I ordered the sample cabinet in walnut (with varnish) as well as sample doors in cherry and QS oak. They are really lovely, although for my purposes the cherry and oak are too light without a stain. I had thought someone already posted a photo of the walnut but if anyone is interested I'm happy to do it. I'm not remotely handy, but my kitchen is small and I figure if I'm capable of doing Ikea assembly, then I should at least take a shot at something with similar requirements but what has to be higher quality. All the real work on our kitchen will be done by professionals, but I've got to keep the costs reasonable, and Barker seems like a huge win-win in that respect.

pseudochef, It is hard to get a good representation of what the insides look like with the lighting in my kitchen but here is what I was able to get with my iphone of the only cabinet left empty: The inside is their standard maple finished plywood and the shelves and cabinet box are banded in whatever wood you get for the doors The right side of the cabinet in the second picture is one of Barker's finished end pieces. They have them in the slab style that we bought as well as a style that looks like a cabinet door. On the left side of that cabinet is one of their filler strips and under it is their light valance. If you are going to use their valance make sure you order too much, I ordered just enough and now have to wait for another piece to finish my last cabinet like grlwprls said the drawers boxes are top notch. The dove tail is tight and sanded smooth and the blum glides are awesome. So easy to put in and I can't stop playing with the soft close. According to their site they just recently upgraded the drawer glides to blum's top of the line. We got the standard baltic plywood drawer boxes. If you get the clear coat, like we did, they will come coated like the rest of the cabinet. Definitely don't hesitate to email Chad, he is great, I must have sent him 30 emails over the last two months and he never seem to get annoyed. KBSpider; we were going to do maple as well and that is the sample cabinet we ordered, but decided to go a bit darker. Definitely don't regret the decision. This post was edited by sevngang on Tue, Mar 5, 13 at 20:47

If you are willing to make the trip to Hartford CT area, I can assist. Note, I have sprayed my own cabinets to save about $2K...

Curious if you ever posted your other thoughts on Barker cabinets, and would you be willing to share a pic of your finished kitchen? In the remodel process and considering Barker painted white shaker doors, so I'd love to see how your space turned out!