HAGER CITY, WI – October 13, 2026 – PRESSADVANTAGE –

Crestwood Cabinetry, a custom cabinet maker in Hager City, Wisconsin, is detailing this October how rustic barnwood cabinets are being used differently in cabins, where the material tends to run through an entire room, and in year-round homes, where it more often appears as a single piece. The company, which has designed custom cabinets for more than 20 years for homes and businesses in Southeast Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, is also taking a position on whether the style is a passing trend or one that is here to stay, drawing on the material it builds with, the finishes it has applied and the rooms where the style has already been installed.

Rustic barnwood is one of the named styles on the company’s Cabinet Styles page, alongside quartersawn oak, modern farmhouse and painted distressed finishes. According to the website, the company’s barnwood cabinets are built with material from Forever Barnwood, a product made from new lumber that is milled to carry a weathered appearance rather than from salvaged boards. The page lists full overlay doors and drawer fronts, rustic solid wood tops, shiplap wall covering, and barnwood flooring as the elements that make up the style.

That sourcing choice is the company’s answer to the durability half of the question, and the website describes the benefit in terms of where the material comes from rather than any published testing. In an article on wood cabinet styles, the company states that the new lumber keeps the knots, grain variation, and weathered texture that give barnwood its character while offering the reliability of new wood, and that the grain in each piece is one of a kind.

“Barnwood can be used in very different ways depending on the space,” said Jake Hinrichs, owner of Crestwood Cabinetry. “In a cabin, it can carry through the kitchen and other rooms, while in a year-round home, a barnwood island or mudroom storage can add texture without making the entire space feel rustic.”

The company’s project gallery shows both scales. The single-piece approach appears in Hudson, Wisconsin, where a barnwood island in a white wash finish serves as the focal point of a kitchen, and in Goodhue, Minnesota, where barnwood mudroom lockers finished in century grey are topped with two inches of solid wood and hold drawer storage for shoes, bags, and seasonal gear. The full-room approach appears in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, where a shed kitchen done in Forever Barnwood pairs the cabinets with a painted and glazed barnwood vanity, concrete countertops and a live edge walnut island surface, with a copper vessel sink set on a barnwood counter in the project’s bathroom.

Two displays in the company’s Hager City showroom carry the style into other rooms. A bar area sets weathered full overlay base cabinets and circle-sawn upper cabinets against a shiplap back wall in an accent color, with an open shelf on metal piping, and an office display pairs a shiplap wall with a desk and table finished in two-inch-thick barnwood surfaces cut with a waterfall edge.

The company’s guidance for homes and cabins follows the split seen in those projects. The decision, in its view, rests on how much of the material a room should carry rather than on which type of property suits the style, and then on the finish, which varies far more from project to project than the construction does.

“The amount of barnwood used often depends on the overall feel of the space,” Hinrichs said. “Some projects call for the same finish across cabinets, vanities and countertops, while others use barnwood for one feature and pair it with simpler finishes elsewhere.”

The final choice is where the company’s barnwood projects differ most from one another. The gallery and showroom pieces range from the weathered boards of the showroom bar to white wash, century grey, and painted and glazed treatments. Each project is specified from the countertop down, with clients selecting the base shoe, door style, hardware, wood species, countertop, and colors. The company also builds barnwood for bathrooms, where the website describes full overlay doors and rustic solid wood tops as the defining elements.

Crestwood Cabinetry is a third-generation custom cabinetry company in Hager City, Wisconsin, serving Southeast Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, including Red Wing, Rochester, Woodbury, Hudson, and River Falls. The company designs and builds custom cabinets for kitchens, bathrooms, entertainment centers, fireplace surrounds, home offices, and mudroom lockers, and also provides cabinet refacing, millwork finishing, and countertops. Its commercial work includes nursing homes, banks, and churches, often alongside Red Wing Construction.

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For more information about Crestwood Cabinetry Inc., contact the company here:

Crestwood Cabinetry Inc.
Jake Hinrichs
715-792-5351
info@crestwoodcabinetry.com
N1428 760th St, Hager City, WI 54014

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