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This Pro Value Traditional Columns alder bar column is a decorative wood column for island ends, peninsula panels, and cabinet runs built to raised-bar height.
The two heights in this program answer the first question a buyer asks about a column: counter height or bar height. At 42 inches, this one is built for raised-bar applications, the elevated counter or island deck that sits above a standard kitchen run. That extra height is where a raised bar visually separates itself from the rest of the kitchen, and a column at the end of that section reinforces the transition. A 36-inch column placed here reads as short; this one reads as deliberate.
Because it is a decorative applied piece and not a structural post, it can be positioned where the design needs a vertical moment without requiring a framing change behind the panel. It does not carry load.
Fluting runs vertical grooves down the column face, a detail that belongs squarely in traditional cabinetry vocabularies: furniture-style kitchens, inset-door programs, period vanities, and ranges that reference older American or European case work. The 3 by 3 inch square section gives the fluting enough face to register as a real column rather than trim that happens to have grooves.
The species is alder, unfinished. Alder is a predictable species for site finishing: it takes stain evenly and is common in cabinet programs, which is why this column appears alongside cherry and maple variants in the same Traditional Columns series. The right call is to match the column species to the surrounding cabinetry rather than finishing across species lines.
Cabinet shops building furniture-style raised-bar islands or peninsula returns where the exposed end needs more than a flat panel. Designers specifying traditional kitchen programs who want the column detail to hold up at raised-bar scale. Contractors finishing a bar section where the exposed end of the cabinet run needs a vertical element that matches the door style. This is a decorative applied column for any of those situations, sized for the height where the traditional vocabulary is most at home.
At 3 inches wide and 3 inches deep it is a fuller square section, not a narrow split. It can be applied to a panel face or used at a corner depending on how it is positioned.
No. It is a decorative applied piece with no rated load capacity. It is not a structural post.
42 inches corresponds to raised-bar height. The 36-inch version in the same program suits standard counter height. Order the height that matches the deck the column will run beside.
Unfinished alder. It is stained, painted, or sealed on site after installation.
Choose this column when a traditional kitchen or bar program needs a finished vertical element at raised-bar height, built from the same species as the cabinetry around it.