MDF kitchen cabinets

I cannot answer your question posed in the second to the last line.

I will, however, affirm the logic of your reasons to go with the MDF, and add this one: Nothing’s easier in the realm of remodel than adding new doors and drawer fronts to a kitchen. Worst case, if they fail, your next step is obvious and pretty simple.

Kindly,

Lee

-- "...in his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms." --Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

Danny Proulx was an advocate of MDF in kitchen cabinetry.

I suggest you acquire 1 or 2 or his books.

Loren, I had forgotten all about Danny Proulx. Thanks for bringing up his name and memory. I was reading him in the trades long before computers were ubiquitous.

He had such a great common sense approach to things, a world of experience, and an Everyman tone to his communication. You’d want him as a neighbor.

I will spend time this day thinking about him.

Kindly,

Lee

-- "...in his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms." --Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

I can’t say much on this topic other than the fact that I built a kitchen cabinet door out of MDF to blend in with the existing kitchen. All the cabinets were painted, so the species of wood didn’t matter much. The MDF has held up so far pretty well and you can’t tell the different between it and the other doors.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

MDF is a big mush of wood fibres and tons of glue. The glue will off gas for years. Hard to say how toxic it is, but why risk it when beautiful wood is known to be non-toxic ?

-- Dwight - "Free legal advice available - contact Dewey, Cheetam & Howe""

should off gas through 4 layers of finish. and it may be $10K less than the same style wood alternative which i’ve only found at one cabinet supplier.