I had Brookhaven cabinets in my last house. I had them for 5 years, and they looked the same as when they were new. Mine were maple with a painted finish, and they were a breeze to keep clean, with no chipping. I did have very slight hairline cracks at a few joints, but you had to look very closely to see them, and this is a normal situation with painted cabinets. I am redoing the kitchen in my new house, and I am using Brookhaven again. HTH

Our Brookhaven cabs have just been installed recently. As a matter of fact, yesterday was the final day of our renovation process! I love the cabs. The quality is very good (we have the Knotty Cherry) and the follow-up has been impressive. All cabinet doors and drawers come with BlueMotion, although the pull-out shelves and drawers that are behind any doors (for exapmple, in their pantry cab) do NOT have the BluMotion). I can't figure out why that is. Brookhaven also gives you a choice of a variety of pulls and knobs, that are free with your cab order.
At the moment, I'm very tired of construction in our home, but after life settles down again, we need to have the cabs in our 3 bathrooms replaced and we wouldn't hesitate to go with Brookhaven once more.

Our neighbors put in DeWils cabinets last year and are very happy with them. They're not so happy with the only dealer in town that carries them (which is why we ruled them out), but the cabinets themselves and the company behind them are good.

My kitchen is a mix of Brookhaven and Woodmode -- all frameless. The Brookhaven are painted white. The install began a little over a year ago, and we've been very happy with them. I didn't use the hardware that was included though.

Thanks, everyone, for your comments on Brookhaven cabinets. It all sounds very positive.

Thanks also to alku05 for telling me about your neighbor's good experience with DeWils cabinets. We have one DeWils dealer 25 miles away and another 45 miles away, and we are getting estimates from both. I have never gone so far afield to find dealers, but with the prices of cabinets as high as they are, all the advice on this forum indicates the more estimates, the better.

Our Brookhaven kitchen isn't finished yet but so far I love what I see. We chose a traditional look but did go frameless to maximize storage space.

I had an initial discomfort with the cabinet face material that is only seen when the cabinets are opened. It is not an exact match for the color of my stained/glazed cherry wood. (Bookshelves and glass-fronted cabinet do exactly match though. Not sure if this is standard or because of the way my contractor placed the order.) I don't notice it anymore though.

We did use the Brookhaven hardware. I don't think we chose the absolute highest priced stuff but I did learn that the hardware styles change regularly and some stuff gets discontinued. We got a couple of extra pieces our oil-rubbed bronze hardware and are using them on some built-in cabinets in our neighboring mudroom.

jayne

The Brookhaven interior is a laminate -- either a maple look or white. Mine are the maple look to be more like the Woodmode pieces I have. When my cabinets arrived, the interior of the Brookhaven boxes was less than thrilling, but mainly because the laminate pieces were sitting right next to my Woodmode pieces with the maple interiors. We did ask about switching to all Woodmode, but the interiors were only an issue with 4 wall cabinets and it would have been a total of nearly $8K to switch all the walls, bases, glass fronts and talls to Woodmode. Didn't seem worth it to us.