century modern except for the glass knobs.

I would buy paint-grade pine cabs for my kitchen but even Kraftmaid has stopped making them.

I looked at pine cabinets as well, and the local cabinet maker is willing to make them; however, when he gave me samples of the stains, it was sort of blotchy on the pine. He suggested alder for a more even tone. Is this usual with pine?

Our floors are standard grade tongue-and-groove yellow pine finished by a company that specializes in pine floors, and the finish we chose is simply some red oak stain mixed with "natural," which looked best to us given the greenish cast from the low-E coating on our windows. They're somewhat redder than Allison's, with the finish ambering somewhat over that, but still redder than gold. We like them a lot. The finish is a bit "splotchy" because the wood is quick-grown and the very differentiated growth areas take the stain differently. Our old pine dresser my mother-in-law had custom made several decades ago has no unevenness whatsoever, but it's from better grade wood and a fine craftsman.

Our cabinetry does not many knots in the front. One end doesn't have but a few small ones, this one has more.

We used clear pine 2x's for all of our trim - doors, windows, base, crown. Even our doors are clear pine. The doors have more graining in them than the board trim. They are all stained dark (SW Walnut Wainscot). I almost went with wide plank pine floors, but a house nearby used them, stained dark and they were very grainy. Something I didn't want on the floors, so I went with 3 1/4" oak.

Pine can be blotchy, so can maple. A simple pre-stain treatment evens it out a great deal.

All this info is great! Thanks!

Allison, what granite did you use with the pine?

It's called Golden Leaf. I also used it in the Laundry room with cream/glazed cabinets.

Here is a link that might be useful: Golden Leaf