Hi - well, I think the good news is, from what you described, you have a lot of choices that would look good in that space. I think it would be more of a matter of what matches the rest of your decorating style in the rest of the house. You say you have traditional/formal - so you wouldn't want to go modern. I will say that I find that the painted wood cabinets bring down the formalness a notch - they can look very dramatic with glazes and such (look at Teppy's finished kitchen thread here on page 1), but wood is always more traditional, I think. I just wanted to also say that I am changing our foot print (not the worst space, but definitely a challenge), and yes, it's taken me a while. I won't say so much that I have been in analysis paralysis, but it was like a puzzel, and I had to figure out how all the pieces where going to fit together. I also had to think a little out of the box - deciding to take down part of a load bearing wall, for example. Go with what appeals to you - you won't regret it.

I never had glides before! So nice they are 'standard' now. I fretted but I don't regret it. That was a lot of money for a 12k cabinet budget kitchen. I dropped the island corbels to compensate - and used the counterbalance plates for support instead. It wasn't a wash but it was close enough. I would have never even thought about it until I was looking at the display and opening drawers. The one on the right didn't shut fully one time in the probably dozen times I opened it. The one on the left shut every time with the same pressure. Likely I'd have gotten used to pushing harder? I just didn't know if weight added would make it worse not better. Those were empty drawers. Waypoint in a very limited nutshell. My Waypoint are in an office so the 'cabinets' are different, I have never looked through their catalog to see what they offer as far as dimension flexibility so I can't speak to that. In fact, I didn't really look at them at all. We were moved in and there was stuff everywhere, I just wanted it done (read can this build process JUST.BE.OVER???????). It's a desk that primarily I use so I wasn't too worried about any of it. I took a couple little finish samples home and chose one. I didn't look at them as a brand in detail when I was kitchen shopping so I don't know the particulars on construction or paint/stain at all. DH installed them so he said they were 'decent' but he could tell a difference in them, not as heavy perhaps? I'd have to ask. I think finish and hardware for heavy use. So the finish is aesthetic but the hardware no. The cabinet boxes may be just fine. The kitchen cabinets get used far more by everyone than any of our other cabinets in the house. There is a knee/pencil drawer, a stack on the left with one drawer and a door and a 2 drawer on the right for hanging files that comprises the 'desk'. That's it. I didn't even look at a catalog or brochure. The glides are nice. They are smoothy and do shut the first time. Not sure on the brand, I can check. They are stained, the finish isn't completely consistent. The knee drawer noticeably 'off' a bit from the rest. So from the get go I guess I'd say finish isn't as nice. Does that make them less durable as far as construction? Probably not but I didn't investigate them. Less durable in finish? Perhaps but I don't know, I have never seen a full painted sample display. Go look at some side to side and you can see the difference in finish. I know I'm not really explaining it well but you can just see it. Kitchen specific: for reference, I can put a box of baggies in my top drawers of my Shiloh - no way in the Waypoint I have but it's not a 3 or 4 drawer stack so I'm not positive it wouldn't be different. Really no way in the Homecrest, even more shallow yet. In the kitchen, I wanted as much flexibility as possible and didn't want the top drawer height to completely dictate what went in there? So that was important to me. My kraftmaid cabinets had a really shallow top drawer too. We had them in a kitchenette in our old house. Shiloh paint - at one time I did know but too many details and too long ago. I read and read and read........ I think their website explains it. I think FACTORY applied paint holds up better. That is what I remember from all my reading. I went with a brand level and then looked further to what each in that 'class' for lack of a better word offered. For example, Shiloh doesn't charge near as much as others to finish the inside of a cabinet. I have an open cab with the MW in it and wanted one cab with glass. They were affordable for that, others were not. Miles apart. It's crazy how different they all can be for seemingly the same thing. I hope that was helpful.

Ashley, I don't know, we can only speak from our experience and the way the companies current quality and service. We got Painted 410F Full Plywood. As for full plywood construction, this was also a lie. The backs are made from fiberboard, and not even MDF, some kind of strand board. The shelfs are also made from a low-quality strand board and many of ours have defects. We also went through the supplier / showroom as that is the only way to purchase waypoint products with a warranty (Which is worthless in our case). We are going on 16 months without a kitchen now as the cabinets are still not fully installed / missing parts. Some of the drawers had only 1 soft close shock on one side, some other had none for 2 drawers and 1 drawer that has them. Total lack of quality control. That is what we get for buying an American made brand. As many doors show seams or poor paint coverage as doors that are correctly made. Installers cracked 3 or 4 of the cabinets or maybe it was shipping and so far, we do not have replacements after over a year. We cannot complete our kitchen and may be forced to sell our house at a huge financial loss as I'm tired of playing camping with plastic tables setup in the living room for a microwave and air fryer oven we purchased months in as it appears we may never have our problem resolved by waypoint. These shady companies are the kind of installers / retailers Waypoint associates themselves with. We are currently shopping for lawyers that might be able to help, us, but it appears it would be as expensive to sue them as it would be to take the $28000 loss on the cabinets. At this point I would rather the lawyer get paid than the waypoint retailer though. I cannot even pay for / order any of the missing or damaged parts directly from waypoint as you must go through the installer who is not supporting us since he already has our money. So even after they refuse warranty, I cannot order replacement parts. This basically means that we need to tear out all the cabinets and start over with another brand. American Woodmark is the parent company, and I will never purchase American Woodmark, Shenandoah, PCS, Timberlake, Waypoint, Allen+Roth, or Hampton bay products again. Chinese Cabinets have better QC than Waypoint and are much much cheaper. I should have just bought Ikea cabinets and installed them myself. At least I would have a working kitchen by now. Stay away from Waypiont Cabinets and any retailer associated with this brand.

What did you end up using?