IKEA Cabinets

[janeadams]

Indeed, you cannot count on solid wood either. It "moves" as it absorbs moisture. We order DeWils hickory cabinets for our Maui house. The doors started to come apart within a month or two. DeWils replaced them. Another couple of months, and it was happening again. This time, we went back to the supplier (Container Home supply), and told them we didn't want to go throughit again. There was a good cabinetmaker just down the road, so we asked them to have the doors re-cut, glued and repaired. As they knew there had been problems with some particular types of wood in Hawaii, Dewils and CHS shared the cost, and our cabinets were fine after that. lesson is that wood and glue are no road to perfection if they come from the mainland and don't acclimate before construction of the cabinets. If ya got the $$, go for a local cabinetmaker...

Jane