Look! A Hand-Carved Cabinet Design Kitchen Inspiration

Aren't these kitchen cabinets striking? The owners hand-carved the tree pattern using an electric router. Stunning!

As we read in Dwell, the cutouts actually serve two purposes: they're decorative (and quite so!) but they also eliminate the need for cabinet pulls, which would jut out and break the clean line.

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Comments (4)

Really pretty but I can only imagine how dust might collect in each little slot over time.

Beautiful, but...

Not hand carved; They are CNC-Milled. tut tut!

yup...definitely not cut by hand...anybody that's ever set foot in a woodshop can see that it's made by cnc-shopbot...
'hand made' my aunt sally

In the interview in the original article (which is linked), they do say that the cabinets and ceiling were CNC-milled for them. Just got caught up in a game of telephone, is all... :-)