Not sticky-backed at all. In fact it looks almost like packing foam, but thicker and stiffer. I like that it cushions the drawers and pull-outs where I used it. It muffles some of the noise when I put my pots and pans and glass bakeware away, and cuts down on the rattling when I open/shut those same drawers/pull-outs. It keeps my electric fry pan, my stand mixer, my food processor and its assorted parts from sliding around when I open or close their pull-outs and my cutting boards from doing the same in their drawer (not to mention protecting the wood from the mineral oil I use on my wood carving and cutting boards). I also ended up putting some pieces of CC on the bottom of my tray cab. I don't know if sliding my baking sheets and cooling racks in and out would have scraped up the cab floor or not, but my pizza stone stored in that cab surely would have, so I put pieces of CC on the cab floor on both sides of the divider. Is it a must have? That's up to you. Oh, and they do pretty much stay in place.

Doug fir has a lot of applications and it's been used as flooring for a long time. Certainly you can use it to build cabinet doors and drawer faces. If it's a wood that appeals to your personal "style" or matches the decor of your home is a question only you can answer. While your efforts to reuse materials is admirable I seriously doubt if you going to save a lot of money. You're going to have to pay someone to mill the logs. There's no guarantee about quality or yields although an experience sawer should be able to give you some indication of what you'll end up with. You'll need to let the wood dry. Air drying will take a year or so and for cabinetry you'll want to have it kiln dried. Then you'll have to pay someone to mill it into flooring or make your cabinets. You might want to take a look at this industry article on doug. fir. http://www.wwpa.org/dfir.htm Mike

Pictures cannot really show what a difference it made. In one of the pictures, I put the back of one of the doors up against a newly painted door to show the difference. It is slightly blurry, but the gist is there. The other pictures just show the whole kitchen. We are in the process of tiling the floor and back splash, and painting, and replacing the counters. I added more cabinets, that is why you might notice the counter is a bit short. I used the Krylon Fusion paint because it sticks best to plastic, and I used the Satin, as opposed to gloss. I will tile the ends of the cabinets. It would have been possible to take them off the wall and paint them as well. I never painted the inside of the doors, but now that I think of it, I probably should have. The inside would have to be done first, so that any overspray could be covered up on the front when the front was painted. The cabinets are frameless, so you don't notice the color difference unless the door is open.

If they are square they are for bread storage. If they are curved they are for flour & sugar storage. I am still researching this based on a design from a turn-of-the-century Hoosier cabinet!