Buying my first set of Cabinets? Tips?

[DFBrews]

As the title says buying my first set of cabinets looking at shaker gray ceiling height we currently have 2009 vintage fix and flip Home Depot garbage. Garbage.

kitchen is small 13x9

plan is to buy all of the upper cabinets first and then the lowers as I need to do the floor too.

I have found ads for factory direct on cl but have not contacted them and I talked to Lowe?s cabinet designers.

install and if needed assembly will be done by me.

[Wulf202]

Break out the woodworking gear and make minimum wage doing your own?

[Irving]

How long are you planning on living there?

[Great-Kazoo]

By the time you do the floors, replacing the base cabinets. There's a chance that style may not be available. Or not same wood grain & color match

[DFBrews]

Break out the woodworking gear and make minimum wage doing your own?

How long are you planning on living there?

By the time you do the floors, replacing the base cabinets. There's a chance that style may not be available. Or not same wood grain & color match

Wulf I’ve built a set from scratch out of hickory and Baltic birch plywood for a buddies house once. It was back when extras used to have a great hardwood selection.
The amount of other stuff that needs done in the house makes buying a more viable option at this point.

Irving 3 more years minimum less then 10

Kazoo i have considered this but shaker seems to be the new new and hopefully be around for the 1 yr timeline I am looking at to have it all done

[Irving]

Are you installing the flooring under the base cabinets? That can be a hassle in the event of a water loss; especially if you go with granite counter tops.

[brutal]

Are you installing the flooring under the base cabinets? That can be a hassle in the event of a water loss; especially if you go with granite counter tops.

Wouldn't everything have to come out anyway?

Our new kitchen was installed over wall-wall new hardwood.

[Irving]

Wouldn't everything have to come out anyway?

Our new kitchen was installed over wall-wall new hardwood.

No, and even in situations like yours, often times they just cut out the floor up to the cabinet, as long as no moisture under the cabinet. Don't mean to high jack this thread though.

DFBrews, like any remodel project, try to spend below what will be returned in value at time of sale. Unless you just want to. That's always a good enough reason to do something.

[Great-Kazoo]

Wouldn't everything have to come out anyway?

Our new kitchen was installed over wall-wall new hardwood.

Or would it not be an issue with a leak. Where the flooring went up to the cabinets & dishwasher. Then find out one morning, gee this floor feels squishy. Since the dw was leaking for about 2-3 days, going under the flooring and not over it.


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[JohnnyEgo]

I might build my own carcasses, but I'd probably sub out the doors. They are a hard-wear item and I'd rather have the consistency and durability of a fully cured production finish. Actually, building one cabinet is fun, building and installing a full kitchen kind of sucks. I'd probably just pay somebody to do it for me on the time value of money theory alone.