That's what we did. We know of a semi-local shop (about 75 minutes away) that specializes in doors and drawer fronts, and drawer boxes, too, so used them for most of our cabinets, and DH did all our cabinet boxes, and some fill in of doors and drawer fronts when we made changes. We did our finishing, too. I used Waterlox on some, and DH sprayed others with BM Satin Impervo. Have you searched in your area for a shop that will do that for you? Or one further away that will ship?

We did get an estimate from one person that does order doors and drawer fronts for the cabs he makes. He had several catalogs he orders from to show us. Have you done a search?
I am sorry I don't feel I could call him to ask since we didn't use him.

My DH made our boxes & then we ordered the doors from Environmental Wood Products in Reidsville, GA. They did a beautiful job & were very reasonably priced.

Conestoga makes doors and other parts for cabinet makers. I think there are several commercial companies that source from Conestoga (such as Candlelight) and they also sell to retail.

I 2nd what sayde said. I am very happy with my doors, drawers and the finishes. Although we also ordered the wood rta cabinet boxes. This is not the cheapest company if you are leaning in the rta area, however, the quality is way up there.

Thanks so much for the responses. For those of you that ordered the doors and drawer/drawer fronts, did any of you order them already finished? And if so, did you try to match the rest of the cabinets? How did you handle that?

As you can see, we're at the very beginning of this process, but the only way that I think we can come in under budget is by doing a the cabinet mostly DIY - and that's OK, because we really like doing projects together. I just want to make sure that when we're finished, the kitchen doesn't LOOK DIY :) My husband is an excellent woodworker and makes furniture for the house frequently, so my only real concern of messing it up is the finishing.

Thanks again for your insight and if any of you have any pix of your finished kitchen where you ordered the doors, I'd love to see them.

Here's ours:

Here is a link that might be useful: or here's an album of the whole room

My cab maker used doors from this company....

http://www.keystonewood.com/index.shtml

Helene

I didn't do that, but when my mom refaced her kitchen I ordered a drawer from the Drawer Depot (www.drawerdepot.com or drawerbuilder.com--both links work), and it was very good, so she ended up ordering all her drawers and doors from them. They're very nice quality and a very reasonable price, and they're made in the USA. She got fully assembled dovetailed drawers, finished after assembly (so there are no rough edges), with soft-close slides. So basically, their highest-quality drawers (though she got a basic wood--you can choose all different kinds of wood for your items, and also other materials like melamine).

You have to be very precise in your measurements, obviously, because you tell the Drawer Depot folks exactly what size everything should be, so if the drawer doesn't fit it's your fault. They were easy to work with, though; after I placed the order I realized I needed to have the drawers rush shipped, and it was easy to get in touch with a human being and get the shipping changed. Also, they sent these cute automatic update emails every time the drawers completed a stage in the process--like, "Robert has just finished assembling your drawers, and now they will proceed to the next step, finishing!"--and there'd be a photo of, evidently, Robert, smiling with some drawers.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Drawer Depot

PS You can go through the entire ordering process on the Drawer Depot's website and find out immediately what it will cost--it shows up in your "cart." So you can see what the exact cost would be, before you order. Of course, to get the exact cost, you have to measure everything so you can fill in all the measurements. But if you don't want to measure everything yet, you can ballpark the measurements and get a pretty good estimate of the cost.

PPS My mom ordered prefinished drawers with bare fronts, and had her carpenter prime and paint the fronts so they perfectly matched her existing cabinet frames.

I see the Drawer Depot site has doors and drawer fronts, too.

Another good place to order drawers is linked below. We met these guys at a trade show and saw their work. Wonderful craftsmanship and quality.

Here is a link that might be useful: Western Dovetail, Inc

we were going to go that route but decided to use IKEA boxes to take advantage of the good hardware and we were easily able to make the sizes for us. We are ordering fronts probably from Scherrs but I will check out these other links for kicks!