Timber vs MDF Kitchen Door/Drawer Fronts

[Road2Ruin]

My in laws had a solid timber kitchen about 10 years ago. Hand painted too. It started to look rubbish after about 6 months.
The paint started to wear off, the doors warped due to heat and humidity.
Cost them £25k. Not diy kitchens though.

[rsbmw]

Island is carbon

[singlecoil]

Road2Ruin said:

My in laws had a solid timber kitchen about 10 years ago. Hand painted too. It started to look rubbish after about 6 months.
The paint started to wear off, the doors warped due to heat and humidity.
Cost them £25k. Not diy kitchens though.

Sounds like the paint was inadequate and that the doors were made in a factory or workshop where the temperature and more particularly the humidity was not controlled. So when the doors went from a cold, damp unit into a warm dry atmosphere (as is found in modern kitchens) they warped.