Great product. Worth every penny. Will never ever be the cheap quote. But you get the value you pay for, if it fits your budget.

It is very high-end. In my area, real estate listings will specifically say "kitchen with Wood-mode cabinets" to indicate this home has an expensive kitchen. You can cut back on the price a bit by mixing in with Brookhaven, which is a Wood-mode company, but a bit less expensive.

Wood-mode used to just offer traditional framed cabinets, but now they have frameless as well, which I would choose for the extra space that frameless offers and the more current look. Just MHO.

The house I just bought has Wood Mode cabinets and they are lovely. I imagine they are pretty new. The house was gutted shortly before we bought it, so I can't speak to longevity. I am going to re-do the kitchen just a tiny bit (only re-doing the cabinet configuration- there are no drawers)- and will probably stay with Wood Mode, though I might switch to Crown Point- they are very tempting. I am having a hard time deciding which way to go, though.

ETA Is there a significant difference between the brands at this end of the scale?

Thank you. I'm in a HCOL area, so the cost is in line with the house
value. To me they just felt and looked like what cabinets used to
feel/look like years ago. I used to live in the northeast so I knew the
good brands from that area, but most of them are not available here in
CA.

I should get a plan and elevations today and final pricing. Wood-mode is having a promotion ending 9/30 that gets you upgraded finishes, etc at no additional charge.

Rita, as I mentioned I didn't find the brands I was used to and as far as what I saw here in CA, the other brands did not compare to WM, the boxes were similar specs, but the doors and the finishes looked so much nicer with WM.

There are lots of small "custom" cabinet shops here in LA and they make decent products, but due to the CA regulations/bans on many paint/stain/varnish components they can't achieve the durability of the finishes from an out of state manufacturer.

Thank you for the info, chipsa and ILoveRed. I am in CA as well (SF.)

"There are lots of small "custom" cabinet shops here in LA and they make decent products, but due to the CA regulations/bans on many paint/stain/varnish components they can't achieve the durability of the finishes from an out of state manufacturer."

that's very interesting, thank you so much for that info, chispa. Had no idea

April, a few years ago I happened to be at a TrueValue hardware store and saw a guy loading up his cart with some product/chemical. I kind of joked around that he was buying the store out. He told me he used the products in his business and CA was banning them, so he was buying all the remaining stock.

One of the cabinet guys I spoke to recently said they had stocked up on a certain type of stronger wood glue that was now also banned in CA. He also mentioned that some trades will travel to neighboring states to get these products.

So you have finishes that don't last as long, so you have to repaint something sooner or replace it and produce more waste ... which doesn't really save the planet in the long run! Feel good laws that really aren't thought through ...

Woodmode is how cabinets should be made and mostly aren’t. People get used to inferior builder cabinets as average cabinets and awful cabinets as builder cabinets. And they can’t tell the difference anymore because no one had wood shop in school. They don’t know that finishes are supposed to be sanded satin smooth and have depth. That’s not high end. That’s normal. Mostly people buy a lot of junk and rationalize it. Woodmode is not junk.

I'm going to get a price on them, just because I've read how nice they are and there is a shop near me that sells them. But I am quite prepared to say I can't afford them. :/

Chispa and Beth09, please post back when you get a quote, because we will be very interested to hear what it is, and what you get for that amount.

Will do.