Modern kitchen cabinets - Ikea to Pedini to Balthaup

designer kitchens are made in factories....local cabinet makers can not create the overall look and feel of most manufactured kitchens.

it's more than the blum hinges.  it's all in the details.  pedeni, boffi, bulthaup, poliform.  you get what you pay for.

I disagree. I looked at Alno kitchens and they gave me a price of $45,000 for our kitchen. I had a local cabinet guy make a knockoff for $27,000. Stainless steel edge banding and the exact foil material Alno uses. I know Alno will have a better made product because it is made on million dollar machines but the real question is how much better? If I have to pay $20,000 more for 4% better quality, well then no thanks.

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David - the backsplash tile is from Ann Sacks.

One name I haven't seen mentioned here is Ernesto Meda. Their modern kitchens are absolutely beautiful, very elegant and clean. I was quoted $41,000 for the cabinets for my LV Home. They also quoted $25,000 for another (lovely) line with cheaper cabinets. 

If I had the money, then I'd love the Ernesto Meda kitchen. Another very nice modern kitchen design is from Henry Built in Seattle, and quite reasonable at $20K.

Since both quotes are way outside my price range, I'm almost certainly going with Rocio Romero's suggestion, the white gloss IKEA Akurum cabinets, which will come in at under $5K. I'll be adding Slate (black) Paperstone counter tops from EcoHome Improvement in Emeryville for another $4K.

- Steve

Previously Jason wrote:

I disagree. I looked at Alno kitchens and they gave me a price of $45,000 for our kitchen. I had a local cabinet guy make a knockoff for $27,000. Stainless steel edge banding and the exact foil material Alno uses. I know Alno will have a bigger made product because it is made on million dollar machines but the real question is how much better? If I have to pay $20,000 more for 4% better quality, well then no thanks.

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 Your new kitchen is beautiful.  If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I would like the name of your cabinet guy.

I am interested in replicating the  Pedini look.

 

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My wife and I are building a new house and have been struck by the design of Poggenpohl, Alno, Balthaup, Poliform etc. We came across Pedini as a slightly lower cost alternative @ $700-800 per linear foot v. $1000+ per linear foot for Poggenpohl, Balthaup etc.   http://www.davonne.com.au

Just ran across this company, really nice

http://plastolux.com/modern-kitchens-eastvold-custom-woodworks.html

Laurie,

Cabinet Masters in Dallas made them.

Talk to Mike Baird at (214) 821-6200.

Here is a photo of the kitchen finished.

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Previously Laurie Warner wrote:

 Your new kitchen is beautiful.  If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I would like the name of your cabinet guy.

I am interested in replicating the  Pedini look.

Has anyone used Sherr's cabinets?

http://www.scherrs.com/

We're thinking of having them do the boxes and having the fronts locally made. We're going for flat panel, full overlay, white matt lacquer. Please advise... They can do more custom work and have lots of options, yet are on par price-wise with IKEA.

We had a local craftsman here in Dallas do our cabinets (and the pecan counter tops). Quality work and 1/2 of what a 'commercial' factory wants. Plus the look is always unique. 

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They are gorgeous. Did he build the boxes also, or just the fronts?

Thank you for the kind words!  He built everything -- very talented, one-man shop.

I am starting to screen local contractors to do custom cabinets. Ironically, prices have come down about 50% of what I was hearing about 18 months ago. Some of these guys are really starving for business. Most bids are coming in at $10,000 to $15,000.

We've also moved away from Pedini, which is who we were going to go with. They have beautiful stuff, but the Euro kept going up, and as it did, so did their pricing. At that time, the local custom guys were as costly, if not more, than Pedini. Now, it seems things have flipped.

Any advice or insight to offer?

thanks...

Just 3 basic things:
1) our designer/builder had used the craftsman before, so knew his work.
2) he took us to 3 of his previously done homes, where the owners let us see the results first hand. That was of particular concern to us WRT to the decision to go with some pecan countertops, as to wear and tear, upkeep, etc.
3) after deciding on cabinet design, we shopped the handles ourselves.

1 & 2 may not be something that can happen everywhere, but references and seeing something, even if pictures, is key.
Good luck!

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Previously Jason wrote:

I know there have been some threads on kitchen systems in the past but it seems most of them focus around particular brand names, etc. We historically used Ikea cabinets in our projects and have found them to be a great buy for the money (typically around $6,000 installed) but have had a hard time finding a "next step up" modern cabinet system - something in the $10,000 to $20,000 range. Siematic, Balthaup, PoggenPohl, Nell, Belle, (the list goes on) are all nice kitchen systems, but range in price from $60,000 to $90,000 for a large kitchen (35-45 lineal feet)

Thanks to Diane Duffey on the lead for Pedini. I am having them price out some things. They appear to be half of a Siematic kitchen (around $30,000-ish) but am looking for more midrange options. Anyone know of any? Seems like there is a HUGE gap in modern cabinet systems from the low end (Ikea) to the high-end (Siematic, Balthaup) that someone should be working in? I wish Ikea would come up with a premium line that is $10,000 to $14,000 a kitchen.

Our experience with Ikea:

1. Good value
2. Readily available (under 4 weeks)
3. Decent door styles (although with Hallarum gone and black/brown unavailable, it is getting worst)

Anyone have any leads or ideas?

Thanks,

Jason

 

Jason,

We recently were in the same predicament.  Unable to afford "high-end" cabinetry as you mentioned, but not fully comfortable with IKEA (although we like the style).  We found what we think is a perfect solution (at least for us).  The cabinetry is called Viola Park, and it is produced by Henrybuilt, an excellent high-end cabinet company that saw the demand for lower priced, quality modern modular cabinets, and really delivered.  A very unique buying and design system. I am beginning a renovation of my home and kitchen right now and began writing about these cabinets in my blog, which has the links to the companies.   http://purcellart.wordpress.com.  Please check it out, and good luck.

Arthur

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Mordo,

Not sure where you got your experience in the cabinet trade but if you are correct, how come there's not even one decent lower price cabinet out there, that can deliver the same finish and attention to detail the higher end guys do...? If you are an IKEA kitchens fan, for the price - I can't argue with you, but their quality is way sub par... Their doors look so cheap, that nobody (not even an uneducated consumer) can claim they are the same...

On the traditional doors, their competition is really the low end American and Chinese cabinets and so they can still compete. But on the modern kitchens, they simply are in a different league than the better European brands. Have you looked at their doors up close...?!? They also have extremely limited SKUs (choices of cabinets) because it is all from stock. So it is nearly impossible to design a decent kitchen. Not to mention that fact that they are all knocked down in a box and need to be assembled...

Example to the above: Look at any of the modern kitchens in this site www.pediniusa.com - they don't offer 90% of the cabinet sizes and options in any of these designs...

I rest my case.

kitchenguy

I would suggest you to visit once to watsolconcepts because in there so many of varieties and designs of kitchen items and etc.

I think both kitchen designs given in snaps are very elegant and flashy but these designs are not give any  guarantee to use kitchen space optimistically for happening smooth operations like cooking.

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