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Extend the home kitchen’s surface and storage space with the addition of this kitchen cart with a convenient 10-inch drop leaf. From Catskill Craftsmen, the kitchen cart’s body is crafted out of laminated rubber wood with a pure white finish. The cart’s top and drop leaf feature sustainable North American hardwood construction with a natural lacquer finish; a separate cutting board should be used on the cart. The attractive cart comes with a bevy of nifty features, including a knife storage rack and a towel bar. For stashing bottle openers, corkscrews, measuring cups, meat thermometers, and other tools, the cart provides a 25-1/2-by-11-1/4-by-3-inch utility drawer under the worktop. Keep often-used cookbooks or coffee mugs in the 27-by-13-3/4-by-8-1/2-inch open storage compartment for quick access. Below this compartment, two doors open to a 27-by-13-by-15-3/4-inch storage cabinet to contain small kitchen appliances or cooking spices, herbs, and oils. Satin nickel loop handles open the doors and the utility drawer. To move to and fro, the cart travels on four single-wheel casters. The kitchen cart requires home assembly and comes with necessary hardware. A one-year limited warranty covers this item. With the drop leaf down, the assembled cart measures 34-1/2 inches wide by 16 inches deep by 34 inches high. The cart’s overall depth increases to 26 inches with the leaf up. Upon shipping, the cart weighs 92 pounds.
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Catskill Craftsmen has become the nation's leading manufacturer of ready-to-assemble domestic hardwood kitchen islands, carts, and work-centers. Catskill Craftsmen manufactured items are made from naturally self-sustaining, non-endangered North American hardwoods, primarily Northern Yellow Birch. Lumber is purchased from area sawmills, then dried, manufactured, and packaged on site. All sawdust, shavings and waste materials generated during the manufacturing process is converted into wood pellet fuel, and used to heat homes. Featuring a drop leaf, open and enclosed storage, white lacquered base, natural lacquered top and locking caster wheels. Imported. Assembly Required. Other features: Knife rack and towel bar.
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43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
sturdy cart,
By martha (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Catskill Craftsmen Drop Leaf Utility Cart (Kitchen)
I bought this cart because Catskill makes some really nice hardwood carts and this one was inexpensive. The site is not explicit that this cart is not hardwood, it is fiberboard laminated with a white material. The site said it is a lacquer finish but that implies a painted finish, not a laminate. The top is wood. The rest is not.
That said, it is a very well made sturdy cart. I only cried once when putting it together.
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Value But Some Warts,
By Opera Fan (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Catskill Craftsmen Drop Leaf Utility Cart (Kitchen)
It is made of wood (not composite board), but that wood is laminated with a white vinyl finish, not painted. One of my pieces came with three parallel slits in the laminate that would face out and front. I requested a replacement on the manufacturer's website on a Sunday afternoon and the piece arrived by Priority Mail on Wednesday. The top is lacquered wood, so you will want a cutting board any time you use a knife during prep work. It was well packed--the defective piece went into the box that way. Assembly is always the hard part with this sort of furniture. It was harder than good Ikea pieces and not as hard as the worst I've done over many years. It looks nice when assembled.
Make sure you have Goo Gone and some soft paper towels at hand because all the pieces have sticky labels. Goo Gone will remove the glue but not harm the laminate. Other solvents are deadly for laminate. The instructions are almost all pictures with a few cautionary words here and there. Caution: don't use a power screwdriver. I have arthritis in my hands, and I have a cordless power drill/screwdriver with 22 torque settings. Using the lowest setting VERY slowly I was successful--but you do this at your own risk. My hands are too weak on their own. Some of the screws are nearly impossible to set, even with the power tool, because the holes are not drilled deep enough. The parts list distinguishes between the two slightly different crossbars called 2 and 2(i). It fails to distinguish between the differences in the two crossbars numbered 3: the one with two grooves should be called 3(i). Get a rubber mallet and also an old towel as a cushion to use under each crossbar when you find that you must hammer in the pins. The other caution is not to tighten the eight bolts that hold the side panels to the cross bars. Insufficient instructions! You should tighten the bottom four well enough to allow you to insert the casters and set the partly assembled cart upright on the floor. The upper four should be less tight. They illustrate putting both the base and mid panels in place at the same time before inserting the casters. Don't do it. Put the base panel in and also the bottom back panel, then tighten the bottom bolts enough to hold the base panel in place. Then the casters go in (rubber mallet help here) and the cart can stand up. You now may even need to loosen the upper cross bar (the one to which you have already attached the door magnets). Being able to rotate this crossbar a good bit is ESSENTIAL to getting the doors on. Otherwise, you'll never have the clearance to get the hinges in place. Re-orient the upper crossbar and tighten the bolts enough to hold the doors in place. Insert the mid panel and the upper back panel. NOW tighten all eight bolts to final position. The two side panels of the have an UP and a DOWN (look at the hole spacing) that is not labeled anywhere! Put the drawer together carefully because you must get all the screws lined up with their predrilled holes. Don't tighten any screws until all of them have been properly started. The knife rack is just a little slit between the edge of the top and the outside of the box you attach. The main problem and the weakest link in this assembly is attaching the top. You have to align holes on the UNDER side of the top with holes in the support bars (that you attached to the side panels way back in the beginning), then set screws from BENEATH the support bars up into the top. But the drawer guides are in your way--I had no choice but to take them off. AND, there is simply not enough working room to screw in the rear screws all the way. You cannot leave any of the four screws sticking out because they will prevent the drawer from going onto its glides and and/or from pushing all the way in. I had to go buy shorter screws--none that I had on hand was the right size. Catskill Craftsmen really need to rethink how this assembly works!!!!
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sturdy, easy assembly, so far so good.,
By derek detonate (new york) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Catskill Craftsmen Drop Leaf Utility Cart (Kitchen)
So, after a grueling early evening of tennis, I sat myself down to assemble this 63 lb flat pack cart, anticipating a multihour ordeal as per some of the previous reviews. All in all, took maybe outside of an hour, and the instructions were fairly clear. If you've put together one flatpack item, you've put together them all. Shipping was a breeze, and it arrived mostly intact, with just some of the interior styrofoam lining broken. All pieces were wrapped in foam wrap and arrived in excellent condition, each piece numbered.
So, as any good assembler & follower of instructions, I unpacked everything and laid it all out, counted the pieces, and got to assembling. The only problem I could see with the instructions is some of the pieces need to be oriented in a specific direction - that is of the two number whatevers, one of them is meant to be mounted on the right, and one on the left. THIS IS WHY YOU DO NOT TIGHTEN THINGS UNTIL FULLY ASSEMBLED. Attaching the top was also kind of awkward, as if you're using a power drill, you'll need an extended bit, or number 18, the bottom guide of the drawer will get in the way. Problem solved by removing #18 (which they tell you to install in the first step), attaching the top, and then re-attaching 18. Easy peasy. Everything seems solidly assembled when complete, the unit is a bit smaller than I anticipated (SHOULD HAVE MEASURED), but it fits well in our space and is a great value. Two of the coasters lock, and I accidentally installed them on opposite corners, but no big deal there - any way you install two locking coasters of 4, its going to stay in place. One warning I would give is that I don't think the drop leaf is meant to support someone leaning on it, eg a breakfast bar type situation. The supports that extend out from underneath the top are galvanized steel, and very securely held in place, but I still have my apprehensions.
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