Wall Units

Hickory Wood Wall Unit

If you ever wanted a wall unit for your home, either as an entertainment center of fireplace cabinetry, the stylish of a hickory custom cabinet is matchless. Hickory is a tree bearing edible nuts and native to eastern United States and north of Mexico, although some species come from China, Indochina and other Asian regions.

The wood from hickory is exceptionally heavy, tough, hard and strong, widely used in structural elements requiring strength and thinness, as well as a veneer. In furniture, hickory was first used in the early 19th century, and basically in the making of club shafts, since the wall unit concept is relatively new.

Although tough, hickory is flexible and valued for tool handles, bows, drumsticks, walking canes and golf club shafts, originally called "hickory stick", the name is still in use despite most of them are now made of graphite or steel. However, the heavier hardwood comes from various species of hickory trees, including Pecan, using the same for a wall unit that is used for baseball bats.

During the 19th century, hickory was highly prized for wood-burning stoves, because of the woods high caloric content and is still in use, but in low scale. Since those times of the Wild West caravans to the present, hickory wood is also a preferred type for smoked curing meats. Hickory had a countless number of uses until the 1920's when other woods and procedures substituted it, and before woodcraft retook it in the form of a table, a wall unit, a chair, or a desk.

A wall unit made of hickory has a particular delicacy and grace, either as an entertainment center containing a sound and/or television system usually more than setup as a kitchen cabinet. The advantage of wall units is that they can be designed and built in accordance to the customer's specifications.

There are 15 species of hickory in the United States, including Pecan. However only 8 of them are commercially used in furniture, which is commonly available in color ranging from white to tan, but also from natural to reddish brown, the distinctive tone of most wall unit furniture crafted in hickory for strength and durability.

Decorative hickory veneers are also commonly used in rustic furniture, particularly furniture and structural parts build up in Pecan, which has a very close grain without much figure. This wood requires little maintenance in order to continue looking like the very first day you bought your wall unit or any other furniture or structural piece.

Like any other type of wood, the basic care of hickory is as simple as not placing your piece of furniture near a heater vent. Dry heat may cause the hickory to warp or split if it is made from a solid hardwood, although the nice veneered hickory wood does not need too much care. Protect the furniture's finish, only needs dust regularly, particularly if yours is a wall unit supporting devices attracting dust.

Small film of dust creates small scratches in wood and makes it vulnerable to further damage appliances placed in a wall unit, such as TV sets, stereos, rear projection screens, etc. Avoid multi-purpose cleansers and use instead a soft cloth, slightly dampened to trap the dust, or try those treated wipes to dust, since they are especially designed to collect both air and dust.

Hickory can be easily integrated to any decoration thanks to the unlimited variety of cabinetry, stand-alone bookcases or just selecting a beautiful wall unit for your living room or any other area of your home or workplace. Hickory furniture can be stained and finished or painted with details to match existing features of the actual room or its furniture or architectural element.

The choice of the dense and fibrous hickory wood adds value to your wall unit, because its strength and durability, making it nearly indestructible. This is a unique piece of furniture commonly found in most homes across the United States, as well as a distinctive seal in restaurants, resorts, hotels and private clubs throughout the world, and particularly appreciated in custom furniture with rustic style.

In fact, skilled craftsman continue producing historic designs for collectors with the look of those early designs centuries ago, but with the modern technology that anyone getting a wall unit expects.