Learn Building Cabinets from Pros, Tips and Techniques; Design Plans, Custom Made Parts to Build Fine Cabinetry

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Building Cabinets Professional Tips and Techniques, now in your hands, do it Yourself; from design through production phases, finishing and installation... all you need to know how to build heirloom quality fine cabinetry.

If you value the craftsmanship and outstanding quality, long lasting beauty with artistic touches... we invite you to our series of building cabinets yourself pages.

The images through entire site are original; many design ideas and details are unique, and you will only find them here. Building cabinets is what we do for a living and enjoyment.

Building Cabinets by Design (Cherry Fireplace)

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Time frames two weeks, You will have all info you need successfully finish your project:

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Fully functional design (floor plan, elevations and 3D rendering)

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Estimated project cost (based on your input)

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Order list or Components list (numbered, with dimensions)

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Parts list and hardware list (prices, ideas and references)

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Your only obligation is to commit To Finish the project. ... contact us

Building cabinets methods are not the same for the entire industry; small custom shops and mass production plants competing with each other, customers settle for less and make costly mistakes with their choices.

Why share professional building cabinet tips, techniques and specifications? We hope, if we can help you avoid most/some errors, so your projects will run as smooth, as the professionals.

About Measurement, we have no doubt; if your plan building cabinets yourself, knowing how to use the measuring tape will be your top priority. For parts making, we strongly recommend using the Metric System.

Any cabinet available you could call a box, by all means, try to think outside the box, and we will help you build Fine Cabinetry.

Simple gallery photos give you the range of possibilities

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Mahogany Cabinets Entertainment Wall

Mahogany Enter-nt Cabinet Parts

Building Custom Cabinet Posts

Shaping Custom Cabinet Posts

Building Oak Cabinet Parts

Building Cabinet Custom Details

Making Quality Custom Parts

Oak Cabinet Custom Vanity

Irresistible Custom Cabinetry Details

Woodworking Details You Want to Kiss

Custom Cherry Details can Talk

What about Red Beets Taste

Building Custom Cabinetry (Pencil Sketch)

Professional tips; design your plans to enjoy, there are more than only cabinet boxes

Don't hurry to build. Finalize your design and construction steps; working plans with step-by-step clear vision of the process, parts list, sorting, and so on... design plans must be completed before machines are fired up.

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It is so "old fashion" today, at building cabinets procedure, to hold pencil above your ear, and live pencil marks all over the project.

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Design and build your cabinetry to bolster yourself; do it for love, and you can call it Green (no matter what color it is).

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Building Cabinets, Drawer Box and Shaper

The Customer is the product designer! Or for the customer, the Craftsman, will be the engineer-designer, like it was in the past.

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Design tip. Your first design plans should start from ideal scenario (your dream, listing all technical and beauty attributes to be included, like: rounded forms, compact economical space, dimmable lighting, specialties in construction...).

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After analyzing procedures in reality, some of your dream ideas may became too costly, or simply not realistic. Instead of being less than thrilled after, why not do it with planning... you will stay in budget and get the cabinetry you are expecting.

Show me the money before I start (Cost of the project)

Time and Labor the most costly components you have to deal with; from design, drawings, working plans and parts list... too the ordering and sorting materials, cutting, shaping, and finishing parts... it's mostly labor. Relatively in percentages our custom made cabinetry structure looks like this:

Building cabinets process and cost analyzing; design plans, materials and cabinet parts ready to assemble (by customer)

Building Mahogany Entertainment Cabinetry

Mahogany TV Entertainment Cabinetry Set

Here are some customer's notes (speech) from the phone conversation:

"Hey guys, if you can't make better then mass produced product, don't do it ! The market, the houses, the Internet... full of poor quality cabinets, and they made from cheap materials with no craftsmanship attached. Not esthetically appealing, not long lasting, in some cases toxic materials... most of them even bad for garages.
Little or no innovation over past decades; We look to someone like Steve Jobs for inspiration, think outside the box?"
Michael Topounov, Toronto, Canada

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Mahogany, Ready to Assemble Custom Cabinetry

As with all, this custom built unit you can call American Made Cabinets, made in US from the best materials possible. All woodwork and cabinet parts, include doors and panels, moldings and posts, are built at "Henige's Custom Woodworking"
(Michigan, USA)

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Actually, this project we made in parts; ready to assemble cabinets set to be delivered to Toronto, Canada and assembled by owner. The final pictures was received from our customer by e-mail, 37 days after delivering parts to Canada

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Building cabinets pro tip, and design tip for You; Design, and Engineering work are never free, it is highly skilled and carries the most responsibility of the custom cabinetry project.

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Design Plans, Pencil Sketch

Design Plans, KCD 3D Rendering

The table below has nothing to do with labor cost for building this project, unless you can visualize some hidden value; to structure the table, all design plans, cabinet parts list, materials, and construction brainstorming must be complete!, by "Somebody".

Note about numbers in table: all pricing in US funds. We are trying to be realistic as possible; showing our commercial (small business) price level, added sale tax (Michigan, 6 %), and delivery cost (8 % in average, by our experience).

Total of $2393, for materials.

Building Cabinets, Elevation in Metric

Custom Cabinets, Elevation in English

For your convenience comparison Two Measuring Systems; Metric and Imperial (English)

Design and Engineering - $350 (50 p/hr.), 5 hours(software use, construction details...) and 2 hours for communications (phone, e-mail, sample photos, etc.).

Building cabinets production stage. Even for professionals, to estimate timing for production the biggest challenge; our real time was 76 man-hours total (42 hr. woodworking and 34 for finishing).