| If you're looking to put in new kitchen cabinets, or | | | | Mahogany is strong, beautiful and it has outstanding |
| perhaps a butcherblock countertop or even | | | | durability. Mahogany has a very fine and even |
| hardwood flooring, one of the more eco-friendlier | | | | texture and is a medium density hardwood that is a |
| woods you might consider for your kitchen remodel | | | | beautiful dark reddish brown color. |
| is Lyptus, a premium grade, sustainable, renewable, | | | | Once so plentiful that it was used as ballasts in ships |
| high-yield hardwood grown on South American | | | | returning to Europe from the New World Mahogany |
| plantations interspersed with re-introduced indigenous | | | | is now a rare and protected hardwood making it one |
| trees to preserve native ecosystems. Lyptus wood | | | | of the most expensive woods as well, and also since |
| is grown in a responsible style of forest management. | | | | it is in short supply, fewer cabinet manufacturers |
| Lyptus wood is a hybrid of Eucalyptus grandis and | | | | even offer it in their selections of woods and are |
| Eucalyptus urophylla and is grown in managed forests | | | | instead starting to offer more eco-friendly |
| in Brazil. Each forest is planted on land that was once | | | | alternatives like Lyptus and Bamboo. |
| used for agricultural purposes and barren of trees. | | | | As far as density, strength and technical properties |
| The Lyptus trees grow interspersed with other trees | | | | go, compared to similar woods, its hardness rating is |
| indigenous to the region to help preserve the area's | | | | greater than white oak, mahogany, jatoba, red oak, |
| native ecosystem and increase biodiversity. | | | | hard maple or beech. It looks a LOT like mahogany |
| Due to the warm climate in Brazil, Lyptus trees grow | | | | but at a quarter of price. |
| quickly enabling forest management professionals to | | | | It accepts all common types of finishing, including |
| harvest trees in 15 years versus the 50 to 70 years | | | | water and solution-based lacquers, various types of |
| required in colder regions. And Lyptus trees can be | | | | pigments, and oil and wax. This makes it well suited |
| regenerated after being harvested, without the need | | | | for diverse high-end applications like furniture, |
| for replanting or disturbing the forest floor. | | | | cabinets, flooring and architectural millwork. |
| Cabinet makers and contractors love working with | | | | Similar to Brazilian cherry, purpleheart and several |
| Lyptus citing that it machines well and does not fuzz | | | | other woods, the color will turn a rich cherry red and |
| like Mahogany. It sands well and definitely finishes | | | | will even-out well. |
| very well. The look is great and a person would have | | | | You can have incredibly beautiful kitchen cabinets, |
| a hard time distinguishing a finished part from | | | | countertops or flooring that look like Mahogany while |
| Mahogany, plus you get a little different look than the | | | | still being kind to the environment. Lyptus is a great |
| ordinary wood selections. | | | | eco friendly wood that should definitely be |
| The reason Mahogany is so well loved is that | | | | considered. |