Barker Cabinets sample cabinet came today!!!
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Comments (25)Thanks to everyone on this thread for making me do more due diligence than I thought I had to. I have learned a lot about the Barker process and options and I hope it will be helpful for those of you agonizing over a purchase decision. I also want to offer the highest possible praise to Chad Barker for his patience, diligence, and helpfulness. Finally got our order placed after extensive emails back and forth with Chad. We are getting the upgrade to hard white maple with the pure white (SW 7005) finish on the Westminster door style, and the following comments are only applicable to doors that DON'T have raised panel inserts. Painted, solid wood raised panel inserts or bead board are too prone to seasonal expansion and contraction and should be mdf. Paint grade maple is only marginally harder than alder(see my previous post on the janka ratings) . Alder machines better for door fabrication and is less prone to warping. The hard white maple is quite dense and doesn't make a good substrate for DIY paint application. You are likely to encounter chipping problems because of poor adhesion. However, with the factory applied paint, the commercial priming and CV finish are just as problem free as the painted alder. The wood panel inserts for shaker style doors like the Westminster that don't have raised panels are fine for painted applications and don't have the expansion issue that leads to raw wood showing up around the edges. With respect to stains and "cleanability" - the factory finish on the painted cabinets is conversion varnish, not just paint. As a result you have the most moisture and stain resistant finish you can get on a painted finish. Because the factory finish is CV, the SW 7005 paint you buy at the store is very close, but not an exact match. Something to think about when considering crown moldings and light rails. You can always bring a door into the store and have the computer try to color match it, but I've found those results to be iffy when the new paint is adjacent to the original. Regarding costs. We wanted frameless cabinets. Not a value judgement just a personal preference. The pre-built options for frameless are pretty limited until you get up into the true semi and full custom lines. Home Depot does offer Innermost - but their style/color/size choices are limited and for what we have ordered, the price was over 30% higher than our hard maple Barker order. In summary - if the painted Barker line give you all of the flexibility, quality, and style you want and your doors are the shaker style without raised panels, and you're concerned about dings to the doors and drawers - if there's some room in the budget upgrade to the hard maple. Just bear in mind that no wood is damage proof. It's just that the denser/harder the wood the more damage resistant it is. I hope this is helpful - and good luck with your projects....See MoreCabinet knobs from ebay came today...
Comments (5)Those are great! I tried to find pulls I loved on Ebay. I really really did!! I even ordered a bunch of sample pulls from two different companies. But unfortunatly for my budget, these IKEA pulls spoke to me the loudest. I needed 29 of the longer ones for my drawers($6.99 a pair) and 21 of the shorter ones for the cabinets ($4.99 a pair). I do love them though...they are sleek and elegant. I wish I could have saved some $$ using Ebay though. Here is a link that might be useful: Ikea TAG handles...See MoreBarker Cabinet Door Samples
Comments (2)Good luck! I ended up going with Conestoga through the Cabinet Joint due to concerns over wait times so I don't have any doors I can pass your way :(...See MoreBarker Cabinet Doors are wrong. Again.
Comments (17)Thanks Raee. The crew did make sure the doors were right this time. They showed up, got organized, put two up, and then called me out to see that the color was wrong. They get paid for that. I don't see how Barker has gone above and beyond. They delivered a defective product (a damaged panel). I told them I would try to work around it, but wanted to make sure they would address the issue later on if I couldnt. And I explained that I couldn't unpack everything at that time. They agreed there was no time limit. So that was generous, but not if it turns out to not be true. Do you really think comping the two doors and the crown is "above and beyond?" I'm sincerely asking, not disagreeing. That just didn't seem like huge consession to me, but I'm REALLY angry because there initial response was basically, "you must be wrong, we can't have made that mistake." That's one of my biggest peeves. And they just made same mistake again, so I'm really seething....See Moredutty
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9 years agoI have tons of pics and advice/tips/recommendations!!! We absolutely love our Barker kitchen. I will post again when I get off work this afternoon...it's a busy Friday here at work so I won't be able to do it until then. Here's one pic I posted recently...more to come later...
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