I had Homecrest cabinets installed the beginning of this year. I have been really happy with them! If you need any specifics, feel free to ask me. Here is a picture of my kitchen.

You have a beautiful kitchen, Patti. Your cabinets look like the Arbor style. We're considering Arbor in oak or the Bayport in a medium hickory. Did you get the laminated drawers or the dovetailed drawers? Do you have any rollout shelves? Shiloh offers them with adjustable top rollouts. I don't know if that would be useful to me or not. What is the height of your wall cabinets? Our builder used 30 inch in the model home, but I want at least 36 inch.

My cabinets are the Sedona in caramel maple. I have the dovetailed drawers. I have one rollout base next to my range, and my pantry has rollouts. My cabinets are 36 inch. My old kitchen before remodel had 30 inch, and what a difference the 36 inch makes. I also have quite a few drawers, which I absolutely love. I have a lot of pictures, so if you want to see something specific, let me know.

I'm also planning on mostly drawers in the base cabinets. I guess the rollout base is for your pots and pans. Do you think a rollout is better than a drawer to hold your pots and pans? I'm going to have a pantry built in the corner of the kitchen; so I won't have a cabinet pantry. One big plus about the HomeCrest line is that they are made here in Indiana. Shiloh is made in Missouri. We've been to two cabinet shops so far, but neither one had a good display set up with the HomeCrest. The quality does look pretty good to our untrained eyes. When our local cabinet man began pushing us more toward Shiloh, we got confused. I guess we'll be confused a lot in the coming months.

I do keep my pots and pans in the rollout. My KD desiginated one of the drawers in my island for pots and pans, and I tried putting them there, but I like the roll out better. The handles can hang over the edge of the rollout, whereas in the drawers, they take up room. That plus the fact the rollout is next to my range. A lot of people on this forum use their drawers for pots and pans, so maybe you could post a question as to how they like them.

We are in the process of a total remodel of our kitchen. We had Homecrest Cabinets for 15 years and they held up very, very well. The finish and construction looked nice even as we removed them We sold them on Ebay and the gal who bought them was thrilled.

That's a great endorsement for HomeCrest Cabinets vwhippiechick. I'm guessing you're going with another brand for your remodel. I still have to schedule a meeting with the cabinet people and see exactly what bells and whistles are available with HomeCrest. Their website didn't show as many as some other cabinet makers. I'll probably keep the kitchen pretty simple anyway. Since we've downsized our home, the kitchen isn't as large as what I had hoped. I'm at that age when cooking is becoming less important. Early bird specials are more appealing. LOL

LOL too! We are going with Mouser. They are made here in KY. We wanted an inset door and Homecrest didn't offer that option. I think the line we had was on the low cost end as our house was flipped by a neighbor just before we bought. But I was surprised that they held up beautifully both in appearance and function. We considered keeping them in the new scheme but it would have limited some other choices, like the size of the range, the location of dishwasher etc. We use our stuff pretty gently. But we had them for a long time and now they are going to a new home.

Does using pretty gently mean that you also prefer the Early Bird Specials? We're looking at HomeCrest's Bayport series in hickory. It's a simple beadboard design.

I didn't think of it that way but now that you mention it . . . ;-)

Did you end up going with Shiloh or HomeCrest??

We installed the HomeCrest over 7 years ago. They're holding up very well. I'm very glad that I used mostly drawers for the base cabinets. They really have a lot more storage than regular base cabinets.

Homecrest is a builder line. Shiloh is a step up and also offers inset. Both are good cabinets for their price point.

Thank you so much for responding!! I am considering drawers as well. :) By any chance are the inside of the cabinets peeling away?? I read a review that said that was a problem... Have you had any issues with installation or quality at all? How is customer service...have you ever had to deal with them?

@Kitchen Place...inset?

No, the drawers are not peeling inside. We have HomeCrest throughout the whole house. We also have them in the basement bathroom and have a kitchenette down there. A few months after installation, some of the kitchen drawers needed adjustments. It was done very quickly. My husband just pointed out that one of the 36" drawers is off a little bit, but I had not noticed it myself. The drawer holds pots and pans; so the weight probably caused a little bit of settling. We did not buy the cabinets directly from the factory. We used a small local cabinet company as the go between; so I cannot say how working with the factory is. I don't know if you can even buy factory direct or not. One mistake I made was having a corner sink because that was how the builder designed the kitchen. That row of cabinets is L shaped and there is a lot of wasted space in that 90 degree angle. In order to use it, I would have to literally crawl under the sink to reach things back there. All in all, we are happy with all of the cabinets. I do wish I had more. Seems there is never enough space in cabinets or closets after you're in a house for a few years. Good luck with your cabinet hunting.