If you build or buy your cabinets, and know your numbers, take a look here and comment, please.
The pic shows a straightforward bath vanity, which is built using frameless construction. That means it is three separate boxes, ganged up. If done in faceframe construction it would be one large box with a faceframe, and a couple of stretchers and braces.
Overall size is 60 3/4″ w x 32″ h x 18″ d.
There are six drawers, all with slab drawerfronts, two false drawerfronts, two hinged doors, and a door panel is used to dress the finished end. The toekick and endwall scribe filler are not shown.
The six drawerboxes are dovetail construction, done using 1/2″ baltic birch, top edges edgebanded.
With the outside finish and species being white pine, some knots OK, clearcoat, toekick to match, what is your cost for a unit like this? Please state your figures as cost and not sell, and say whether you are making or buying, and if doing some of each, say what’s going on.
I am asking because I think I am buying this as right as I can, boxes all CNC cut and KD, all solid wood stuff included in the package. Assembly time for the kit is one hour, to have cabs ready for installation.
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$99,950.01
Thank you, Pete. Your input is always appreciated.
For others that are still reading, the attached pics show material usage for doing the carcase and drawerbox part of the job in frameless boxes.
This pic shows how about 1.5 sheets of 3/4 stock plus less than a half sheet of 1/4 stock are used for the carcases.
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This pic shows drawerbox material usage, the first one being the 12mm (1/2" nominal) material for sides, and the other sheet being the bottoms.
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Another followup from the OP:
A quick phone call to a cab dealer down the road yields this.
A semi-custom shop two states from me will do it all in pine, clearcoat natural, and the quote through this local dealer is $515 plus tax, my pickup.
If from Kraft Maid, a well-known national brand, it has to be birch, because KM stopped doing fronts in white pine. $640 plus tax, my pickup.
Neither of these prices includes a stile and rail end panel, as does the config in the pic in the first post.
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The package bears a cost of about $400 if bought as a KD kit, with tax, freight, delivery to site or shop all included. The end panel is included.
Edited 8/9/2007 1:09 pm ET by Gene_Davis
I have to admit that I havent bought any cabs in a while, but since their are no other posters I'll give it my best educated guess.
A vanity like that used to go for around $80-$100 dollar a foot. That would put it about $400-$500. (As if you couldnt figure that out for yourself already)
That is with the dovetail drawers and with the rail and style panel. On the high end it would be a very good cab as we do have an exceptional craftsman in the area. It wouldnt be like the KM that I have seen with the plastic corner connectors at the top of the cab.
Does KM have a better line than you get at the Big Boxes? The only ones I have seen have been at the orange box.
Re Kraft Maid, the local dealer here has the same product on display as does the Lowe's an hour away.
In looking at the displays, and the books the dealer or Lowe's uses for pricing features and options, I don't see any difference in the program, local dealer versus bigbox. Lowe's and the dealer no doubt have different costs, however.
Edited 8/9/2007 2:34 pm ET by Gene_Davis
A few years back we got asked to put in some KM cabs for a client. They were going to sell and downsize for retirement. When they got there they were crap, and thats putting it nicely.
Me and Ladyfire refused to put them in. The HO got them at Home Depot and got their money back on them.
They then called the above mentioned craftsman and he built them custom for about the same price. Since then I am very leary about KM cabs.