Ashley W.
Full Kitchen Reno on a Tight Budget
My husband and I recently purchased our second home, our first fixer upper. We our young and our budget was tight but thankfully I come from a long line of general contractors. I called my dad and asked him where I should buy cabinets. While he looked, we got a quote from a local custom cabinet company run by a friend's family. Our quote came in at $26,000. I was speechless as that was more than our entire renovation budget. A few days later, my dad sent me a link to the Kitchen Cabinet Kings website. I quickly added "approximately" the cabinets we would need to complete the same design we had come up with with the custom company. My total was $5,000. SOLD. We chose the Thompson White cabinets and, 6 months later, I couldn't be happier. They are sturdy, real wood, easy to clean, and soft close which is great for our mischievous 1 year old. I've never bought cabinets before and I was honestly really stressed out about the idea of being in charge of ordering everything. I measured our space at least 50 times and carefully chose which cabinets would fit best and be most functional. The whole time I was choosing I was able to live chat with customer service who made it easy for me to find exactly what I needed and help me find dimensions I couldn't. She made the experience very simple and I felt confident when I placed my order. We were working in a huge time crunch because having no kitchen for over a month for a family of four was starting to wear on us so I was delighted when our shipment arrived in less than a week. My husband and his friend had all of our cabinets assembled in about 5 hours. They were ready to go as soon as we finished laying the tile. It took my husband and our friend 2 days to hang the cabinets but that was working around 5 children under 4 and for maybe 4 or 5 hours at a time. It looked very easy and they didn't seem to complain much. We chose to follow a custom design which included setting back our sink cabinet so my husband ended up making custom pieces to fit in the angled gaps, it took him a few minutes to cut and then a couple days to paint. They look seamless. I'm sure we could have ordered the filler pieces but it was quicker for us to just make them ourselves. I have several friends who are either buying new homes or thinking of remodeling their current kitchen and I recommend Kitchen Cabinet Kings to all of them. You can't beat the price and quality, I think it would have cost just as much for the crappy MDF cabinets at Lowe's or Home Depot. Our master bathroom is on the to-do list and I already have our cabinets picked out!