Best offers on bathroom and kitchen hickory cabinets. Prices: $200-$2,000.

What is hickory?
It comes from Butternut and Shagbark trees. The color shades range from white to dark brown. When stained, they clearly show texture and grain patterns. People initially built wagons, using hickory wood.

Why Hickory Cabinets?
Though hickory is not as popular as oak or maple, it is gaining popularity now because of its strength, beauty, resilience and grains. It is difficult to work with hickory owing to its toughness. It is not at all flexible and need working for a long time. Hence, many manufacturers do not prefer to use hickory.
However, owing to its strength, durability, light weight, and color combination, hickory is preferred among consumers. On staining and glazing the hickory kitchen cabinets, they look beautiful and last for a very long time.

Characteristics of hickory
As mentioned above, it is hardwood with a smooth and fine texture. There are beautiful grain patterns on it, which helps it to quickly absorb colors. The sapwood of hickory is white in color and very wide, while heartwood is dark red. As a result, you get a whole shade of colors staring from white to reddish to brown to dark brown. This gives the kitchen, a brilliant colourful look. This is the most attractive feature.
Owing to the density and toughness, carbide is used while cutting and working on it. This gives it a long lasting, dull cut. For a sharper cut, to give a good finish, carpenters have started using modern equipments for cutting.

Disadvantage
Hickory wood does not tolerate moisture. It is therefore more prone to decay and damage than other any other type of wood. This intolerance to moisture reduces the span of hickory cabinets as kitchen is a place where the moisture content and temperature varies from time to time.
Since hickory is very tough, it is difficult to cut and shape it. It is tedious and requires a lot of skill. Hence, it is not a very preferred choice among carpenters and manufacturers.

Brands
Italian hickory kitchen cabinets are always in demand owing to their precision techniques. Other brands in hickory kitchen cabinets are hickory sunset finish, hickory honey spiced finish, hickory muslin finish and hickory natural finish.