I am choosing new cabinets for my new home. what brands are best?

Denise Newland

last month

I need to know the best brand of cabinets for the cost. We are building a home we will retire in.

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Kendrah
last month
How many cabinets do you need and what is your cabinet budget?

The best cabinets I have found were completely custom. $60,000 for a very small kitchen. Is that your budget?

We cannot be helpful without more information. It is like asking what is the best brand of car for the cost. Well are you purchasing $40k car or a $100k car? The answer will vary.
Theresa Peterson
last month
Not a brand persay, but definitely look into the possibility of true custom: My mom had custom cabinets built for her new kitchen (30 years ago), and the quality STILL IS outstanding. The same outfit just put cabinets in the VFW hall, and -- again-- the quality. I'd rather pay for it once and have it last.
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Minardi
last month
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Are you in a 50K cabinet budget home? 150K Cabinet budget home? 500K cabinet budget home? There literally is no upper limit budget to high end custom choices with exotic materials. There also is no limit on how bad some of the 5K imported cheap RTA is either. Most people want to avoid either extreme. What's your comfort level?
darbuka
last month
On the other hand, there have been people with postings on this site, who have been greatly disappointed with the quality of their custom cabinets. Not all custom cabinet makers are true craftsmen. And, they don’t all use the proper finishing products that ensure a long lasting end product.

As others have said, without knowing your budget it’s impossible to know what is “the best brand for the cost.”

For my budget 10 years ago, it was Tedd Wood. Tedd Wood is a company in PA, that has both semi custom and custom lines. I used their custom line, and have been very pleased…even all these years later.
AnnKH
last month
We had custom cabinets built (the shop is local - I saw my cabinets in the shop during fabrication). I loved the fact that I could any size I wanted for width and drawer height. I appreciated non-standard things like pullouts over the fridge, toekick drawers, and outlets inside a cabinet for charging devices. It was great that the electrician had the cabinet maker on speed dial, when he had a question about the placement of that outlet. The cabinet maker and counter fabricator worked well together. It was amazing that the installer was not happy with how one of the drawer fronts looked, so he didn't even bring it in the house - he called the shop to make a new one. When one set of drawers were the wrong height, they fixed it immediately and cheerfully.

We've had the same company build two kitchens for us, and they were not outrageously expensive. We lived in the first kitchen 8 years, and they looked brand new the day we moved out.