Kitchen Cabinet Materials

Oak? Maple? Stainless? Laminate? When you're considering new kitchen cabinets, one of the biggest decisions is your choice of materials and finish. You may know exactly what you want — maybe you fell in love with the steel cabinets in a friend's gourmet kitchen, or maybe you've been wanting hickory since you saw a picture in a magazine. Or you may be wavering a bit — you know you want French Country, but should it be cherry or maple? We understand. That's why we've put together this reference section on popular materials for today's kitchen cabinets — at all price points. Check out different types of wood, metal and laminate cabinets. Find out which materials work best in different styles and settings, which are good choices if you've got small children, and what hidden issues may catch you unawares — from wood changing color with age to shelves sagging under a load of canned goods. You won't find this information in the glossy brochures, but you'll find it very useful when you're discussing your plans with your building pro, as it helps you narrow your options to the ones that will really work well for you.
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Kitchen Cabinet

The Kitchen Cabinet was a term used by political opponents of U.S. President Andrew Jackson to describe the collection of unofficial advisors he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton Affair and his break with Vice President John Calhoun in 1831.[1][2] In an unprecedented dismissal of five of the six Cabinet officials in the middle of his first term, Jackson dismissed Calhoun's allies Samuel D. Ingham, John Branch, and John M. Berrien as well as his own supporters, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren and John Eaton. However, Jackson retained Van Buren in Washington as the minister to Great Britain. Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet included his longtime political allies Martin Van Buren, Francis Preston Blair, Amos Kendall, William B. Lewis, Andrew Donelson, John Overton, and his new attorney general Roger Brooke Taney. As newspapermen, Blair and Kendall were given particular notice by rival papers.[2][3] Blair was Kendall's successor as editor of the Jacksonian Argus of Western America, the prominent pro-New Court newspaper of Kentucky. Jackson brought Blair to Washington D.C. to counter Calhounite Duff Green, editor of The United States Telegraph, with a new paper, the Globe. Lewis had been quartermaster under Jackson during the War of 1812; Andrew Donelson was Jackson's adoptive son and private secretary; and Overton Jackson's friend and business partner since the 1790s.^[3][4]

1. ^ Wilentz, Sean (October 24, 2005). The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, hardcover, W. W. Norton. ISBN 0393058204.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Remini, Robert V. (September 1, 2001). The Life of Andrew Jackson, Perennial Classics, Harper Perennial Modern Classics. ISBN 0060937351.
3. ^ ^{a b} Wilentz, Sean (December 27, 2005). in Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Andrew Jackson, BCE Edition, Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0805069259.
4. ^ John Overton Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture Kyle Vogt

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