I was searching for cabinetdirect.com and found this post. Curious to know if you went with them and what your experience was.

Stick with someone local that you can visit and resolve your inevitable 2023 supply chain and quality problems. Online cabinet sellers do stick figure sketch designs in the most basic of square peg in round holes type box selling. They do not account for all of the required clearances, counter supports, or electrucal outlets, that are all required. The design failure responsibility is all yours, for everything.

For those that may still be researching this, I am here to share my experience!

We finished a renovation recently using cabinetdirect.com and are very happy with the outcome.

We were specifically looking for walnut cabinets. After some research, we decided to use Starmarks. We first went to couple of local kitchen designers, quotes were over $50k without the specific organizers that we wanted, such as utility bins, trash pullout, wooden lazy Susan shelf, etc.

We then tried cabinet joint. They do rta cabinets but also has the walnut option. We thought about doing the assembly on our own but decided against it. Quote was $35k,assembly and delivery is additional $7k.

Then I came across cabinetdirect.com which sells starmarks cabinets. We were very skeptical at first. It was a big purchase and sending money online to an unknown place seems risky. We spoke to the kitchen designer and learned that they have brick and mortar locations in the NE under 2 hours drive from us. We called the local stores and confirmed that the online business is affiliated. We felt better at that point. The designer we worked with was very helpful and made a lot of good suggestions. Very fast to respond to design changes and requests. We ended up paying $38.5k for the cabinets with all the organizers that I wanted.

Delivery was smooth and everything came as scheduled.

In our case, we have an open kitchen which allows for wiggle room on the measurement, we weren’t too concerned if we were off by an inch or two. But we did have our contractor do the measurement with us to be safe. But the instruction cabinet direct provided was good.

OP here. Somehow I missed the activity! To close the loop: we ended up going with StarMark cabinets, from CabinetDirect.com, after figuring out they were a branch (?) of Consumers Kitchen and Bath, a bricks-and-mortar chain of stores on Long Island. Our kitchen designer was good, he knew to include clearances for inside corners and such, and was patient with us (me) when I dreamed up some custom cabinets (for which he had to contact StarMark to find out if they could build - which they could and did). We had a few issues with some of the appliance panels arriving scratched because not packed properly, but CabinetDirect got them replaced for us. My husband installed the cabinets. Overall we were happy with them.

and, Ivy, your kitchen turned out great, is beautiful!