Kitchens by Riland

Bamboo is starting to be seen as a pretty alternative for furniture, floor, and cabinet construction. For quite a long time now, such traditional hardwood choices of Maple, Oak, and Poplar were to be considered for the abovementioned uses. Even though bamboo is used widely in homes for flooring, today kitchen designers and home owners are using it just about anywhere in the house, from the kitchen cabinets to serving bowls, chopping boards, countertops, dining room chairs and shower curtains.

Bamboo kitchen cabinets are quite beautiful and have more advantages over hardwood. For example, bamboo is considered the most eco-friendly product in the world. Bamboo is in point of fact not a wood but a grass hence matures for a few years (5-6) unlike hardwood that takes as much as 50 years to mature. This makes bamboo a renewable sustainable resource. Bamboo kitchen cabinets are significantly more long lasting than hardwood. Actually, it is quite tough with 15% hardness over Maple and 25% over Oak.

Bamboo comes in several colors – blond, (bamboo’s natural color and which is the most popular color for kitchen cabinets), as well as light green, dark green, yellow, gray, black, and dark amber. The other reason that makes bamboo ideal for kitchen cabinets is that it’s a dimensionally strong and steady material. What makes bamboo so strong and steady is the fact that each strand of its grain stands rightly straight. There is no other tree on earth that can be compared to how the bamboo tree grows. Although bamboo is a very light material, it has less expansion and contraction than wood.

Bamboo kitchen cabinets can bring the charm of the outdoors indoors, creating a very striking and exotic appeal for your kitchen space. Because this eco-friendly and highly renewable and sustainable product is very similar to hardwood in terms of strength, feel, and style, no wonder it is thought to be yet another great building material to be used in creating kitchen cabinets that will make your kitchen truly stand out.

What makes bamboo kitchen cabinets beautiful and unique are the fact that it is inimitable thanks to its light-colored edge. This gives any kitchen cabinet a sophisticated and clean look. Bamboo kitchen cabinets can have the magnificent warm tone characteristic of carbonized caramel color or the natural light insignia of the neutral blond color. Vertical or edge grain gives a very smooth and attractive long lines.

Simply put, bamboo not only enhances the environment, it will enhance the value of your kitchen design by using it to make bamboo kitchen cabinets.