Kitchen cabinets are an essential item in every home. To get a good set of kitchen cabinets, a prerequisite is to choose the right wood. If you are wondering between two types of wood Plywood and MDF, please note the advantages and disadvantages below:
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Plywood
- Plywood has high hardness and mechanical strength, good bearing capacity, little deformation, and is extremely resistant to warping and termites.
- High resistance to water and humidity makes it suitable for use in humid environments such as kitchen areas.
- Due to the multi-layered structure, Plywood can create bendable shapes. Allows you to create kitchen cabinets with modern curves of your own design
- The ability to screw as well as extremely good adhesion, so it is very suitable for use in kitchen cabinets
- Plywood coated with melamine, laminate or acrylic is therefore very diverse in color and wood grain to choose from, and is easy to clean when there are stains on it.
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MDF
- MDF has a flat surface, easy to build furniture. Easily combined with other surface materials such as veneer, acrylic, melamine, laminate, etc.
- MDF helps to limit termites and warping compared to normal natural wood.
- MDF is moisture resistant but not water resistant, so direct contact of the cabinet with water should be limited.
- Styling limitations such as curved and curved surfaces, are also less resistant to scratches and abrasion
It can be seen that both Plywood and MDF have their own outstanding features, but Plywood is far superior in terms of water resistance, durability as well as diverse shapes thanks to its ability to bend, so it is very suitable for use as kitchen cabinets.