Update: I ended up choosing the Prelude line, upgraded to all plywood boxes, and with hardware upgrades (soft close, etc.). While the shaker style wasn't as great as the Reflections (the drawers are slab rather than 5 piece), since it's for a summer cottage I decided I could live with that. We have a small kitchen and with all the Lowes instant discounts, and sale, the cabinets came to approx. $5000(with tax and freight). This also includes the "premium finish" of white painted. The Diamond reflections line, with all plywood box, came to about $7500. So, it was an easy decision. The sale at Lowes included instant discounts of $400, $800, $1200, etc. depending on how much the total was, a Diamond promotion that included a free sink base and premium finish for buying 10 or more cabinets, and also a mail-in rebate of 10% for a visa gift card (good for anywhere, not just Lowes). So I will be getting a $470 gift card as well, bringing my total down to about $4500! While this was still quite a bit more than the Ikea cabinets we were considering, we decided it was worth it since the only Ikea is about 4 hours away (we wanted to avoid multiple trips) and our contractor had never installed Ikea. Seemed like headaches were in the offing and it just wouldn't be worth it. The only bummer with the Prelude line was that the base lazy susan cabinet was not great - low sides on the lazy susan and no options for upgrade, and built in a "barrel" style. Really didn't like it, but again, seemed like a worthwhile trade-off, since it's not our full-time kitchen, but a shared summer cottage. The KD at Lowes was really great. He priced it out several ways, and even worked the system a bit for the Reflections line (even though I ended up not going with it.) He added "furniture ends" to my end cabinets which brought the price up, but also bumped us up to the next level of instant discount (another $400 off), actually saving money over not having the premium ends! I'll update again when they get installed!

Low spec American is by far better than cheap RTA imports that are thrown together in some warehouse. You’re not getting anything close to inset on a 8K budget. Triple that figure, and you’ll be spending right at the average cost for mid grade full overlay cabinets for a redo. Inset would be more. It’s for an upper end redo where the cabinets average 45K.

Does anyone here have Mantra or Diamond Vibe kitchen cabinets? I know they are lower end cabinets but was wondering how they look installed and how they hold up over time. Thanks!

We recently ordered bath cabinets from Diamond to be painted ”White”. We are trying to coordinate countertops, flooring, and wall color before they come in and would really like to know the color, too. I couldn’t get an answer from Customer Service. She just kept claiming it was Sherwin-Williams ”White”, of which there is no such color (I have the full color deck). Anyone know the actual color, or what the closest colormatch is??? Thank you!