Cabinets - Chinese, Custom, Semi, & TV Fairyland
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Any complaints about RTA chinese cabinets?
Comments (16)Don't buy chinese kitchen cabinets!!! These cabinets contain up to 100% more formaldehyde than american manufacturers are allowed to use. The formaldehyde content is so high that in three years it breaks down the glue in the plywood and the plywood delaminates. I have witnessed this as I used to assemble these cabinets. Many of these plywood sides were already delamanated before they left the shop. When I would get a splinter it would get infected quickly. I also contracted a skin disorder that I can't identify or get rid of. Over two million children die in China in a year from leukemia and cancer due from the exposure to the formeldahyde. If you have these cabinets and can't replace them, keep the room cool as heat releases formeldahyde at a faster rate....See MoreIs there an imported chinese cabinet that is acceptable?
Comments (63)See if there's a J&K dealer near you. They are what they are. This one is a bit better quality cheap chinese cabinet brand. Plywood, soft close all. RTA or assembled. But the one thing you must remember is their cabinets are full overlay with very little room for error. Once had an over the range microwave that had bowed sides a bit and when you would open the cabinet doors, they would rub the microwave. These are so full overlay, they're practically like frameless. No room for error. I now design w/ doors opening AWAY from appliances, tall cabinets, walls..or else use fillers to prevent rubbing. My installers have been with me for 35 years and they were impressed with the quality of J&K. Downsides? Limited SKU's and sizes, only give you 24 hours to report concealed damage and the extreme full overlay design. If you're ok with that....then this brand can work well with people on a budget....See Morevalinsv-questions about tv cabinet
Comments (3)Yes, it is what I'd call semi-custom, by a company that specialized in making entertainment units. We were able to chose the dimensions, as well as the number of drawers/shelves, wood type, door style, hardware and finish. The console is actually maple with a stain that goes with our cherry cabinets in kitchen. Dimensions are 32Hx21Dx70L. There is nothing that special about the size of the drawers/shelves--we were most concerned about the overall size of the piece and as long the width of the shelves accomodated our largest component we were fine. As the trend in components tends towards smaller we were not too worried. What is actually very convenient is the drawers which are 5" deep full extension and made just deep enough to fit both CDs and DVDs. We saw other units with plastic slots, but given the way technology changes, we didn't want anything made for a specific media type. Also handy are the adjustable shelves which gave us the versatility to store the speaker there as well so switching over to the grille no only improved the ventillation for the components overheating but more also allows the sound though while obsuring the less attractive speaker. Excuse the dust, but you can get the idea: At the time we did it, it was made for a different spot in our FR and choose the height so that it would extend beneath some windows to either side as well as be a good viewing height for the TV as my DH prefers to look straight at the TV and not have to crane your neck up (reason why he prefers not to have it wall mounted though I know many prefer it that way). After we first switched it to the full height wall, I wished we'd gone with one that has a hutch top and even explored the option briefly of getting one made--however, there was not enough room for ventillation for our 46" TV so we scraped the idea. I ended up adding the ceramic urn and dried branches to obscure the less than attractive side view. Now, I am glad we did not get a hutch top as I think consoles are much more versatile with the ever changing technology. My DH works at Sony and likes to add various gadgets so this works well for us. If I were to do it over, the only thing I think I'd change is to have a darker finish. Other than that we are quite happy with it....See MoreCustom cabinets really cheaper than stock?
Comments (47)I still would bet any amount of money that most people on here who say they have custom cabinets that were locally made are not anymore custom made then anyone else who bought cabinets from Lowes or Home Depot. Good grief!! Dave, you may know your lines but you haven't read enough threads on this forum if you think that. My cabinetmaker and I poured over my initial drawings. He told me he could make anything if it was made out of wood. Same price for standard cases and my heart's desire. He prices by the kitchen. I said, "No, I want it this way," and he made it. I said I was allergic to VOC's so couldn't have them in the processing or adhesives of the wood, so he sourced ultra low to zero VOC plywood for the boxes, bamboo for the fronts and varnish for the finish. I said I didn't want little cabinet doors above the coolers, so he found heavy duty flip up hardware that would take the weight. I knew that flip down hardware was available for the table, and he concurred, but I didn't want the bamboo to be horizontal so I found sunflower seed husk board and he made the flip down table out of that. We went round and round on inches. I wanted every inch of counter space I could get, so he reduced the frames for the ovens, and I nixed his desire for symmetry on the spice rack. He and my tile setter had many discussions of exactly what height to reach the windows for a flush installation, and how to finish the tops of the cabinets. He put in flush plywood, on a misunderstanding (it was meant to be flush boards, I guess), so he routed channels in it as you can probably see above. He created aprons to cover the undersides of the sinks, and cutouts for the services. He created bamboo moldings which the chief installer, who has a reputation for perfection, matched as much as is humanly possible, to the cabinetry. He created bamboo veneers wherever the plywood would show, and has an edge banding machine for veneering the shelf edges, which I would have been fine with having as exposed plywood. He wanted to use it on the fronts as well, but I convinced him that the bamboo core was pretty and it only needed to be finished. I won a convert. He made me custom shelves from the bamboo with just the edge treatment I requested, and designed little feet to hold up the bottom one where there wasn't enough room between the shelves and the cabinet for one of my decorative brackets. He made the drawer boxes to my particular specifications. I measured my stuff and figured out exactly what I wanted, and that's what I got. When I wanted more pullouts for my pantries he made extra. I also wanted Arlosmom sideways pullouts where I have true blind corners, and he figured out how to make them roll on the shelves rather than being attached to the cabinet sides, so the shelves are adjustable. In the cabinet which was thereby too wide, I said I'd be fine with a stile but I wanted it that wide to be useful to me, and he figured out......See Morefunkycamper
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