This discussion is old but still showed up in the 1st page of goggle. Centra is high quality, you can get 3/4" plywood with the center ply MDF for the best quality stability/strength. Centra is excellent quality and customer service. Also, if you need a couple of custom pieces, you get access to Mouser's Premier line without having to switch the whole order to custom. Full disclosure, I sell Mouser, it's just like Woodmode/Brookhaven. After dealing with their customer service for years, I can say they are real experts. especially for higher-end things like appliance panels and mitered panels with returns. These are not the cheapest cabinets because you buy Ameican. They now have a lot of modern styles, which they were slow to add. They now have the skinny Shaker in quarter-sawn oak like in the most popular Houzz kitchen video. PS - We're in the NY metro area and we sell 99% Eurostyle.

Prices: If I had gotten Mouser's frameless line, the price would have been similar to or less than Kraftmaid's full-overlay framed cabinets from Lowe's/HD (all plywood construction and painted cabinets for both. Kraftmaid has a much higher upcharge for painted cabinets). Mouser inset cabinets were the same price as Medallian/Schuler full-overlay framed cabinets (again, both all plywood and painted). Woodmode was much more expensive.

I had four quotes for cabinets and all their drawings looked like what I had already but without the soffit as I am keeping the same layout. I had to add more drawers and tweak each of the drawings. I got quotes and then when the installation became too much last year, I held off to allow me more time to decide what will be my budget. I installed the recessed lighting myself and now I want to see other options with hiring my own installers. I never paid the people for their time as it was their job. No one pays me for estimates as it is my job and sometimes it is time consuming. One cabinet store really got me upset wasting my time as he would not even give me a ballpark price but told me he would be so reasonably priced and his price came to more than the Home Depot $33,000 install price for my 12 X 14 kitchen that did not include the tiles or the appliances as I have them here already. He should have paid me waisting my time as he promised that since he was a referral the price would be fair. The cabinets he chose for me to keep the price down were not even the style I wanted but he said the other cabinets I liked were too much. I do not want to pay way too much as I am in a townhouse in a very nice neighborhood surrounded by very beautiful houses but it is still a townhouse and someone will be willing to pay a little more for my townhouse if I sold but not so much more so I need to make sure I am upgrading to what I love within a budget so I can enjoy my kitchen. I have no idea how long I will be here but I love my home and neighborhood. I bought high end appliances (The kitchen Cafe Range instead of a cheaper stainless steel range) in my opinion compared to what others were buying in my neighborhood but I did it for myself as I want to enjoy my appliances. But I understand wanting to give this woman a gift for her time or some kind of compensation but you are not obligated to do so. I did give a gift to the Home Depot designer as I felt bad that the installation price was way too much for cabinets that I did not love but he worked hard on getting me what I wanted with most of the work being done by me with all the changes but still he spent time. Please keep us updated.

About 10 years ago we used Bertch's Legacy cabinets in the remodel of a condo that we owned at the time. I believe the cabinets were natural birch. We were very satisfied with them and there were no issues for the 5 years we owned the unit. I have no idea if the quality of the cabinets is the same now as it was then. This is how they looked