Kitchen Cabinets are the biggest line item in a kitchen remodel and the one most people research last. By the time someone walks into our Alexandria or Fairfax showroom, they usually have a countertop picked, a backsplash saved on Pinterest, and no idea whether they want framed or frameless boxes.
So here is the version we give across the counter. What the four cabinet types actually are, how a box is built, what sizes exist, what everything costs in 2026, and how long it takes to arrive. We are an authorized Fabuwood dealer and have been since 2014, so wherever a Fabuwood spec answers the question in front of you, we give you the number instead of a generality.
Written by
Hatice Halac, In Stock Today Cabinets
Hatice writes the Fabuwood comparison series and works with the showroom design teams in Alexandria, Fairfax and Columbia. The pricing and lead times here come from quotes our showrooms write.
Originally published October 2022. Rewritten and expanded July 2026 with current pricing, 2026 NKBA trend data and updated Fabuwood specifications.
The short answer
Which cabinets are right for you?
- Need the kitchen finished this month? Buy in-stock semi-custom boxes in standard sizes. You give up a couple of inches of fit and gain about eight weeks.
- Flipping the property or fitting out a rental? Stock or ready-to-assemble. Insist on a plywood box anyway. The price gap is smaller than people expect.
- Forever kitchen, normal layout? Semi-custom. That is where roughly nine out of ten of our showroom projects land.
- Walls out of square, 10-foot ceilings, or you want inset doors? Full custom, and budget six to twelve weeks.
- Boxes solid, doors tired? Reface or repaint. Replacing a sound plywood box is money that belongs in your countertops.
What are kitchen cabinets?
A kitchen cabinet is a box, a door and a set of hardware. That sounds reductive until you price two of them side by side and find a $400 difference on identical-looking doors. The money is in the parts you cannot see once the kitchen is installed.
Every kitchen is built from three families of box. Base cabinets sit on the floor and carry the countertop. Wall cabinets hang above them. Tall cabinets run floor to ceiling as pantries, oven housings or broom closets. Everything else is a variation: sink bases, blind corners, lazy Susan corners, appliance garages, refrigerator panels.
The four types
Every cabinet sold in the United States falls into one of four buckets. The difference is not quality. It is how much the factory will bend for you, and how long you wait while it does.
Ready-to-assemble
Ships flat. You or your installer put the boxes together with cam locks and screws. RTA carries a reputation it no longer deserves, because plenty of RTA lines now use plywood boxes, dovetail drawers and soft-close hardware. What you are buying is freight efficiency, not cheap parts. The catch is labor. Assembly runs one to three hours per cabinet for a first-timer. We go deeper on the tradeoff in our guide to RTA versus pre-assembled cabinets.
Stock
Fixed sizes, usually 3-inch increments from 9 to 48 inches wide, warehoused and shipped as-is. Nothing gets modified. If your wall measures 97 inches you use 96 inches of cabinet and a 1-inch filler. That is not a flaw in the system. It is how the whole industry handles walls that are never quite square.
Semi-custom
Stock sizes plus a menu of modifications: reduced depths, increased heights, custom finishes, specialty interiors. Most real remodels land here because it solves the overwhelming majority of layout problems at a fraction of custom pricing. Fabuwood’s Allure and Illume lines sit in this tier.
Custom
Built to your measurements from scratch, in any species or finish. Worth the money when the space is genuinely odd: 10-foot ceilings, a bumped-out chimney, an angled wall. Also the only route to true inset doors, which most semi-custom catalogs do not offer at all.
| Type | Sizing flexibility | Typical lead time | Installed cost per linear foot | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTA | Fixed sizes only | Days, plus your assembly time | $100 to $300 | Tight budgets, hands-on owners |
| Stock | 3-inch increments, no changes | Same day to 2 weeks | $100 to $300 | Rentals, flips, fast turnarounds |
| Semi-custom | Modified depths, heights, finishes | 5 days stocked, 4 to 8 weeks modified | $150 to $650 | Most homeowner remodels |
| Custom | Any dimension, species or finish | 6 to 16 weeks | $500 to $1,200+ | Unusual layouts, inset doors, period homes |
Not sure which tier your kitchen needs?
Bring your measurements to any IST showroom. We will price the same layout in Value Premium, Quest and Allure so you can see the gap in dollars rather than adjectives.
Framed or frameless
A framed cabinet has a solid wood face frame around the front of the box, like a picture frame. Doors mount to that frame. It is the traditional American method, it is stiff, and it is the only construction that accepts true inset doors.
A frameless cabinet, also called full-access or European, has no face frame. Doors mount straight to the box sides. The opening is wider, so a full-size sheet pan slides into a 24-inch base without turning sideways, and drawer boxes run closer to the full width of the cabinet. Manufacturers commonly cite around 15 percent more usable interior space for full-access construction.
Fabuwood sells both. Allure, Quest and Value Premium are framed. Illume is the frameless line, and Ovela, which launched in November 2025, is frameless with all-plywood boxes.
The showroom rule: small kitchen fighting for storage, go frameless. Traditional or transitional look with visible frames, go framed. If you cannot decide, framed sells better on resale across most of our Virginia and Maryland markets, and it is what the majority of our Allure orders use.
What the box is made of
The door is what you look at. The box is what fails. Under a leaking sink, particle board swells and never recovers, while plywood dries out and keeps holding screws. This is the specification worth arguing about.
| Material | What it is | Survives a sink leak? |
|---|---|---|
| Particle board | Wood chips bonded with resin under a thin laminate skin | No. Swells permanently and loses screw grip |
| MDF | Fine wood fiber, denser and smoother than particle board | Poorly, unless every edge is sealed |
| HDF / engineered furniture board | Higher-density fiberboard, very flat and stable | Better, still not plywood |
| Plywood | Cross-laminated veneer layers, usually 1/2″ or 3/4″ | Yes. Dries out and keeps holding fasteners |
| Solid wood | Dimensional lumber, normally only in frames and doors | Yes, but it moves with humidity |
Ask any salesperson two questions and you will learn more than an hour of browsing gives you. Is the box plywood, and how thick? Is the back panel one piece, or a thin sheet stapled into a groove? A one-piece 1/2-inch plywood back is what lets a wall cabinet carry a loaded shelf of dinnerware for twenty years.
For reference, Fabuwood Allure uses 1/2-inch plywood throughout with a one-piece 1/2-inch plywood back, and the line is tested to the KCMA 600-pound wall-load standard. That 600-pound figure is the number we quote when someone asks how much weight an upper cabinet can take, and it is the answer a lot of competing lines cannot give you.
Drawers, glides and hinges
Doors rarely break. Drawers do, because they are the only part of a kitchen that moves thousands of times a year with weight in them. Three things decide whether a drawer lasts.
First, the drawer box itself. You want solid wood with dovetail joinery at all four corners, not stapled particle board under a laminate skin. Fabuwood uses 5/8-inch solid birch with dovetail corners across its main lines.
Second, the glides. Full-extension undermount with soft-close. Full extension means the back of the drawer clears the cabinet face, so you can reach the pot you buried last winter. Side-mount glides cost less and steal about an inch and a half of usable width.
Third, the hinges. Six-way adjustable, soft-close, from a named manufacturer. Blum is the benchmark and it is standard across Fabuwood’s main lines, both the Compact Clip hinges and the full-extension runners. Generic hinges are the reason doors drift out of alignment in year three, and once they do, no amount of adjusting brings the reveal back.
Where you put the pulls matters more than people expect once the doors are hung. We covered that separately in the most common mistakes when integrating hardware with Shaker cabinets.
Wood species and painted doors
Species only matters on the parts you can see: doors, drawer fronts, exposed end panels.
Maple is dense with a nearly closed grain and takes stain or paint cleanly, which makes it the default for a smooth modern look. White oak has an open grain and a warm undertone, and it is the current favorite. Just over half the professionals NKBA surveyed for 2026 named it the most popular wood. Hickory gives you the most dramatic grain and color variation of the common species, and people either love it in ten seconds or rule it out in five. Cherry is rich and smooth and darkens noticeably over the first few years, so budget for that rather than being surprised by it. Birch and alder are economical and even-toned, and they show up constantly under paint.
MDF for painted doors sounds like a downgrade and is not. MDF center panels do not expand and contract the way solid wood does, so painted finishes are far less likely to crack at the joint line. Fabuwood builds its doors with solid wood stiles and rails around a 3/8-inch MDF center panel, joined with mortise and tenon, which is the reason its painted doors hold a clean line at the corners.
One honest note about semi-custom catalogs in general, Fabuwood included: many finishes described as maple are birch stained to a maple appearance. That is normal in this tier and it is not a defect. It matters only if you are trying to match an existing run. More detail lives in our breakdown of wood finishes for kitchen cabinets.
Sizes and standard dimensions
Almost all American cabinetry is built to the same dimensional grid. Knowing it lets you sanity-check any design someone hands you.
| Cabinet | Height | Depth | Width range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base | 34.5″ (36″ with countertop) | 24″ | 12″ to 48″ |
| Wall | 12″ to 42″ | 12″ to 24″ | 12″ to 36″ |
| Tall / pantry | 84″ to 96″ | 12″ to 24″ | 18″ to 36″ |
Two dimensions decide how the kitchen feels day to day. Wall cabinets at 42 inches run to a standard 8-foot ceiling with no dust shelf above, which most people prefer once they have lived with the alternative. And a base run measured in 3-inch increments will almost never match your wall exactly, so expect fillers. A homeowner on r/kitchenremodel put it plainly: you can fill a space with stock cabinets, you just have to use every asset you are given, including fillers, half legs and pull-out inserts.
Overlay and door styles
Overlay describes how much of the face frame the door covers.
| Overlay | What you see | Relative cost |
|---|---|---|
| Partial | About 1″ of face frame shows between doors | Lowest |
| Full | Slim reveal, doors nearly touch | Middle, and the current default |
| Inset | Door sits flush inside the frame, furniture-grade | Highest, framed construction only |
Fabuwood runs full overlay across its standard catalog and does not offer inset. If your heart is set on flush inset doors, we will tell you that up front and point you toward a custom shop, because pretending otherwise wastes everybody’s afternoon.
Door style is the aesthetic layer on top: Shaker, slab, raised panel, beadboard, glass front, louvered. Shaker stays the safest choice by a wide margin because it reads traditional in a 1950s colonial and modern in a new build. Full breakdown in the kitchen cabinet styles you should know, and if you are leaning Shaker, our notes on materials for durable Shaker cabinets separate a good one from a cheap one.
Colors and finishes for 2026
NKBA surveyed 634 kitchen and bath professionals, two-thirds of them designers, for its 2026 trends report. A few findings are worth planning around.
Neutrals still lead at 96 percent, but the neutrals themselves have shifted warm. Cream, taupe and mushroom are replacing the cool greys that ran the 2010s. Green is the top accent at 86 percent with blue behind it at 78 percent, while millennial pink drew 11 percent and bright red 6 percent, which tells you where the risk sits. Wood grain is displacing paint: 59 percent say it is growing and 51 percent name white oak the leading species. Flat slab doors reached 69 percent, transitional remains the top style at 72 percent, and 82 percent now specify under-cabinet lighting, so plan your outlets and switching before the boxes go up.
Fabuwood finishes track this closely. The catalog uses Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore coatings, and the named colors read exactly like the NKBA data: Frost and Dove for the warm whites, Nickel and Mist in the greys, Cobblestone and Linen in the warm neutrals, Timber, Kona, Mocha and Java on the wood-tone side, Indigo for the blue accent.
Two-tone layouts are the practical way to use color without committing the whole room. Painted perimeter, stained or contrasting island. Combinations that hold up are in our two-tone guide, and if you are working around existing oak, countertop pairings for oak cabinets is the most-read piece on our site.
Hatice’s showroom tip: never approve a color from a 3-inch chip under showroom lighting. Take the door sample home. Set it against your countertop sample. Look at it at 8am and again at 8pm. Warm whites swing hard between LED and daylight, and that is the single most common regret we hear after delivery.
How Fabuwood measures up, spec by spec
Everything above is brand-neutral. Here is the part where we stop being neutral, because we have sold this brand since 2014 and we have the specification sheet in front of us. Run Fabuwood against the checks in this guide and it answers all of them.
| What to demand | What Fabuwood delivers | Our read |
|---|---|---|
| Plywood box | Allure: 1/2″ plywood throughout, one-piece 1/2″ plywood back. Ovela: all-plywood frameless | Meets the spec. Illume uses engineered furniture board, so ask which line you are quoted |
| Wall load rating | KCMA 600 lb wall-load tested | A published number, which many competitors cannot produce |
| Dovetail drawer box | 5/8″ solid birch, dovetailed four corners | Standard across main lines, not an upcharge |
| Named hardware | Blum Compact Clip hinges with Blumotion, Blum full-extension runners | The clearest quality signal in the whole quote |
| Door construction | Solid wood stiles and rails, 3/8″ MDF center panel, mortise and tenon | Correct build for painted doors |
| Certifications | KCMA, CARB2, TSCA Title VI, ICC-ES, AWI Premium Grade, packaged as the Q12 program | Covers construction and formaldehyde emissions |
| Warranty | Limited lifetime on Allure, Illume, Ovela, Quest, Value Premium and Valencia for purchases on or after 1 October 2024 | Strong on paper, non-transferable, so it ends when you sell |
| Overlay options | Full overlay across the standard catalog | The current default look. Inset is a custom-shop route |
| Finish range | Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore coatings across whites, greys, warm neutrals and wood tones | Tracks the 2026 color data closely |
Some background that explains why availability has improved. Fabuwood was founded in 2008 and assembles in a one-million-square-foot facility in Newark, New Jersey. In September 2024 it acquired Plain & Fancy Custom Cabinetry, a 56-year-old Pennsylvania luxury maker, which became its custom arm. In January 2025 it opened a second manufacturing facility in Tijuana plus a Southern California distribution center. It has taken the Kitchen & Bath Business Readers’ Choice Award for cabinetry five times in seven years, most recently in 2025.
Which Fabuwood line fits your kitchen
| Line | Construction | Door series we stock | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allure | Framed, 1/2″ plywood box, birch dovetail drawers, Blum hardware | Luna, Onyx, Imperio, Fusion, Galaxy, Nexus | The workhorse. Most of our full-kitchen projects |
| Quest | Framed, value-engineered box | Metro, Discovery | Rentals, secondary kitchens, tighter budgets |
| Value Premium | Framed, entry construction | Hallmark | Flips and fast turnarounds |
| Illume | Frameless, engineered furniture-board box | To order | Small kitchens and modern layouts |
| Ovela | Frameless, all-plywood box, launched November 2025 | To order | Frameless buyers who refuse furniture board |
Our fuller assessment of the brand is in our Fabuwood review. If you want the head-to-head version against other brands, the comparison series does it line against line rather than brand against brand: Fabuwood versus Kith, Fabuwood versus Shiloh, Fabuwood versus KraftMaid and Cubitac versus Fabuwood.
We stock Fabuwood and FIBO, so those are the lines we can speak to from the showroom floor. If you are shopping a wider field and want to see how a nine-line, multi-brand catalog is organised, USA Cabinet Store publishes a broader look across the cabinet lines they carry.
What cabinets cost in 2026
Cabinet pricing is quoted per linear foot of run, installed. A standard 10-by-10 test kitchen is roughly 40 linear feet, and that is the yardstick almost every supplier uses when advertising a package price.
Read every figure below as cabinetry and its installation only. A complete kitchen remodel adds countertops, appliances, flooring, plumbing and electrical on top, and lands several times higher. That is why a whole-project quote and a cabinet quote can look like they came from different planets when they are both accurate.
| Tier | Per linear foot installed | 10×10 kitchen (40 lf) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painting only | $45 to $90 | $1,800 to $3,600 | Existing boxes and doors, new finish |
| Refacing | $120 to $250 | $4,800 to $10,000 | New doors and veneer, existing boxes |
| Stock / RTA | $100 to $300 | $4,000 to $12,000 | Fixed sizes, limited finishes |
| Semi-custom | $150 to $650 | $6,000 to $26,000 | Modified sizes, plywood boxes, named hardware |
| Custom | $500 to $1,200+ | $20,000 to $48,000+ | Any dimension, species and finish |
Labor is a real share of those numbers. Professional installation typically runs $50 to $300 per linear foot depending on how difficult the job is, or $40 to $80 an hour. Cabinetry as a whole absorbs roughly 30 to 40 percent of a full kitchen remodel budget.
Where Fabuwood sits: recent 10-by-10 cabinet package pricing at IST, meaning the boxes and doors rather than a finished kitchen, has run in the low-to-mid $4,000s for Value Premium up through the high $5,000s for Allure door styles like Luna and Fusion, with Allure landing around $300 to $500 per linear foot installed depending on door, finish and modifications. Quest sits between the two. Plain & Fancy, the custom arm, sits well above. Prices move, so treat those as orientation and ask a showroom for a current written quote before you build a budget on them.
The comparison that matters: compare line against line, never brand against brand. A high-end semi-custom line can cost more than an entry custom shop, and homeowners discover this constantly. Quoting Allure against a competitor’s entry line tells you nothing useful.
Lead time
This is the part most buying guides skip, and it is the reason our company is called In Stock Today. Cabinet lead time drives the entire project schedule. Countertops cannot be templated until the boxes are set. Backsplash, plumbing trim and flooring transitions all queue behind that. A four-week cabinet delay is a four-week kitchen delay, and if you are living without a kitchen, that is four more weeks of takeout.
Our stocked Fabuwood configurations typically deliver in 5 to 7 days, and some items go home the same day. Standard factory orders on stocked configurations run around 5 business days, longer through spring and fall remodel season. Custom colors and modifications commonly stretch to 6 to 8 weeks. Full custom shops run 6 to 16 weeks, and the clock does not start until final drawings are approved.
If your project has a hard deadline, a closing date, a holiday, a baby, then design to what is on the shelf. That constraint hurts less than it sounds, because stocked lines carry the door styles and colors that sell, which are usually the ones you were going to choose anyway.
Need cabinets this month, not this quarter?
We hold Fabuwood Allure, Quest and Value Premium in stock across six showrooms. Send your measurements and we will tell you what is available now and what needs a factory order.
What homeowners actually say
Showroom conversations are filtered. Forum threads are not. These are real comments from people who finished the process, linked to the source discussions.
“We had a similar sentiment regarding custom cabinets. Decided to call a couple companies to get what I expected to be outrageous quotes and found they were not very much more than semi-custom.”
u/whiskeyrunner2, r/kitchenremodel
“I’ve noticed the semicustom brands that get super expensive are basically halfway to custom brands: use any wood you want, paint any color, build very unusual sizes and styles.”
u/azure275, r/kitchenremodel
“Wasn’t expecting much from RTA when I started my reno but honestly the quality can be really solid if you pick the right supplier… plywood boxes, soft close hardware, and they actually helped with the layout. Assembly wasn’t bad either, took like 2-3 hours per cabinet but I’m slow at this stuff. Saved enough to upgrade my countertops which was the whole point.”
u/krishna_Adithya, r/kitchenremodel
“The main reason to go custom is when standard sizes don’t fit… Went to local custom shop and got exact fit for same price as big name standard cabinets.”
u/Least-Ad-5539, r/kitchenremodel
“Many custom kitchens are full of things that salespeople will say are necessary and add value, like pull out towel rails, spice drawers, all sorts of things. I highly doubt they are anything more than profit-making accessories.”
u/CBG1955, r/kitchenremodel
That last one is fair criticism and we will take it. Some interior accessories earn their keep, a blind-corner pull-out above all, and some are margin. Ask your designer which items on your quote you would notice if they disappeared. A good one will answer honestly.
Questions to ask yourself before you order
- How much do you actually cook? Daily cooks need deep drawers and reachable storage far more than they need a showpiece island.
- How much do you entertain? That decides whether a beverage zone or a second prep area earns its footprint.
- Is the layout the problem, or just the look? If the layout works, refacing may be the better spend.
- Do you have a hard deadline? If yes, that decides your tier before anything else does.
- Is the plywood box confirmed in writing, with the thickness stated?
- Are the drawer boxes dovetailed, on full-extension undermount soft-close glides?
- Who makes the hinges? A named manufacturer is a proxy for the rest of the build.
- Which certifications does the line hold? KCMA for construction, CARB2 and TSCA Title VI for emissions.
- Is the warranty limited lifetime or five years, and does it transfer when you sell?
- Is the quote itemized by cabinet rather than lumped, so you can see what each accessory costs?
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Kitchen cabinet FAQs
What is the difference between framed and frameless cabinets?
Framed cabinets have a solid wood face frame around the front of the box, and doors mount to that frame. Frameless cabinets have no face frame, so doors attach directly to the box sides. Frameless gives you a wider opening and roughly 15 percent more usable interior space. Framed is more traditional, generally stiffer, and the only construction that accepts true inset doors. Fabuwood Allure, Quest and Value Premium are framed. Illume and Ovela are frameless.
How much do kitchen cabinets cost in 2026?
Installed, stock and RTA run about $100 to $300 per linear foot, semi-custom $150 to $650, and custom $500 to $1,200 or more. On a 10-by-10 kitchen of roughly 40 linear feet that is about $4,000 to $12,000 for stock, $6,000 to $26,000 for semi-custom, and $20,000 and up for custom. Cabinetry usually absorbs 30 to 40 percent of a full remodel budget.
How much do Fabuwood cabinets cost?
Recent 10-by-10 package pricing at IST has run in the low-to-mid $4,000s for Value Premium up through the high $5,000s for Allure door styles like Luna and Fusion. Allure lands around $300 to $500 per linear foot installed depending on door style, finish and modifications, with Quest between the two. Custom paint matches carry both a price and a lead-time premium. Ask a showroom for a current written quote, because cabinet pricing moves.
Are Fabuwood cabinets good quality?
On construction, yes. Allure gives you a 1/2-inch plywood box with a one-piece plywood back, KCMA 600-pound wall-load testing, 5/8-inch solid birch dovetail drawers and Blum hardware as standard rather than as an upcharge. It carries KCMA, CARB2 and TSCA Title VI certification under the Q12 program, and a limited lifetime warranty on purchases made on or after 1 October 2024. Fabuwood has also taken the Kitchen & Bath Business Readers’ Choice Award for cabinetry five times in seven years.
Where are Fabuwood cabinets made?
They are assembled in the United States from US and globally sourced components. The main facility is a one-million-square-foot plant in Newark, New Jersey. A second manufacturing facility opened in Tijuana, Mexico in January 2025 alongside a Southern California distribution center. The custom arm, Plain & Fancy, builds in Pennsylvania.
Are Fabuwood cabinets real wood?
Partly, which is the correct answer for this tier. Door stiles and rails are solid wood joined with mortise and tenon, drawer boxes are 5/8-inch solid birch, and Allure boxes are plywood. The door center panel is 3/8-inch MDF, which is deliberate on painted doors because MDF does not move seasonally and so the paint does not crack at the joint.
What is the cost difference between professional installation and DIY RTA assembly?
Professional cabinet installation typically runs $50 to $300 per linear foot, or $40 to $80 an hour. Assembling RTA yourself removes the assembly portion but not the hanging and leveling, and hanging is the part that determines whether your doors line up. Budget one to three hours per cabinet if you have not done it before. Homeowners who take this route consistently report saving enough to upgrade their countertops, and just as consistently report it was harder than expected.
Which door style and finish is least likely to yellow or scratch over time?
Stained wood and warm-toned painted finishes hide wear far better than bright white. Pure whites are the most likely to yellow, especially near a range or in direct sun, and they show every chip. A Shaker profile hides scratches better than a high-gloss slab, because gloss reflects every mark. If low maintenance is the priority, choose a satin or matte finish in a warm neutral and skip high gloss entirely.
What is the best material for a kitchen cabinet box?
Plywood, at half an inch or thicker, with a one-piece plywood back. It resists moisture, holds screws over decades, and does not swell permanently after a sink leak the way particle board does. Solid wood is used for face frames and door stiles and rails but rarely for full boxes, because it moves with humidity.
Are Shaker cabinets made of real wood?
Usually the stiles and rails, meaning the frame of the door, are solid wood. The flat center panel is often MDF, and on painted doors that is a deliberate choice rather than a shortcut, because MDF does not expand and contract seasonally so the paint does not crack at the joint. On stained Shaker doors the center panel is normally veneered plywood or solid wood so the grain matches.
What are the most popular kitchen cabinet colors for 2026?
Neutrals still lead, named by 96 percent of professionals in NKBA’s 2026 report, but they have shifted warm toward cream, taupe and mushroom. Green is the leading accent at 86 percent with blue at 78 percent. Wood grain is displacing paint, with 59 percent saying it is growing and 51 percent naming white oak the most popular species.
How long does it take to get new cabinets?
Stocked configurations ship in about 5 to 7 days and some items go home the same day. Standard factory orders on semi-custom lines run roughly 5 business days to 4 weeks. Custom colors or modifications commonly push that to 6 to 8 weeks, and full custom shops run 6 to 16 weeks from approved drawings. Order cabinets before anything else, because countertop templating cannot start until the boxes are set.
What is the cheapest way to update kitchen cabinets?
Paint and new hardware, at roughly $45 to $90 per linear foot for professional painting. Refacing, which replaces doors and drawer fronts and veneers the exposed boxes, runs about $120 to $250 per linear foot. Both only make sense if the boxes are structurally sound. If they are particle board and sagging, you are spending money to preserve the problem.
Are RTA cabinets good quality?
They can be. RTA describes how the cabinet ships, not what it is made of. Plenty of RTA lines use plywood boxes, dovetail drawers and soft-close hardware, and plenty use particle board and staples. Apply the same three checks you would to any cabinet: plywood box, dovetail drawer, named-brand hinge. If all three come back yes, the only real difference is who does the assembly labor.
How many cabinets do I need for a 10×10 kitchen?
A 10-by-10 is an industry pricing standard rather than a real room. It assumes roughly 40 linear feet of cabinetry, typically about 20 feet of base and 20 feet of wall, which usually works out to somewhere between 14 and 18 boxes depending on widths. Use it to compare quotes between suppliers, then have your own kitchen measured before you order.
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About the author
Hatice Halac writes for In Stock Today Cabinets, an authorized Fabuwood and FIBO distributor with showrooms in Alexandria and Fairfax VA, Columbia MD, Bear DE, Roselle IL and Houston TX. She works alongside the showroom design teams and writes the Fabuwood comparison series, which judges Fabuwood honestly against brands the company does not sell.
