Kitchen Materials: Laminates
Laminates are man-made surfacing materials made of paper and resins laminated together at very high pressure. The resulting material is a thin, flat material that is hard, water proof and available in literally thousands of colors and textures. It is glued to a substrate, usually MDF, and can be worked in many shapes including bending […]
Read More..>>Kitchen Materials: Bamboo, A ‘Green’ Alternative
Bamboo, a form of grass, is now a mainstream material used for floors, counter tops and virtually anywhere else wood products might be used. It is a sustainable product that grows in one year and is easily renewed. With a very hard and close grain structure, bamboo is typically laminated when used as a building […]
Read More..>>Kitchen Materials: Wood
As a natural material wood offers endless variation. There are hardwoods like maple and oak and softwoods like pine and cedar. There are blond woods like ash and dark woods like walnut. Grain patterns and textures vary widely, determined not only by species but by how quickly the wood was grown and how it was […]
Read More..>>Kitchen Design: The Material World
In no other room do so many materials converge and no where else are they subjected to the same extremes of abuse as in the kitchen. The wide range of materials, both man-made and natural, found in even the most basic kitchen, means that you must make numerous decisions about those materials every step of […]
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