Very beautiful! I've done a lot of rta, and disassembling cabinets I found or bought at a reuse center. Then, I had to put them back together. If I can do that, you can certainly put together cabinets that come in whole pieces with instructions! I have several Conestoga cabinets I was able to order. Beaded Inset, as a matter of fact. My love cabinets. :) They were simple. I ordered mine from The Cabinet Joint, where Brian spent hours on the phone with me, going over scanned and emailed pictures and drawings. Rick at the Cabinet Authority was also one of my victims. er, helpful sales people. Can't go wrong with either of them. Look, they're not inexpensive. But they can be made exactly to order and are excellent quality. I highly recommend both of these dealers and you'll not be paying a zillion $K. A suggestion is to read some of the threads on the merits of mdf boxes vs. plywood. You can do a combination, and don't forget you can also just order the face frames (if you're doing beaded) and doors, and if you're doing just plain inset, you can just buy the doors! There are a lot of ways to save money and get what you want . Christine

Hi, I started using Conestoga back in 2010 when Casey was about the only one here who had them. I was nervous but took the plunge. Love their RTAâÂÂs! In my last house my husband and I built this kitchen with full overlays. The finish was still perfect three years later when I sold. In the house IâÂÂm in now we are doing inset cabinetry in the master bath. One is not harder than the other to assemble. Although I buy my cabinets from Chad at Cabinetmakerschoice the cabinetjoint has the best Conestoga assembly videos.

Custom should mean that you can get what you want that mass production does not offer. Cabinets offered every 3 inches is a function of mass production over the last 40 years or so as cabinets have shifted to being made from outside sources and not by the carpenters who build the house. Most larger cabinet companies order their doors from companies like conestoga who only make doors at mass produced levels. Now conestoga makes them to any size if wanted. Your semi custom companies as a general rule build the cabinet boxes and do the finishing of the cabinet units. Semi Custom generally means they will modify the parts they build which means the face frames and the box size. So you can modify depth and add an extended stile where a filler would go otherwise. A custom company is supposed to mean in its pureist form that they do not have a book of generic sizes and instead they design and price a kitchen of any specs and build it. I personally prefer the abiltiy to work with larger companies that have more years of combined expeirence with more expensive equipment and longer warranty that is backed by the length of time the company has been around. I do not see the worry of how long the local retailer has been in business over warranty concerns when the warranty ultimately comes from the cabinet maker. Now, to be fair most large cabinet companies that are custom need something of a base line to allow a person in a showroom far from the cabinet plant to design and price a kitchen quickly. This creates the need for a product line you can work with as a designer. A book of standard sizes and configurations is needed as a baseline to work from. We end up with a long list of modifications that can be done to a cabinet to create the custom layout where the standard cabinets are modified in countless ways to create the perfect fit and still be able to arrive at a fixed price as a designer who is not an employee of the cabinet maker. I work with 2 companies that have books like this. Yet one is custom and one in my opinion is not even though they call themselves custom. Geppetto will build anything I can dream that is technically possible. Bridgewood will not. Both call themselves custom companies. One is highly modifable (Bridgewood) and one is custom Geppetto. When I meet someone that just needs the cabinets to fit just right with no fillers and wants a low price I use Bridgewood and the price is lower. When I meet someone who wants a lot of personalized look to the kitchen and needs inset door styles I use Geppetto. Hoods are another animal that is a pain. Stanicci makes nice hoods and many custom companies offer them. A true custom company will make the hood themselves with what ever look you like. Stanicci allows a designer to use a symbol on a drawing and in a 3d that has an exact price. I like a wood hood or a custom metal hood from Rangecraft hoods. Ultra modern chimney hoods just do not do it for me personally. To each his or her own I suppose. Inset door style is definetly more elegant when used with a nice finish. I think you have made the right choice.

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