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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Painted cabinets have always been considered less desirable. Perhaps a beach house in the Hamptons could get away with white painted ones, but not many other places.

Just a note to think about. [/quote]

In the $1-2M price range it’s rare to see a home with wood stained cabinets. [/quote]

Yeah, but in higher end homes it's rare to find painted cabinets.

The reason is painted cabinets are "popular" in lower end builds now because that allows builders and cabinet sellers to get away with selling cheap pre-fab compressed wood pulp/etc. cabinets. Engineered boards with a cheap veneer.

Higher end cabinets use real wood and stained coated finishes or even higher end using hand rubbed oil finishes. [/quote]

Painted cabinets are just as common in higher-end homes as wood cabinets.

Regarding real wood vs veneer, most panels in cabinets are going to be some form of veneered engineered product - all except doors with raised panels, which are less common these days. This is for stability - real wood or even plywood will cup and bow over time unlike engineered products that are designed to maintain a flat surface. But all veneer allows for tighter control of wood grain (if stained) or uniformly smooth finish surface if painted.  The only solid wood in cabinets can be found in either face frames or the perimeter frame of a door (its stiles and rails that surround the panel).  Cabinet cases will be plywood or some variation of highly-compressed panels - which can range from junk to high-quality (even Poggenpohl uses a compressed panel product for its cases).

For clarification, there are real-wood veneers and there are the artificial veneers you find in many mass-produced apartments and condos, but that's a different story entirely.   [/quote]

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