I refinished a kitchen today and yesterday. I built this kitchen ten years ago, back when I only wanted to use shellac flakes dissolved in denatured alcohol as a finish. No fumes for me, no polyurethane or penetrating oil please. I was so anti-toxic finish, yet I used plastic laminated MDF as the carcass material. I never used MDF again after this project. Not only was it extremely toxic when cut but it was fucking heavy. I remember getting our boys and a couple of their friends to help lift the cabinets into the truck and then into the house.
This was one of my first kitchens, I bought the maple at Almquist Lumber. They had a fresh shipment of locally milled (local to Humboldt) maple limbs cut into one inch boards. The wood was full of interesting qualities. There was spalt, fiddle back, live edges, quilting and more. I had fun resawing the wood and matching the book-matched grain. There is so much character in every one of the panels, I was a joy seeing them today after a decade.
Check out my flickr site if you are interested in how I refinished these cabinets.
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