Alder sideboards made to measure

At Pickawood UK, you can configure alder sideboards online according to your desired custom made dimensions. With the sideboard, you can create order at home, adapting it to your ideas and exact room dimensions. Only Pickawood UK's made-to-measure work can achieve this, saving valuable space in the room.

Expertise and quality craftsmanship in alder sideboards

You can rely on decades, if not a lifetime of pleasure with your alder sideboard from Pickawood UK. Our experienced carpenters use high-quality alder wood from sustainable forestry, which has proven itself in furniture making. There are over 30 different species of alder in Europe, Asia and North America, which like to grow by lakes, streams and in bogs. Alder is a so-called pioneer wood, like the Scots pine and the downy birch. It is the first wood to grow on a windthrow or burned area. The soil improves with alder growth, followed by more demanding wood species. The alder trunks grow straight, which predestines their boards for a longer custom made sideboard. The knot-free shafts, which can grow up to eight metres long, are particularly valuable. Although no real heartwood develops in them, the colour of the wood becomes more intense towards the middle of the trunk. Freshly cut it can even be orange-red, after drying it then appears slightly orange to reddish brown or pale yellow. Alder wood has very fine pores and characteristic pseudo-marrow rays, which are formed by wood rays that stand close together locally. The appearance of an alder sideboard is very uniform.

Alder sideboard with good technical properties

Alder wood has good staying power, as we carpenters say. It is stable with a perceived eternal durability (like oak wood), for which, however, it has to be watered before processing. Since alder has less dense wood than oak or beech, the boards are much softer, but this is enough for a normally loaded sideboard. They are also comparatively light, but similarly tough and elastic as beech wood. Our carpenters receive alder boards in cut lengths ranging from plenty of two to over four metres. They are cheaper than oak, ash or beech boards. For the sideboards, we use solid alder wood, which is excellent for smaller custom made furniture. By the way, it is also popular for decorative objects, toys and model making. We also use it as peeled or sliced veneer for panels and panelling. Doors and floors look just as beautiful with this wood as a sideboard. If you have any questions about alder, we will be happy to advise you free of charge. Our fitters will also assemble your sideboards at your request. In the living room and bedroom, wide sideboards are very suitable, in the hallway they should usually be somewhat narrower. You yourself determine the custom made dimensions, which you enter online in our configurator. In our gallery you can already see custom made sideboards that we have designed in stock or that our previous customers have bought from us, assembled and then enthusiastically photographed.