• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The craftsmanship is impressive… The material abhorrent.

    It makes no sense lol somone this good with wood, putting effort into making it out of crap.

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      Cheap client not willing to pay for proper materials and a good carpenter who didn’t care enough to argue with them about it would be my guess.

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      It’s taking a post modern architecture concept and applying it to just what the home owner can reasonably change.

      The idea is that the building shouldn’t hide or obscure what the materials it is made from. You’ll see it in buildings with deliberate exposed pipes, exposed concrete, unfinished wood.

      It’s about honesty and function.

      The problem is to make this work they needed to go further or not so far. A polished concrete countertop, industrial tiles and industrial appliances could make this work better. Or using plywood rather than OBS.

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        I don’t get the OBS choice because cabinets are usually made out of plywood which, like you said, would look way better

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          OBS looks more ‘real’. Cabinets are usually made of MDF or OBS in the UK. MDF has great dimensional stability but it is prone to swelling in humid environments, so it would have a veneer or coat of paint in a kitchen.

          Plywood is also much more expensive in the UK relative to OBS. I know OBS is made in the UK, plywood is more likely to be imported.

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            But do you generally make kitchen cabinets out of OBS there? If not then I feel like the designers wasn’t going for post modern, they were aiming for it to look cheap and ugl

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              Kitchen cabinet are made with veneered OBS. That is purchased cut and veneered to size like flat packs.

              It’s possible someone with a CNC machine built this kitchen to be as cheap as possible (without including the expense of the CNC). The CNC would allow the tight tolerances and very little tare out you would normally expect with OBS.

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      I’m guessing this is some kind of veneer. OSB doesn’t even cut clean enough to be used as a cabinet

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      It doesn’t even make any sense because MDF isn’t really much more expensive than strand board and is a very common cabinet material.