I have them.
I love them.
I would buy them again.

Just finished my kitchen. They are beautiful to look at and beautifully made. I would highly recommend them to anyone. My Brookhaven dealer was a pleasure to work with (in NYC). Not a SINGLE piece came in damaged. Literally, nothing, they were perfect on delivery. We needed a couple extra things - extra piece of crown, 1 foot on the hutch was just made backwards (no big deal) and they sent them easily. It came with a side panel for the fridge - it was a slab (never thought to ask). Decided it would look better with the full cabinet details - they sent that at no charge.

What I would do over again...more drawers like everyone else says. I like the symetry of my cabinets and drawers, but more drawers, instead of pull outs, are easier. I love the sink tip out. I love the over the oven dividers, and the under the wall oven drawer. Probably would have been fine getting an aftermarker spice rack - it's just white wire. Also, I have 3 drawers with dividers. 2 are fine, but my husband had to alter the main cutlery one because the dividers left too much space for each utensil. I did not pay per each of these things, it was all lumped together, so I don't know how much I would have saved.

And OMG - the supper susan's with the magic close doors is amazing. It's the first thing we show everyone because it's so cool. We ended up having our island custom made (long story). When the 2 owners/builders came on Monday to deliver it they were looking at my cabinets, commenting on how well they were made and what great hinges. Oh, and the main builder said he has been looking everywhere for the super susans and can't find them.

Go for it - you will be so happy.

Here is a picture:

I'm surprised you haven't found discussion of them. I guess the folks like me who have talked and talked about them haven't' been talking recently enough. I have a mix of Woodmode and Brookhaven in different finishes (my island and hutch are a "Woodmode only" finish and I love it). My pantry tower pullout is also a Woodmode and I liked the hardware used in it much better than the Brookhaven -- and there was a width difference (12 vs 15 inches).

There really isn't anything I can think of that I don't like about either -- and the only problem I've had with a cabinet was the interior of the sink base in my island. The plumber didn't connect something completely and we had a leak under the sink. the area where the base was cut for the plumbing pipes bubbled around the cutout. I had a similar issue with the larger sink (Brookhaven sink base -- the faucet pullout hose loosened and dripped before I discovered it). It did not have any problems with the cabinet. Different plumbing and different cuts, but the plywood reacted to moisture quicker than the particle board. I wouldn't worry at all about the differences in construction.

Oh -- there are a couple of things I didn't know until we starteed using the cabinets -- like the Woodmode have taller sides on the deep drawers standard while the Brookhaven are shorter sides. Neither is better or worse per se, but you might prefer a taller side for something like a linen drawer (stack towels) or a bread drawer, but a lower side for larger or heavier things you have to lift out.

thank you very much for your responses!

melinkrx: do you recommend drawers over a base cabinet that has rollout shelves? I am concerned about the look of a drawer base in our small kitchen, as everything else would be doors, and one kitchen designer told us that rollout shelves are much more flexible. any thoughts? i also love the lazy susan, but alas we are doing galley style so no corner cabinet for us. love the photo-beautiful kitchen.

lascatx-regarding the drawer sides-does this also pertain to a large base cabinet drawers, or only the top drawer of base cabinets? can i assume that rolloutshelves may actually be similar to a drawer base (both don't have high sides/backs)?

thanks again

We love our Brookhaven cabinetry. The quality and finish is topnotch in our opinion.We love the blum hardware that came with the cabinetry. ALso Wood-mode provides you with a kit for touching up future scratches, very clever. The only thing we did not like about it is the delivery times, ours was delayed 2weeks so total time for delivery for us is about 10weeks. More photos here http://www.pbase.com/tonyg3sc/kitchen

Here is a link that might be useful: Our kitchen

My kitchen is not really finished yet but I installed Brookhaven painted finish this fall. The quality is decent but I am not sure I would do them again. I DO like the frameless cabs though. Also, they were a reasonable price (my GC thought they were pricey but they were very similar to other options like Durasupreme, Schuler etc). Here are a few pics. I DO like the drawers as I got an upgraded bottom on the deep drawers (it is 1/2" thick maple rather than the hardboard stuff in the shallow drawers). My KD was surprised when you saw the drawer sides as I think they might have upgraded the sides too as they are full height.

Good luck!

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We also have Brookhaven and like others here we LOVE them. Our kitchen looks so similer to melinrk's up there that there's no point in me posting pictures. We did roll-out trays in almost all of our lower cabinets (even in our butler's pantry) and we don't regret it. We did not get drawer dividers but have since purchased the bamboo trays from BB&B and they fit in perfectly. Go for it, I don't think you'll be disappointed!

I did Brookhaven cabinets in my very small kitchen about 15 years ago. One door came with a slight finish flaw. There have been three owners of the apartment since then and the last owner before this one installed a stone counter and upgraded the appliances, but did not change the cabinets in any way. Considering there have been multiple owners, one of whom did some fairly significant remodeling, they are still there and they still look great.

palimpsest - I am glad to hear that you have found them durable. I had several doors with black smudges on them from the packaging which have to be replaced which did not impress me with the packaging. I have found it is difficult to get a perfect paint match to the originals. That is probably not Brookhaven but a general problem with painted rather than stained doors. They have been good about replacements though. I guess as particle board cabs go they are probably as good as any. I agree with tonyg3 - the Blum hardware is great. I do think the dovetail drawers are done very nicely too. So I guess I might have sounded more negative than I meant to in my post above. I really do like the door styles too. They did have a great selection of whites/creams/off whites and I love the French Vanilla color I chose. Also my KD was able to customize some of the cabinets so that I did not need such big fillers. There were charges for that I am sure but at least it could be done. So yes, I am happy with the cabinets. One reason I went with the frameless was that Brookhaven now cuts through the face frame to install the clip hinges and I did not really like how that looks. But I am very happy with the frameless, especially for the drawers which have a huge amount of useable height.

Good luck and I agree with others, if you like Brookhaven and the price is OK - go for it!

Good luck.

stacys...I think the decision to do all cabinets, or all drawers or a combo is such a personal decision that it's hard to tell you what to do.

I like a combo of both. I also had the room to do both. Under the cooktop, I did cabinet with pull out drawers, on either side I did a set of 3 drawers. It looks great together.

In hindsight, doing drawers underneith the cooktop would eliminate that extra step of opening doors and pulling out drawers to get to my pots. Is it really a big deal...no. I then have a run of corner and 2 double doors - all with pull out drawers in them. Again, in hindsight, maybe I should have done a cabinet, then a drawer set. Would it be easier, maybe. I do like the pull outs because they hold shallower things easier than those deep drawers.

So, if I was doing it again, maybe I would do a 5 drawer somewhere instead of a 3 drawer. The 2 deepp drawers are really deep. I don't think they would be good for food storage. In my pullouts I have 1 huge pullout for baking supplies (lots of smaller shallow stuff), 1 for cans (soup cans would get buried in a deep drawer), 1 for pasta, stuff like that.

Should you do both? If you have the room and like the look, do both. Otherwise, just do pull outs and call it a day :).

I have Brookhaven cabinetry that is about 12 years old. I am planning to remove it. The cabinets are finished with a painted finish, not stained. It has cracked badly over time.

Wood-Mode says that is to be expected in the desert southwest because of the low humidity.

I called them about it a few years ago.

They said that this is not covered under their guarantees.

The cracking is pretty bad. I'll try to take a pic and post it later.

Anyways, the cabinets seem fine except for the finish.

My overall kitchen looks pretty common with the Brookhaven cabinets.

I want to have a kitchen with more character and punch.

Don't know what I will go with yet, but I doubt if Wood-Mode or Brookhaven would be my choice because I really think these kitchens look rather stale.

We installed Andover White Brookhaven cabinets 20 years ago. They are perfect and have worn very well. Easy to clean up. Absolutely love them.

@crgraber do you have any pictures of your cabinets? we're thinking of doing a similar route as yours and would love to see how they've held up

Anyone have a sense for the cost of these cabinets?

I have Wood mode in my kitchen and Brookhaven in every other room of my house. Ten yrs old. Beautiful and look like new. Getting ready to sell house. Did touch up with touch up kit in kitchen and they look great.

pricey. Honestly, doubt that I will do Woodmode in new house. But, the quality is amazing. Just don't know that I can justify the $$$ again.

we shall see.