Kitchen Styles - Cabinets - Cabinet makers

Once you get some ideas for the style of your cabinets, look for a manufacturer that can deliver your dream door. The main types are:

• Custom
• Semi-custom
• Stock

The decision often comes down to:

• Your design requirements
• Your time frame
• Your budget

Perhaps not surprisingly, you’ll wait longer and pay more for special sizes, finishes, and decoration. Custom offers the most choices; semi-custom provides some flexibility in the cabinets’ dimensions and finishes; and what you see is what you get with stock. 

Be sure to consider who will be using the kitchen. As one cabinet expert noted, “When the kids pull the drawers out and use them as a ladder to the cookie jar, they won’t last long whether they’re custom or stock.”