Our local lumbar yard reps local cabinet manufacturers. Seems way better quality for similar price. Better customer/knowledge service for sure.

I guess I need to add that buying from a local cabinet maker is not an option budget wise. The local ones here are 3x the price of box stores. Would love to shop local but it’s just not in the budget for what I need

Are you able to DIY? Is there an Ikea in your area? If yes and yes, have you checked out ikea sektion already?

Closest IKEA is about 8 hours away. Could do some DIY if needed to

We put home depot cabinets in two previous homes and had no problems with either of them. I don't remember the brands though. Our current house we have RTA Conestoga and love them if you are willing to do the assembly.

IKEA will deliver and it can be cost effective for a big kitchen cabinet purchase. You probably won't find everything you need in-stock or available at the store, anyway. Many items are delivery only. We bought last year and basic in-home delivery was $119 but it may have gone up since then.

Have you actually priced out a dealer vs a box store for equivalent cabinetry? Where do you live? I'm in the Midwest and we are VERY competitve with box stores. If fact, most of the time, my clients say we are LESS.

Also a good designer can save you tons in screw ups. It's not always about price. And I highly doubt the price difference is 3x more....if you make sure to quote everything the same.

Make sure both price a similar quality brand, same amount of moldings, similar doorstyle and drawer front style. Full overlay or partial? Veneer doors or solid?

very helpful, thank you everyone!

Your "salesperson" needs to have plenty of experience as the measure, design, fit & overall success of the project are in their hands. Prefer independent dealer owner/operator/designer that measures in person, uses the design as the contract, not a detailed parts list that means nothing. watch out for to good to be true "sale" and vouchers for stuff that isn't priced well.

KM - decent project, turned out nicely after 3rd oven column delivery, multiple door replacements, more parts. First shipment was on time (approx 6 weeks) but overall it took many months to install, stop, order parts, install, etc. some due to designer that really didn't know their stuff. I didn't meet until they had their money.

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We used a local company that was priced not too much more than HD but could fully customize everything. took awhile to find - we priced our layout out at probably a half dozen locations and many were super expensive. our neighbors used KM and were perfectly happy with quality and i agree they look nice/seem sturdy. they bought during some big HD sale and spent probably half of what we did. Can’t argue with that!