Cabinetry
Stock cabinets come in 3-inch increments. Your walls don’t. We design and build custom cabinetry to your home’s exact measurements — kitchens, bathroom vanities, living room built-ins, mudroom drop zones, and home offices — in the wood, finish, and hardware you actually want.
The difference
Cabinets that run to the ceiling instead of collecting dust on top. Drawers where you actually reach, sized for your pots instead of a factory average. A pantry that uses the full depth of that weird alcove beside the fridge. Filler strips are what stock cabinets use to apologize for not fitting — custom cabinetry doesn’t need them.
It’s also the difference you can feel: solid drawer boxes, soft-close hardware rated for decades, and finishes applied to the wood you chose rather than a laminate pretending to be it.
Where it goes
Cabinetry is the backbone of the custom kitchens we build in Raleigh, but it goes everywhere: vanities for bathroom remodels, media walls and wet bars in finished basements, window seats and wardrobes in attic conversions, bookcases flanking a fireplace, and the mudroom lockers that finally give the backpacks a home. For a close look at the finish quality, browse the Lake Gaston kitchen project.
Discover the remodeling services available at Raleigh Custom Kitchens. We specialize in custom kitchens, bathroom remodeling, cabinetry, countertop replacement, attic conversions, basement finishing, and whole-home renovations to enhance your home’s beauty and functionality.
The process
We measure your space, design the cabinetry around how you’ll use it, and confirm every dimension, finish, and hardware choice before anything is built. Then it’s fabricated, delivered, and installed by our team — the same people accountable for the design being right. You can see finished cabinetry in nearly every project in our custom kitchen gallery.
Trends
Painted shaker in deep greens and blues leads every request list, followed by white oak with visible grain, brass and matte-black hardware, and appliance panels that make the fridge disappear into the cabinetry wall.
Ceiling-height uppers and deep drawer stacks instead of lower doors have gone from upgrade to default. You can see several of these choices come together in the Mountain Grove kitchen remodel.
Bring us your measurements, your Pinterest board, or just the problem — “we have no pantry” is enough to start.
Usually, yes — but less than most people expect once you compare equal quality. Semi-custom lines close the price gap while giving up the exact-fit advantage. We’ll price both honestly in your consultation.
Maple, oak, walnut, and painted finishes are the most common, but we build in most cabinet-grade species. Painted shaker in deep greens and blues has been the most requested finish in Raleigh for the past few years.
Often, yes. Adding a pantry or island that matches your current kitchen is a common smaller project.
Typically four to six weeks of fabrication after the design is finalized. When cabinetry is part of a remodel, it’s ordered before demolition so the project never stalls waiting on it.
Our focus is new custom builds, but we’ll tell you honestly in the consultation if your existing boxes are sound enough that refacing makes more financial sense for you.
