Choose Green

Green living is about making the right choice for your family and the planet.


Every Holiday kitchen is a kitchen built around choice - what suits the way you live. Our green kitchens are no different. You pick how green you want to be, we provide you with all the custom kitchen cabinetry options.

Live Green
  • select your level of green products, box, door styles, finish
  • select full access, frameless, construction for 10% more inside usable space, easier to clean, simple elegance
  • elegant, durable, safe, low in VOC emissions product line with no added urea formaldehyde (NAUF) options available
Standard Plywood Cabinet Box o meets the environmentally friendly KCMA HPVA.3 standards
  • SCS and EPP certified to be 100% pre-consumer recycled wood fiber particleboard
  • CARB 1 compliant
  • natural maple veneer interior
Standard Melamine Cabinet Box
  • manufactured from recycled materials.
  • CARB 1 compliant
  • true melamine interior, not paper or vinyl
Live Green Melamine Cabinet Box or Live Green Plywood Cabinet Box
  • non-added urea formaldehyde industrial board from recycled materials or plywood
  • CARB 2 compliant
  • true melamine interior, not paper or vinyl, or natural maple veneer interior on plywood
Cabinet glue
  • all adhesives are formaldehyde free
Moso Bamboo
  • renewable resource - a grass that is harvested and replenishes itself in three to five years.
  • found in low mountain areas of eastern China, thus not depriving pandas of their food source
  • fine, even grain
  • less susceptible to mold and fungus
  • qualifies for green building points as a renewable resource
Coconut Palm
  • comes from plantation grown coconut palms, which are in abundance throughout much of the world. Heavy cracking is a natural characteristic and can't be prevented. Flat cut and edge cut boards are available.
  • coconut palms produce nuts for up to 80 years.
  • non-producing palms are removed and replaced.
  • coconut palm lumber can vary greatly in color and density. We use only the hard, dark palm for our look and durable surface.
Refacing
  • keep your cabinets and reface the fronts to contemporize your kitchen
  • reface in natural bamboo or reconstituted veneers for a greener option
Natural Finish
  • wood at its finest
Linseed Oil Finish - Green at Heart
  • hand-rubbed natural, chemical-free finish extracted from flax seed. It offers a quality finish that has been used for years for preservation of antiques and guns.
Forward Stewardship Council (FSC) Lumber is available
  • To learn more about FSC visit www.fsc.org


Crystal
http://www.crystalcabinets.com/GreenQuestflyer.pdf
http://www.crystalcabinets.com/GreenProducts.htm
http://www.crystalcabinets.com/earthmatters.pdf

Richlite
http://www.richlite.com/countertop/environment.html
http://www.richlite.com/countertop/faqenv.html