New Hagerstown Kitchen/Bath Cabinets Installed!

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

I just wanted to write and say that we are so happy with how our custom Hagerstown Kitchen and Bathroom cabinets and vanities turned out. They were installed a couple of weeks ago and the GC is almost finished with the trim work, then on goes the hardware.

Cabinets are inset, doors and drawers have soft closures, all Blum hinges and drawer tracks.

We have a small kitchen and small bathrooms so we really needed to maximize space and utilize every square inch, which is why we went the custom route.

We decided on a Benjamin Moore custom color, which the color and finish turned out better than we had hoped.

We looked high and low at cabinets options, ranging from semi-custom, to some of the more popular custom brands (Plain and Fancy, Quality Custom etc) to Amish made. In the end, it was our determination that the quality of the Hagerstown Kitchen and Bath cabinets was difficult to beat esp at the price point by comparison with some of the more popular custom made cabinets.

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8 years ago

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Okay here are a couple of not so great pictures... door hardware and some trim still needs to be installed as does the stainless backsplash behind the range.

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weeniedesigner
8 years ago
Hi,

Are you in Hagerstown, Maryland? I just bought a house in Mt. Airy and we need to gut the kitchen. I think (hope) we found a good GC and we are just now researching kitchen cabinets. We haven't actually gone to look at any yet.

If you don't mind, may I ask some questions? If you don't want to respond, no worries, I understand.

-did you get a name brand cabinet or do they actually build their own?

-did they have a kitchen designer that could help? I need serious help, no creativity.

-what were the price ranges of the cabinets you looked at and the ones you purchased? I am on a budget and I can't find online prices anywhere. I don't want to go somewhere that is totally out of my price range. I've done that before and it was quite humiliating.

I'd really appreciate any information you are willing to share.

Thank you,

Kelly
Nothing Left to Say
8 years ago
Glad you are so pleased! Pictures?
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8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
weenie, not in Hagerstown, we are in Annapolis.

Hagerstown is a custom builder, they build their own cabinets. We did not use a kitchen designer as we generally knew what we wanted and they put it on paper. However they did provide some suggestions. They do have their own in-house kitchen designer/sale rep that can help you put your ideas on paper and help to come up with solutions and designs.

Pricing is all dependent on the size of the kitchen, level of detail you want in your cabinet, wood species, features etc, so what we paid will not necessarily represent what you will pay. I will say that we were able to get kitchen cabinets and two bath vanities (one is a double and cherry, the other is single) for approx. +/-20% less than what we would have spent at Plain and Fancy or the like which only included their basic cabinet box and hardware. Pricing is more in line with some of the Amish builders recommended on here and was a hair above a semi custom builder like Jim Bishop, but the quality is exponentially better.

Hagerstown does offer a semi custom line if costs for their custom line prove to prohibitive. They are worth considering, you might be surprised.
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8 years ago
We will get some pictures up soon, our house is still very much a construction zone :(
Nothing Left to Say
8 years ago
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
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8 years ago
Thank you crl, it's still very much a construction zone - it's been a long 8 weeks. I will certainly follow-up some better pics to include he bathroom vanities once the work is all done - if that day ever comes.

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