Those that have made lots of kitchen cabinets, what to you finish the inside with if using plywood . Same stain as the out side with a couple coats of urethane. Or is presto log (melamine) the norm.
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I dont stain the inside of my cabs but I finish them with same finish as the outside. I usualy make my cabs out of shop birch . I like the look of the unstained natural wood for the interior.
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All of my cabinets are finished on site by a finishing/painting contractor. He removes the doors and shelves and shoots the interiors with clear laquer. He then finishes the exterior in accordance with the samples that I provide and the customer selects on site in what will be the normal lighting conditions for the room where the cabinets are installed.
This process resulted from numerous customers changing their minds after the cabinets were installed. The room looks totally different than they did before the new cabinets. Usually it was more elegant than they anticpated and therefore caused the desire for a more elegant, richer finish.If I stain the interiors in the shop prior to assembly to avoid glue line problems, (nit picky customers), they would rarely matched the exteriors.
Steve - in Northern California
Edited 7/25/2002 2:22:27 PM ET by Steve Schefer
I use pre-finished maple plywood for my cabinets-no interior finishing, except for cabinets with glazed doors in which case the interior is the same as the exteriors. I use polyurethane almost exclusively.
Using Melamine will save you an incredible amount of labor. If you are using a face frame construction consider how you are going to treat the joint between the interior and the 3/4 thickness of the face frame when they are flush to each other. Generally, it is easier to prefinish wherever you can as much as you can. I've even prefinished face frames and nailed them on, filling the holes afterwards in rustic style cabinets.
Richard James Tolzman