Wood Specie Availability

Mouser Cabinetry offers ten different wood species and door materials for our Premier Series and Centra Series cabinets. Select Alder wood specie is a straight grained, medium density hardwood featuring a color range of light brown with reddish or peach hues. Natural characteristics of Select Alder include a uniform texture with small sound knots, modular rays, curly grain, pin holes and small mineral streaks.

Knotty Alder is a medium density hardwood featuring a color range of light brown with reddish or peach hues. Naturally occurring wood characteristics include modular rays, curly grain, mineral streaks and small-to-large split knots or open knots that vary in size, shape and color.

Cherry ranges in color from white to red and on to a deep, rich brown. Exposure to natural light causes the color of the wood to darken over time. The natural wood colors will deepen, turning the darker areas of the wood a deep, reddish brown while the lighter areas darken to shades of yellow and brown.

Maple is a hardwood with a tight, uniform grain that tends to have very little definition and varies in color from white to cream to light brown with pale streaks of gold, pink, and brown throughout. Maple may exhibit small areas that are reminiscent of bird’s eyes and curly grain and may contain random small black mineral streaks.

Paint Grade Maple is a hardwood with a tight, uniform grain that tends to vary in color from white to cream to light brown with pale streaks of gold, pink, and brown throughout. Paint Grade Maple may exhibit mineral markings and small areas that are reminiscent of bird’s eyes along with curly grain and may contain more variation in color. *Hickory is a dense, heavy hardwood with closed and open wood grain. The wood’s natural color has a wide array of hues ranging from white to chocolate brown. Naturally occurring mineral streaks and random knots add to the wood’s appeal.

Quarter Sawn White Oak: - An open grained wood with grain patterns that are produced by quartering the log and cutting each quarter in a unique sequence. Distinguishing characteristics include ‘rays’ or ‘flecks’ that appear in random patterns across the grain of the wood giving the appearance of ‘tiger stripes’.

Red Oak is a very strong, open-grained hardwood that ranges in color from salmon pink to white. It is sometimes streaked with green, yellow and black mineral deposits and may contain knots and grain veins that are naturally characteristic of the wood.

Walnut: An open grained wood with long, wavy grain patterns and coarse texture exhibiting occasional mineral streaks and pin knots, Walnut has a rich, warm color, ranging from a deep chocolate brown to dark purple-brown to a light reddish-brown.

MDF+Plus is a medium density fiberboard (MDF) of pre-consumer recycled wood fiber that utilizes a formaldehyde free adhesive system to create a water resistant product with superior MDF properties. MDF+Plus provides the same smooth surfaces, consistent board thickness and non-expansion, non-contraction properties of traditional MDF material. Premier Series Select Specie Program

Exotic Woods, Select Wood Species and Laminate Product offerings are available as part of our Premier EuroStyle product line. Current exotic wood specie selections include Bamboo and fifteen additional reconstituted veneers as follows: Wenge, Zebrawood, Rift Cut White Oak, Quarter Sawn Ash, Quarter Sawn Cherry, Quarter Sawn Macassar, Quarter Sawn Ebony, Quarter Sawn Fir, Quarter Sawn Mahogany, Quarter Sawn Maple, Quarter Sawn Gray Oak, Quarter Sawn Rosewood, Quarter Sawn Teak, Quarter Sawn Walnut, and Birdseye Maple. Additional Specie Select offerings may be available through the Mouser Cabinetry Custom Quote Program.