As a long-time kitchen designer I believe the All Wood Cabinets are made in China. Sometimes they come CKD--or complete knock down which means your installer has to assemble them. There are many finish issues. I am Kitchen Design Editor for How We Live magazine and Google! I am more than happy to answer direct questions about quality and price. Please go to my site and on the contact page you can 'Ask the expert'. Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.designsbymichael.net

Allwood is made in china with carrb 2 compliance and assembled in florida. All wood has a lot of indpendent dealers that sell it also. Costco sells it a good margin that makes it profitable for a local dealer to match their price. It drives me nuts their wall cabinets are made for top mount crown molding. It is much more difficult to install when the the molding is supposed to touch the ceiling. There is not space to float it for the high's and lows of the ceiling. I have an account with them and 6 Square but do not like to promote them. Their quality is not near as good as 6 square and as mentioned 6 square has many more cabinet sizes. I have decided as a independent store owner to not sell 6 square either as they do not have all the sizes you need and people just get confused that you can not get every color in every door style. I have all my sample mounted on walls in a selection like room and am constantly saying to people well this you can get in any color this you can not. This you can get some etc. It becomes a pain to teach everyone the differences between all the companies. I have a kitchen I am finishing up that has been on hold to install for a year. In that time all wood has decided to charge extra for finished ends and now adds a 1/4" panel on the side in florida and calls it flush. One cabinet we ordered after the original set was ordered has this factory applied finished end and it is a terrible job. I would have thought someone physically handicapped would have put it on. If you are looking for value I do not think they offer it. The box construction is good but everything else is a pain in my opinion. 6 square and allwood prices are fairly similar. The raised panel cherry door style from 6 square has been more expensive on quotes I have done then going with a custom company I work with. If you are looking for a better price go with standard overlay cabinets with plywood construction and the price will be better then what you are paying for in 6 square and all wood. To me it is better to have all the available sizes of a good semi custom company then mess around with a constrained line that has limited sku's and limited styles and colors. That is just my 2 cents.... If you really want a low price and a nice look River Run is a good choice.If you are in the North East Wolf is another brand that can be less expensive. Fabuwood has a lower price if you find someone who will sell them unassembled at a low mark up. The increase in price to All wood and 6 Square is not worth it over a larger portfolio of semi custom. I have worked with a lot of cabinet companies in the last few years looking for the silver bullet in cost to only decide price is so relative you can not have the best price on every product every time and you just chase your tail. I personally have concluded what works for me...... I was pricing a kitchen out the other day that got me chasing an account with conestoga RTA which turned out to not be a good price to me as a dealer. Entry level products: Wolf Classic and River Run had dealer cost of about 2.5k 6 Square and All wood would classify as stock line here between entry level and semi but the price would be closer to the semi custom price. I would expect it to be 3. something k Semi custom products: Brandom had a dealer cost of about 3.9k my semi custom company even though I do not care for a lot of their colors... go figure I stick with them because the price is good and they turn out fairly consistent products from one delivery to the next. I signed up with Wellborn Forest last fall for example as I like thier colors and door styles better but have decided to forget them. Many of my orders have not shipped complete things are missing on the truck when the paper work states it should be there for example. They also have a very short build time which in theory is nice but in the real world their quality control is lacking to be polite to say the least. Custom Products Touchstone Custom was 4.3k All wood and 6 square would have been close to the 3.9 k price but not had near the options that Brandom has. The book for all wood is approx 30 pages long. 6 square is closer to 100 with half of those being spread sheets for pricing. Brandom is approx 400 pages long and geppetto is over 800 pages long. It is not worth the hassle of never having the one thing you need in the design to personalize it per say. Conestoga RTA would not even give me a price that would match my Touchstone custom price which got me frustrated truth be told. As a dealer you do not know where the price of everything is just like you do not as the end user. Being a dealer is more difficult because you can not get access to the pricing and really decide what will work till after you sign up with them to make a go at it. Anyways I am not convinced I got a good price on Conestoga RTA but I have no way of knowing other then it does not match up to what companies pricing I already have. A Side note for all the Gw'rs on here that are conestoga RTA fans. Point being is that All wood and 6 Square have prices close to semi custom companies with not the options to really brag about. Price is always relative as one day I am the best deal people can find that I meet and other days my same prices with the same mark ups are not as good as alternatives in my area. The longer I have been in the kitchen business the more I have decided the constrained cabinet lines are more of a pain then a blessing for the dealer or the end user with a few exceptions.

the costco cabinets are made in china and warehoused in florida. The prices are pretty good. I can normally beat the price with my import products any day of the week. If you are going to buy Chinese from Costco be aware there are american made brands that will actually be less if you know which brand to get and who sells them. Chinese products get a bad wrap for the most part. Why is a Ikea cabinet praised on this board over and over and the Chinese cabinet is slammed over and over? I have 150 different cabinets from China and the Us I offer to my customers when the budget for the entire kitchen remodel is under 10k for all products appliances countertops and installation. Generally the Chinese will give you painted finishes with glazes and solid wood dove tail drawers and soft close full extension undermount rails in full overlay door styles for the cost of builder grade oak in American brands. Is there that much of a difference if a chinese man operates a huge steel machine to shape the wood or if a american man or woman operates an older version of that machine in the US? Many of the Chinese factories are more advanced with newer equipment than the US factories. I have many US cabinet makers that are just now becoming "CARB" compliant a California Air Resources Board standard. The chinese met the standard much faster then the US did many times. I am not stuck on either US or Chinese and realize that we as consumers need choices to match our own situations. More choices means lower prices for all the opposite of monopoly. That being said Costco is high end on the cost of chinese cabinets. Sunco and 6 Square both have the same business model if you want to compare prices after finding local dealers to your area. The doors and drawers are finished in China the rest is cut and assembled in the US facitlity for all 3 brands.

Maybe I am the only dealer in the world who cares about not charging to much and being in line with the competition but it amazes me that the posts on here state that costcos price is very good or an independent dealer was about the same price! Hello!!!! Allwood is stock cabinet company with not choice in stain color and you are willing to pay the same price for it as woodmark or shennadoah at Lowes or Home Depot? Both those brands have a Limited lifetime warrantee. The book for All wood is about 1/4" thick vs 1-2" thick for woodmark or shennandoah! You pay higher prices for more choices. Honestly Costco is a rip off or any other dealer selling it at the price of costco. Without monthly promotions factored in the price before promtional discount is 100% mark up! That is crazy. They are laughing at you all the way to the bank. I have some of the least expensive brands around to offer to my customers. I have been able to match the price of volume deals in cabinets to beat out Reico selling Merilat cabinets to a 300 unit apartment complex and offer a lifetime warrantee on the cabinets used as well as give painted maple at the price of maple stain in Merilat. I got a 10% discount from the factory and marked it up 10% from the normal price giving me a margin of 20% total. I can mark that same cabinet company up 50% and be about even with shennandoah and woodmark. It is tough to sell a RTA cabinet higher then 50% mark right now stay competitive. 100% on costco is insane! Do not assume that because costco sells it is cheap. Otherwise you are a fool. 6 square has more interesting colors and door styles particularly inset at the lowest prices in the nation. 6 square is a lower priced product as well. Sunco is also another company that sells their cabinets with the same business model.