Cabinet Options (February 9, 2009)

Kitchen and vanity base cabinets can be customized in many different ways. With all these options, it is possible to create any kitchen, bathroom or home office that you can envision. See our page on creating a home office for more ideas.

Wood Species

All cabinets are available in pine, maple, oak, and cherry. See the wood selections page for more details on the choices of wood.

Doors and Door Tops

All cabinets are available with several styles of door. Cabinet doors can also have four possible shapes of top (square, arch, or cathedral). Base cabinets can have a full door (one that extends from the bottom all the way to the top) instead of a door with a drawer above it. You can also choose cabinets with no doors if you prefer to purchase your doors from another source or if you want to get a different style of custom door. In addition, you can either keep or eliminate the drawers, depending on whether you plan to buy standard-height or full-height doors. If you plan to purchase standard-height doors, don't forget to order matching drawer fronts (the wood that attaches to the front of the drawer box). 

 
 
 

Full-Overlay Doors

Standard cabinets have a 1-3/4 inch wide face frame and a door that overlaps the frame by 1/2-inch, leaving about 1-1/4 inches of the face frame exposed. Full-overlay doors overlap the face frame by 1-1/2 inches, leaving only about 1/4-inch of the frame exposed.

Panel Drawer Fronts

Standard drawer fronts are made of solid slabs of wood. Certain cabinet styles are available with a panel drawer front, which consists of a solid-wood frame around a flat or raised panel.

Remove Center Stile

The stile is the vertical strip of wood that separates two doors and their compartments. If it is removed, the doors will be widened so that there will be no visible gap between them. The two drawers (or drawer fronts) will also be converted to a single drawer (or drawer front). This option will allow you to place larger objects inside the cabinet opening.

With Center Stile:	No Center Stile:

Single Door Options

For cabinets with only one door, you need to specify where to place the hinge. Alternately, you can replace it with two smaller doors. However, cabinets that are smaller than 12 inches in width will have solid-wood doors (i.e., no raised panel, beadboard, glass, or louver designs) since there will be no space for a panel in between the left and right frames.

Blind Options

A blind cabinet is one that will be placed in a comer and will be partially covered by an adjoining cabinet. The portion that will be covered will not have any doors and is called the blind side. The exposed portion of the cabinet will have a door or doors. You need to specify whether the blind portion will be on the right or the left side of the cabinet. The following photo is of a blind right cabinet:

Combo Options

Combination vanity cabinets come with a panel of drawers on one side and a door on the other. You need to specify the side on which the door will be located.

Finished Sides

Standard cabinets come with Pine, Maple, Oak, or Cherry solid wood face frames and Birch plywood sides. However, if one or both ends of a cabinet will be exposed and you plan to stain the exposed side, you should upgrade it to a "finished side," which will replace the Birch with a higher grade of Pine, Maple, Oak, or Cherry plywood. "Finished side" refers to a side that is of sufficient quality to accept a quality finish, but it is still unfinished (i.e. not pre-stained or painted).

Custom Dimensions

Cabinets will be built to your exact order, so you can specify virtually any size you desire. However, they can generally only be modified in two dimensions at a time (e.g. height and width, width and depth, or height and depth). Simply choose the next larger size cabinet and indicate the smaller size. The fee for each dimension that is changed covers the additional time and effort required when building your cabinet. Diagonal shaped corner cabinets can only be changed in height. If you need a cabinet in a height or width larger than the largest cabinet available, there will be a 25% fee for each dimension that is changed. If you need to increase the depth of a cabinet, there will be a fee of 10% per additional inch. The maximum depth is 24 inches. If the option to increase the depth or height is not available for a product, please contact us to place a special order.

Drawer Glides

Drawers with 3/4-extension slides do not pull all the way out of the opening and stop with about 4" of space inside the cabinet. Full-extension glides can support 75 lbs and allow the drawer to pull all the way out. Premium grade cabinets can have 3/4-extension undermount self-closing slides or full-extension slides. Budget or Builder grade cabinets will have 3/4-extension side-mount or full-extension slides. Below is a photo of a full-extension drawer slide. 

Tilt-Out Trays Sink and sink-front cabinets come with false panels at the top where the sink will go. To make use of this space, you can install your own tilt-out trays for storage of small items, but we can no longer install them for you. We recommend using the following link to buy tilt-out trays.
Towel Racks A towel rack can be added to a kitchen base cabinet door that is at least 14 inches wide. Generally, this means they can be installed on single-door cabinets that are at least 17 inches wide and on double-door cabinets that are at least 32 inches wide. We can no longer install these for you, but you can buy them in the accessories section.
Wire Baskets Wire baskets can be installed on doors that are at least 14 inches wide. Generally, this means they can be installed on single-door cabinets that are at least 17 inches wide and on double-door cabinets that are at least 32 inches wide. We can no longer install these for you, but you can buy them in the accessories section.
Pull-Out Trays Pull-out trays can be installed in standard depth base cabinets. Please indicate where you want your pull-out tray installed if there is a choice of left or right side or the bottom or middle of the opening. If you remove the center stile from a cabinet, the pull-out tray will be much wider than normal. We do not recommend making them too wide or they will not be able to support as much weight.

Door Hardware

Cabinets come without hardware, but a small hardware selection is available in multiple styles in the accessories section. If you prefer to buy your own hardware from another source, we recommend using this link to find a great selection of knobs and pulls from Rockler.com. Kitchen and vanity doors come pre-installed with a hidden-profile hinge. The old style 180-degree opening low-profile "knife" hinge is used on bookcases and other furniture and will still be available by special request.

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