Anyone???

Imported cabinets, including Fabuwood, just went up in price. WAY up. 20-50% depending on which price gouging distributor you’re dealing with. The tariffs make the American brands more price attractive. They were always more attractive for multiple other reasons.

We used Fabuwoood for our kitchen., their Galaxy line. No problems and very fast replacement of a drawer front we thought was a little bowed. As other people have said, having a good contractor who knows the cabinet line is helpful.

It's funny how everyone has different perceptions. I've had custom cabinets multiple times in the past, all with varying finishes and quality. My last custom cabinets were amazing but came with an expensive price tag. I am planning an upcoming remodel/addition and planned to use custom or semi-custom cabinets until I went to IKEA this past weekend and was very impressed with them. They will be about half or less of what custom or semi-custom will be with many options only seen on higher end cabinet lines and that solidified it for us. Their new brown Grimslov was stunning. (Not the red brown Grimslov - this color is brand new). I would choose them any day over the ones you mentioned.

That being said, though, Scherr, Semihandmade, and Barker all do doors for IKEA if you don't care for what IKEA offers.

Where did you get 20-50% up-charge on orders from Fabuwood? Where are you shopping at??? We carry them and we received the official announcement yesterday of only 10%

Dear valued partner,
Due to the current state of affairs in the international trade arena, we are one among several industries to be significantly impacted by escalating manufacturing costs.

As a result of this unfortunate situation, a Regulatory Surcharge (RS) of 10% will be applied to all Fabuwood cabinetry orders, effective on all orders placed on or after June 1st, 2019.

The RS will appear as a line item on your order. Orders placed prior to June 1st that are not shipped and invoiced by June 17th, 2019 will also be subject to the RS.
Depending on the progress of events in the international marketplace, this surcharge may be modified or revoked in the future.
We will be sure to keep you updated on any change in this regard. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding.

Most have raised their prices 10% some 25%.

J&K is going up 12.5% in my area, which is half what we thought it'd be. i'm guessing they're eating the other half. I'm calling all my clients that quoted this the last few months to give them a heads up. I have a feeling I'll be suggesting our Shiloh Aspect line now a lot more.

Perspective is funny....I agree with the OP, not impressed with Ikea....especially since I've seen them after 5-15 years of use. I've never priced them out....how much less are they? Than Shiloh Eclipse...which I adore. Do they have price groups? Like a budget, middle and high?

I'd be leary of any company selling online unless you really know what you're doing. That model has been tried and tried in the past and a lot of people got burned. Once the world forgets about these disasters, another new company pops up.

@The Kitchen Place, I had Shiloh priced through their nearest dealer, who also does custom cabinets as well. His Shiloh and custom price were virtually the same for my kitchen (around $20K). Kraftmaid Vantage priced out at about $26K. Ikea's pricing is about $10K but that includes 5 ft of cabinetry in our mudroom area as well.

Out of curiosity, what negatives do you see about IKEA 5-15 years after install? What fails on them (boxes or doors/drawers)? There are several other Pros and homeowners on here that rave about them so I'm genuinely curious as to what your experience is with them so that I don't make a $10K mistake.

I’ve gotten quotes all over the place...

Locally:

Siteline - $25k

Kith - $23k

JSI - $19k

Cabinets.com should be about - $12k

cliqstudios - $11k

Barker cabinets - $10k

IKEA is only around $5k with their doors. I haven’t priced them out with Scherr/Semihandmade/Barker doors

I’m still waiting on some local quotes on Fabuwood and others

did you ever get a comp quote for fabuwood?

Bump. During how fatty would comes in with pricing compared to these others. Our kitchen designer is a distributor for wood mode is quoting us 32,000+. We can get fabuwood for 23,000+

And for what it’s worth, we loved our last kitchen, which was IKEA

Kmazie … is there a reason why you are looking at Fabuwood now if IKEA worked in the past? I am asking bc I am in the same boat ; doing kitchen remodel and had my heart set on IKEA but I just found a local place which carries Fabuwood … now I am confused …

Please let me know what you fibd out. I am in same place, fabuwood versus ikea

I should have a quote for Fabu on Tuesday. I was reading not so good reports on IKEA… but I am not sure how objective these report were. Semihandmade offers now IKEA boxes… so you get a design from ikea and Semi can quote you on their boxes . They supposed to be made of a better particle board (but honestly who knows if this is true .. like how do you measure better) … they also have playwood boxes like the one you find in the typical cabinets but they are more $.

Ok … so one place quoted my (apx 30 feet) Fabuwood cabinets for $12,500 and another for $7,500. (??? Do not quite get this why… asked the dealer and he said “ we provide excellent service” …hmmm)

I also got quotes from Costco for Tuscany Kitchen value express ( basic stock ) cabinets for $8500.
Green Forest $7000 ( quote from 2 different places / similar quotes ).

The prices are approximate … all the layouts for the cabinets were pretty much the same. They included all drawer base cabinets, drawer microwave cabinet, garbage pull out… upper were tall either 39” or 42”. Majority of them were 12” deep. Green Forest were 15” deep.

They are all 1/2 plywood boxes … Blum closures for Fabuwood and green forest. Basic soft closures for Costco. All have dove tail drawers. Green forest had basic colors (ex very white conversion varnish finish with S.williams paint ) their finish is nice to touch and dovetail has smoother ridge comparing to Fabuwood.
I was told that bottom of the drawers in. Green Forest are stronger than Fabuwood.

Attaching picture of Green Forest construction box.

Crappy imports, all. https://www.importgenius.com/importers/green-forest-wood-products-llc