I believe it may be too early to notice a difference in workmanship during Covid times. We are ordering Shiloh for our new home build, but they will not be ready until 2021. I hope we do not have any issues. I toured a brand new Shiloh kitchen a couple of weeks ago and they looked great! I even opened several cabinets and drawers.

I cannot compare pricing, but I do know that our KD dropped the Medallion brand from her business. I am meeting her today, so I will try to remember to ask her why.

Where is your Kitchen Designer here? Your Kitchen Designer should be advising you on all of this. Unless you’re working with cabinet pushers trying to sell you whatever makes them the most money.

We recently installed KM cabinets we purchased last summer in a bathroom for 9' of vanity. They went in fine (i.e., no out of square or alignment issues), and the finish looked good.

Why are you comparing all of those different quality levels of product?

These are the brands I'm looking at as well and have the same question as you do. Which did you end up choosing?

None of the kitchen designers around me carry *all* of those brands. So I'm not sure who to turn to other than here to see about which brands really are best. I feel like because of this, I need to chose a few brands first based on research, and then find kitchen places that carry them. Otherwise I'll get stuck funneled into just the brands the kitchen design place carries!

In general, a lot of posts on here are very old and, pandemic aside, it seems like the cabinet industry (like many industries) has seen a number of shifts and changes in the last few years. It can be hard to assess where things are now in reality vs what people remember about a brand from a long time ago. And the pandemic just blows everything up beyond that. Some are sure to be handling it better than others, yes?

@User - It's hard to tell, even after reading a lot of Houzz posts, just how far apart in quality these lines are. If I had to guess based on reading it'd go Vantage, Shiloh, Medallion Gold, and then Dynasty. Does that align with your thinking? But how wide of a quality gap are we talking about? For instance, there's a lot of complaints about Dynasty's paint finish lately. Is it really a huge leap in quality back to medallion gold in overall quality? Or a smaller difference with an intricate balance with cost to consider?

Personally, I agree with @lisachew5 that these are all brands to consider. They each seem to have good aspects based on reading here. I'm very much considering all of them and, based on posts here and other reading, think they are all worthy of consideration! But it is extremely hard to tell - without going to *multiple* kitchen design places and such - which brand strikes the right personal balance of quality and cost. I'd much rather do some research on my own first before running around the wider area exhausted.

Omega quality is way above any of the lower brands.

Coffee Drinker,

I ended up going with the Kraftmaid Vantage but they haven’t been installed yet. I chose them for 2 reasons. Our builder has a relationship with a Kraftmaid dealer so if there are any issues we have back up and the second reason is that i wanted a specific paint color which I could get color matched through Kraftmaid. On that same note, to anyone who is considering trying to color match, the sample of the white we were trying to match is very close but the dark color we were trying to match looked totally different. Unfortunately you have to pay quite a lot for those samples. Better to lose the money than to have the wrong color cabinets, I suppose. Good luck with your decision!

Michael - We do not yet have them installed. Check back at the end of July and I can let you know. We have read good things about them, and my KD likes to use them. I have seen them in her showroom.