Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Jacksonville, FL

Tier is the first decision and it controls everything after it. Stock ships from inventory in fixed sizes. Semi custom kitchen cabinets come from a factory catalog with some depth and width changes. Custom means we draw the run to your walls and build the boxes here.

Linear foot pricing counts the run along the wall and usually includes the upper and the base together, so a 24 foot kitchen with an island is quoted at 28 to 32 feet.

Semi custom is fair value in a plain rectangle with 8 foot ceilings. Go custom when you have 9 or 10 foot ceilings to reach, a window in the wrong place, or you want inset doors.

Kitchen cabinet design starts with where you stand, so we mark the sink, the cooktop and the refrigerator first. A main aisle between two runs wants 42 to 48 inches, 36 is the floor in a galley, and you want 15 inches of landing counter on the refrigerator handle side. Bases run 34 1/2 inches high before the counter, and uppers start about 18 inches above it.

Drawer bases beat door bases below the counter, since you can see a drawer from above without kneeling. We plan a pullout trash base near the sink, a tray divider by the oven, and full depth uppers where the wall allows, then push overflow into pantry shelving.

The box is the part you never see and the part that decides whether your custom kitchen cabinetry is still tight in fifteen years.

A dishwasher line that weeps overnight is the common failure here. Plywood dries and the cabinet stays square. Particleboard wicks water up through the core, the bottom bellies, and the front edge splits. That cabinet is replaceable, not repairable.

We build from 3/4 inch plywood with dovetailed maple drawer boxes on full extension undermount slides, rated 75 pounds standard and 100 to 120 heavy duty. See custom drawers for how those boxes go together.

Door style sets the look and a real share of the price, since fitting labor changes with it.

We spray a catalyzed finish rather than rolling wall paint on a door, and seal all six faces including the bottom edge, which otherwise drinks humidity until the paint releases in a line. Near the ocean at Jacksonville Beach and Ponte Vedra we specify stainless hinges and pulls, since plated hardware pits within a few seasons of salt air. Our shaker style page goes deeper on rail widths.

Plenty of companies in town sell cabinets. Fewer kitchen cabinet makers cut and finish them here, which matters the day a wall comes in a half inch out of plumb.

Three questions sort it quickly. What are the boxes made of, down to the back panel? Is the finish sprayed and catalyzed in a booth, or brushed on site? Do you field measure after demolition? A local shop can also build one odd piece, like a 19 1/2 inch cabinet for a bump out, which is exactly what a catalog cannot do.

Older houses in Avondale, San Marco and Springfield rarely have a square kitchen. A plastered wall can lean a half inch over 8 feet, so we scribe end panels to the real wall instead of leaving a tapered shadow line.

Many homes here from the 1950s through the 1970s have block exterior walls with thin furring and no stud to hit. We anchor a ledger into the block and hang the uppers from it, keeping an air gap behind the backs so the cabinet is not pressed against masonry that sweats in August.

New construction in Nocatee and Bartram Park moves the fussy work to ceiling height, where 9 foot ceilings leave a dead 18 inch gap above a standard upper. We run the uppers tall and cap them with crown molding.

We visit, measure roughly, talk through layout and budget, then hand you a drawing and a fixed price. A 3D rendering is worth the step, since moving a wall oven on paper costs nothing.

After approval, demolition happens and we field measure the bare room. Shop build and finish takes 5 to 10 weeks, with finish complexity driving the schedule more than cabinet count.

Kitchen cabinet installation runs 2 to 4 days. Uppers go first, bases are shimmed dead level, and only then does the countertop fabricator template, because a template off unlevel bases makes a seam you will stare at forever. Stone returns 7 to 14 days later, then we hang doors and set hardware.

Door construction moves the number first, since inset costs 20 to 30 percent more than overlay in fitting time alone. Finish is second, because glazed finishes need cure time between coats. Pullouts and dividers are third. These are typical Northeast Florida ranges rather than a quote, and a firm number comes after we measure.