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Cabinetry

Cabinet specification, ordering and installation, plus built-in millwork.

Cabinetry is usually the longest-lead item in a kitchen and one of the largest single line items in a remodel. It is specified against a layout, so changing the layout after the order restarts the clock.

The specification is where the money and the function actually live — box construction, drawer hardware, interior fittings, door style, finish. Two kitchens with identical footprints can differ enormously in cost through decisions that are invisible in a photograph, which is why the specification is walked through line by line during selections rather than summarized as a brand name.

Appliances are specified before cabinets are ordered, not after. A range's width, a refrigerator's depth and door swing, a dishwasher's panel — every one of them is a dimension the cabinet order has to honour. Ordering cabinets around assumed appliances is how a remodel ends up trimming filler strips on site to hide a two-centimetre argument.

Installation quality shows in the reveals: consistent gaps, doors that align across a run, and scribing to walls that are never perfectly straight. Levelling the base run is the half-day that decides whether the countertop template goes smoothly, and whether every door in the kitchen hangs true afterwards.

Built-ins carry the same logic through the rest of the house — window benches, closet systems, a garage or laundry wall of storage. Designed with the room rather than bought as boxes, they are often the highest-satisfaction line in an interior remodel.

What this covers

  • Layout-driven cabinet specification
  • Semi-custom and custom ordering
  • Installation, leveling and scribing
  • Door and drawer alignment
  • Built-ins, benches and closet millwork

Decided in design

Settled before anything is built.

These are the decisions the design and preconstruction stage resolves for this work — while changing the answer is a revision, not a demolition.

  1. Layout frozen before the order — the order date is the point of no return
  2. Appliance make and model confirmed first, so every clearance is a real number
  3. Construction level and hardware specified line by line, not by brand impression
  4. Door style and finish sampled in the home's own light
  5. Interior fittings — drawers versus doors, pull-outs, waste and recycling — decided per run

Questions

Answers we can give honestly.

Why do cabinets drive the whole kitchen schedule?
Because they are ordered, not built on site, and the lead time starts when the specification is final. The countertop cannot be templated until cabinets are set, and plumbing cannot finish until the countertop is in — so the cabinet order date effectively sets the back half of the schedule.
What happens if we change the layout after ordering?
The affected boxes are re-ordered and the clock restarts on them. It is the most expensive category of late change in a kitchen, which is exactly why our process front-loads the layout decisions and freezes them before anything is ordered.
Semi-custom or custom — how do we decide?
By what the layout and the design actually require. Semi-custom lines cover most kitchens well; custom earns its cost when dimensions, materials or details fall outside what a line can do. It is a fit question answered by the drawings, not a status question.

Part of

Projects this work sits inside.

Kitchen Remodeling

Full kitchen renovation — layout, cabinetry, surfaces, lighting and the trades behind them.

Bathroom Remodeling

Bathroom renovation with the waterproofing, ventilation and plumbing done properly.

Interior Remodeling

Reworking interior space — walls, floors, lighting, built-ins and finishes.

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