You have many kitchen cabinet choices, but you can break it down to three basic approaches, with a fourth option you may not have considered.

• At the top end, you can go with completely customized cabinets. You hire a custom cabinet builder to build you tailor made cabinets from scratch. This is the most expensive category, and can easily start at $20,000 and up. With this approach, everything depends on the expertise, fine craftsman skills and experience of your cabinet builder. If you have an unusual floor or space plan, or you’re interested in some unique cabinet designs, this may be the best way to go. By the way, we have many years of experience with custom cabinetry fabrication and installation at Z.Z Daily Construction.
• Premium brand pre-manufactured cabinets from companies like KraftMaid.  Premium brand cabinet manufactures can offer excellent quality, choices of materials, a variety of hardware options, and  with many designs and styles to choose from. Most cabinets come in standard dimensions and sizes, so you have a little less flexibility than with custom cabinets when it comes to odd sizes and dimensions to fit your ideal kitchen plan. Kitchen cabinets in this category typically run between $10,000 and $20,000 for the average kitchen remodel.
• Budget priced kitchen cabinets from the big home improvement centers like Home Depot and Lowes. Many customers start here when shopping for cabinets, most likely because of the familiarity, and a sense that this will be the money saving choice. We generally don’t recommend the home centers for kitchen cabinets. These cabinets tend to be fairly low quality, inferior materials and construction, and poor hardware options.  In the end, many folks don’t actually save that much money with the home center cabinet choices.  Worse yet, you can end up stuck with kitchen cabinets that leave you dissapointed everytime you step into your kitchen, and you may have to live with this choice for years.

A fourth option, which you may not have thought about, is Ikea for kitchen cabinets. Ikea Kitchen Cabinets offer solid quality, good materials, durable construction, nice hardware upgrades and are available in many styles and designs.

And Ikea cabinets are easier on the budget, coming in at substantially lower prices than the premium brands. Sometimes as much as a 1/3 the cost.

In fact, in some cases, people have found Ikea cabinets lower in price than selections at the home improvement centers, and Ikea kitchen cabinets are definitely better quality than what you’ll find at outlets like Home Depot.

There are thousands of satisfied customers that are delighted with their Ikea choice, and we’re happy to recommend Ikea if you’re thinking about going in this direction.

One important consideration when choosing Ikea for your kitchen cabinets. Find a qualified Ikea kitchen cabinet installer. Z.Z. Daily Construction has a lot of experience installing Ikea kitchens.

If you’re looking for a skilled and qualified company out here in the Ventura, Ojai and Santa Barbara area to help you with your Ikea kitchen cabinet installation, be sure to contact us at Z.Z. Daily Construction. We’d like to help make sure your next kitchen remodel comes out a huge success!