Maybe you'd like IKEA Vedhamn (below.) I haven't used IKEA cabinets but they get good reviews here.

Try looking into cabinet companies that sell quartersawn oak or white oak. Rift sawn is the most expensive. Some companies are mimicking the tone on maple doors - the graining is very different though.

Fabuwood desert oak - quartersawn

Kraftmaid Barley maple

Kraftmaid Wicker quartersawn oak

Kraftmaid wicker maple

The Fabuwood color is the closest to what your picture is , but try going to see the others in person. You might be surprised

We looked at Kraftmaid Wicker for a new build, but in the design center full kitchen display it had a subtle but mottled, marbelized look as opposed to wood grain. Make sure you see at least a few cabinets together on display, not just a door or smaller sample.

You also could use IKEA cabinets + order rift sawn white oak doors/drawer fronts. You can purchase them already finished + purchase end panels if needed. Scherr's also makes specialty cabinets + hoods + appliance panels.

Here is a kitchen posted by a Houzz user (her kitchen was ruined due to a fire I believe).

Close up of rift sawn white oak panels/doors/drawer fronts (scherr's made toe kick drawers for all of the cabinets):

Scherr's professional finished everything for the homeowner - and the cost was very reasonable.

The doors and drawers are the most expensive part. There is no way that starting with low option stock cabinets and adding uber expensive custom doors to them comes out ahead of just buying better cabinets from the beginning.

No such thing. The big appeal of rift sawn is the grain pattern. You don’t get that with a less expensive wood cut, or a different wood. You just don’t. You have to choose something else for what it IS. Not for how close it looks to 100K cabinets. Because you can’t get there from here in a natural wood. Now, if you are willing to move to one of the laminates or foils, you can shave some off. But high quality Euro materials arent cheap either. You’d be maybe half that 100K price. You will never be 1/10 that price.

The look of rift sawn white oak is achieved by purchasing rift sawn white oak. Period.

“Affordable” is a personal value driven term. Define what dollar figure that means to you. 100K probably isn’t it, even though most kitchens with custom white oak easily end up being that or more. But, to get what you want, what is your top dollar stretch? What are you willing to sacrifice? Reduce the amount of wood, as in just an island? Change your vision about the grain look for a light maple look? Do a 180 and choose something completely off the mainstream almost overdone fad radar, like yellow paint, or natural cherry wood?

https://www.ultracraft.com/literature-downloads/

ULTRACRAFT is a manufacturer that offers cabinets at various price points.

You can save money if you purchase RTA cabinets and put in some sweat equity.

"I don't necessarily want white oak cabinets. I just want the look of the rift white oak."

Yes, you do, and the only way to get it is WITH rift white oak. Or a veneer .

The first thing you do, is show the kitchen you are doing, in its current state. Function precedes finishes.

Your best bet on a budget is going to be Ikea

Quartersawn looks very similar to your inspo pics and is more available and less expensive. We found that a custom millwork shop could give us exactly what we wanted at a price that was comparable to mid range store bought cabinets.

"Quartersawn looks very similar to your inspo pics and is more available and less expensive."

Quartersawn can be heavy on the ray flecks -- better be sure you like that look if you consider quartersawn. Lots of people like it; I don't -- and especially not in stained wood, which only highlights the rays.

Where is the kitchen you are doing? It's a build or a remodel?

You can do a custom island in rift, You can bookend a painted kitchen in rift. What you can't do is pre decide and mock up an image, until you have a layout with function first considered, to fit the space you have, which is W.H.A.T ?

If you're on a REALLY low budget, check out Import line J&K They have a new finish cabinet called Butterscotch. In real life, they aren't that dark.

You should really answer Jan's questions. There are ways to incorporate rift sawn white oak into a kitchen - without making all of the cabinets RSWO = lower $. For example, having a custom RSWO island.

I've seen some kitchens where RSWO was used to "bookend" the painted kitchen. They have looked really nice. I think that if you are thinking about mixing some RSWO into your kitchen, having input from a pro (or really experienced other users on Houzz) is very important. If you aren't careful, it won't look purposefully done - and instead could end up looking like you simply couldn't afford to do all RSWO vs. that it has been used as a design element.

The cabinets are for a "built-in" bar wall, so there won't be an island or an opportunity to do a bookend. I do agree though doing accent RSWO looks great! The original photos I posted, the top photo is what I'm trying to recreate. The bottom photo is just the color cabinets I love. I am debating on doing white cabinets with the interior of the counter tower cabinet in white oak and the floating shelves in white oak.

"A built in bar wall" that is what length please?

If you don't give the full context, nobody can help! There are PLENTY of creative minds here, and there are other ways to get what you "want" but ......can not pay for.

What is the length and is it open, or in a niche?

I would start by NOT using float shelves, reducing the amount of solid surface.

Order from a cabinet company with the "rift" you like

The float shelves are unnecessary and beyond over done. Use DOORS for the middle

or the ends, they are less than drawer bases

Close enough..... and use art

Adjust pocket or plan...

You want a veneer on maple, and veneer for the backs of cabinets.

Cut the solid surface cost........

We are in the process of removing the atrium in the middle of our house. They are adding a roof, the floors are being raised and the walls are coming down to make an open floor plan. The red square is where the bar wall will be. When I measured before demo it was 114". The wall should be close to 114" when the remodel is done. I was planning on having the right and left walls come out about 30", a little past the cabinets.

I created this document the other day with more specific info.

Atrium is cool but I can see why you'd want to gain the space. Atrium is kinda small to do anything with, right? Be sure to beef up your lighting, taking out the atrium will decrease the light in your house....but I'm sure you've already considered that. :-)

Also, I saw a really cool design on IG a few years ago. They had wall cabinets without doors and had a welder make them metal mullion/glass doors. I'm sure it wasn't cheap, but wow....looked amazing! I'll try to find the pictures of it.

Yes, I'm sad a lot of our natural light will be gone, but the atrium made our house really hot in the summer so I'm hoping for a lower electricity bill. :)

I originally reached out to a number of local metal fabricators but the few that responded couldn't make the doors. I found two website that do sell the metal and glass doors though.

https://www.hafele.com/us/en/product/aluminum-door-frame-profile-cut-to-size/P-00899390/

https://www.element-designs.com/catalog/aluminum-frame-cabinet-doors

I had my welder friend quote black metal doors like the ones I'm talking about. His price per door was around $600 two years ago.

I found the pics....here they are below.

@The Kitchen Place I love those doors!!

I know! Aren't they great!?!

Yes they are fantastic doors. Rift is fantastic. You are after a look, at a price that is half or less the price of the custom that all of these are.

You adjust the dream, or you adjust the pocket book: )

You also sit down and ask how long you will be in the house. Ten years? Divide the cost of the dream over the ten years. You may find it is worth holding out for it, and in the meantime? find a nice long server/buffet console to use as a bar set up, and w.a.i.t and save .

@JAN MOYER You're right. I think I need to adjust the dream a a little. I do like the idea of thinking how long will we be in the house. This isn't our forever home so we shouldn't, so we need to keep that in mind.

I am liking the idea of white cabinets with oak accents.

I love these elegant shaker doors (top photo), and I was thinking white oak floating shelves in between the two counter tower cabinets and figuring out a way to make the interior of the counter tower cabinets look like white oak (bottom photo).

Aside from this bar you want? What does the kitchen look like? What do your baths look like?

Or...putting it gently? Does the rest live up to and with the look of the dream bar?

I don't have photos the bathrooms or kitchen right now. The kitchen cabinet are white shaker and we're going to redo the counter tops when we put the counter tops in the bar. They will both be Taj Mahal Quartzite. We only have one guest bath and that will need to be redon at some point; it looks like it was done in the around the early 2000s.