Kitchen Cabinet Cost in 2026 and the 2027 Tariff Increase
Kitchen cabinet cost runs about $100 to $1,200 per linear foot, depending on whether you buy stock, semi-custom or custom, according to national cost guides. For a 30-foot run of cabinets, the size used in the industry’s standard remodeling benchmark, that works out to roughly $3,000 at the low end of stock and $36,000 at […]
How Fabuwood Cabinets Are Made: A Contractor’s Guide
Put two cabinet quotes side by side for the same kitchen. A semi-custom order can run to a couple of months. Fabuwood’s stocked finishes ship in days, and most of its other finishes in a few weeks. That gap comes from the way Fabuwood builds and ships, and so do most of the things that […]
Kitchen Cabinets in Alexandria, VA: Stock, Permits and Lead Times
If you are buying kitchen cabinets for a house in Alexandria, two things decide your timeline, and only one of them is the cabinets. The first is whether the door style you picked is sitting in a warehouse or waiting to be built. The second is which permit line your layout falls on. That second […]
In-Stock Kitchen Cabinets Washington DC: Fit & Permits
If you are pricing in-stock kitchen cabinets in Washington, D.C., the number that decides whether your kitchen fits is not the price per linear foot. It is the gap between a 3 inch manufacturing grid and a wall that was plastered in 1912. Stock cabinets are built to fixed sizes. District rowhouses, Capitol Hill flats […]
Fabuwood Cabinets in Northern Virginia: What’s In Stock
If you are shopping for Fabuwood cabinets in Northern Virginia, the thing that decides your timeline is not the brand, the price or the installer. It is which of three availability states your chosen door style happens to sit in on the day you sign. All three get called “in stock” in a showroom. One […]
Kitchen Cabinets in Northern Virginia
If you are buying kitchen cabinets in Northern Virginia, here is the line that decides your project, and it rarely comes up until it is too late to matter. In Fairfax County, replacing kitchen cabinets and countertops requires no building permit at all. The county publishes it plainly. But the moment a plumbing, gas or […]
Bathroom Cabinets & Vanities: The Honest Buying Guide
Here are the three answers, before the argument for them. The standard tests a door. Every moisture test in the certification standard your vanity carries is run on a door, a door edge or a finished surface — and none on the sides, back, deck or toe kick, the parts that actually get wet. The […]
Frameless Kitchen Cabinets: What You Gain and Give Up
The answer before the argument. What you gain with frameless is access — an inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters of extra opening on a base cabinet, and drawers up to 36 inches wide with no centre stile down the middle of them. What you give up is roughly 8 to 15 […]
Kitchen Cabinet Construction: How to Read a Spec Sheet Before You Sign?
Someone walks into our Fairfax showroom with a competitor’s quote and one question: is this a good cabinet? The quote says all-plywood construction, dovetail drawers, soft-close hardware. So does every other quote in the folder — five companies, the same three specifications, and nine thousand dollars between the cheapest and the most expensive. So here […]
Wholesale Cabinets: 5-7 Day Stock, No Licence Needed
“Wholesale” gets used loosely in the cabinet business. Some places mean a trade-only account with a licence check. Some mean a discount you get once you spend enough. And plenty of sites use the word purely to rank for it, then quote you the same price as everyone else. Here is what it means at […]