While looking through the kitchen cabinet selection at the local kitchen remodeling boutique and eying up the average contractor installed samples, I stopped abruptly when the total price went over $10,000 before I got out of the low end section.
When I physically balked at these prices, a salesman mentioned that from the tape measure on my belt and the pencil behind my ear that I looked like a do-it-yourself guy and that the price of the kitchen cabinets I was looking at were about half the price shown uninstalled. That also meant undelivered and the $10k discount kitchen cabinets were only down to $5k if I took on the labor and delivery parts of the project.
I went looking for real discount kitchen cabinet dealer and found an actual manufacturer in the suburbs. Expecting to find a warehouse full of dusty crates I instead walked into a showroom that rivaled the “boutique” in everything but price. The secret was their RTA cabinets. RTA means ready to assemble and they came in small tight easily transported boxes.
For a few dollars more I could pick them up assembled. The best part was they were in stock, aisles deep and in every color and style imaginable. So now my $5 -$10k project is under $3k, will be delivered in 7 days not 6 to 8 weeks and I get high quality wood, No Particleboard, No MDF.
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