Super fine steel wool with the grain works wonders. this is the 000 or 0000 variety. It will remove even stubborn rust stains that appear on stainless steel (i know, i know, it's not SUPPOSED to rust) but it does once in a while and this works. Our Gaggenau dishwasher had rust spots on the front and this got them off, looks like new. Follow with Sheila Shine. It's the greatest thing ever. Expensive but it lasts forever. It's not the most environmentally friendly product but it's what the professional stainless steel people use. When I bought my commercial range and my fabricated my custom stainless sinks and counters in my last kitchen, this is what the steel worker recommended. One tip- use the same rag, keep it in a little ziplock bag. I've had mine for years, you use less. My tiny can has lasted 5 years almost. I get it at the commericial kitchen supply, not sure if it's on the internet. The can is blue and white. You won't be disappointed.

Old River Cabinets is a custom company like Geppetto is with pricing about the same. Old river does not have a book and is a pain to price on the fly because you have to know every little upcharge that is based in their computer system they only have. Geppetto on the other hand has a book with cabinets every 3" with countless modifcation charges that I can apply to any cabinet to make it what ever size I want as I stated in the original post of modifying depth width or height in any combination. If they do not have a cabinet I can start with I have to fax in what I want and wait for a quote back. 3" increments just gives you an easier way to arrive at an exact cost. I can stack them verticaly, I can join them horizontaly up to 8' long for a custom look when they are installed. I can change the doors add a drawer anything you can think of. I can custom color match the fireplace which we are doing. I can custom color match the door sample which has the perfect color wood she wants which she has looked for 2 years to find. She is very picky when it comes to color. Geppetto will make anything I can dream. They are custom just in a manner that is easier to price as a designer who is not a employee of theirs. My overhead excluding gas is $3,000 a month. This business is about competing with the prices of the next guy. Lowes and Home Depot who's cabinet companies they represent sell approx half of all the cabinets in the US are the largest competition. 50% markups on semi custom products are about what you have to do to compete on price but then you can not compete on being as established as as they are when you are self employed per say. A typical set of semi custom cabinets cost the dealer 4-6k so a mark up would be 2-3k per transaction. Now since most people want to go with the established to big to fail company they will only buy with you if you give them a deal they can not turn down. So you drop your margin to do it if it is possible. Or you have contractors that want to work with you where the end price to customer is close in price to Lowes and Home Depot but they want money the owner is not aware of which makes you cut your margin in half and share it with the contractor. So either way you slice it I sell cabinets for the average kitchen that are all plywood dove tail full overlay soft close full extension for 6k most of the time and make $1,200 if you are lucky! So a custom kitchen which takes about twice as much time to figure out as there are many more ways you can layout the kitchen so you do multiple layouts before you find the perfect one for the customer has 400% more profit in it then the semi custom prices of the big box stores. And according to multiple posts on here the competition in supposed "custom" is 50k and up! Where I would be a total price of half that! I was not trying to make this about me I was more agreeing with the title of the thread of sticker shock shock. I have other people who buy fix and sell condo's and town houses here in the dc area where the cabinets cost me 900 - 1200 and I mark it up the same 50% to stay competitive. That translates to 450 profit. But wait.... that customer comes from a granite company that wants money for referring the business. So when you give them a 15% discount the profit on those kitchens goes to less then 200 including in home delivery costs. The industry forces you to work on percent markups. You spend as much time on a small job like that as you do on a semi custom kitchen which pays 1,200 or a custom one which takes a little longer that I doubled the price like other companies do I would make 25-50k on one kitchen? And people want to say that is the way you stay in business because you have overhead? Sticker Shock Shock. I agree. I must be to practical. I just wanted to give some context to the prices and point out that the orignial poster was correct to be shocked in my opinion and state some facts as to why it is true. Antss is right that it does take money to sustain a showroom. But you do not have to rip off your customer to do it by doubling the price of custom cabinets. How much money do you need to make on one job to stay in business when you are talking about profits upwards of 35k per transaction?

wall stickers make a great addition to the home. I've used them to enhance my rooms. but you have to be careful to not overdo it

Since it appears that you are going to have to compromise your choices, make a list from most important to least and share with your window (in this case, Marvin) dealer. Also set a realistic budget target that you want (easier said than done). In the case of Marvin, Andersen and other large manufacturers, the have multiple lines that you can mix. I have many jobs where I have mixed Marvin products. Ultimate on the front elevation or the more important rooms and Elevate and Essential elsewhere. By staying with the same manufacturer's line, you don't have to worry about matching colors as they are consistent. As far as use, doors are more important than windows. Put your money into the doors and be "fussy" about installation and easy operation or you will always regret it.