We did our house with Henrybuilt in 2006 before the NY showroom was open, pricing increases, and contraints imposed by the business going volume.  We are lucky to live in Kirkland which is close to the Seattle showroom.  Kitchen, Dining, Laundry, and 3 1/2 bathrooms.  Two years after and we could not be more pleased with the cabinets.  We did the quarter-sans walnut throughout with concrete counters in the Kitchen and Basaltina counters in the baths with Ann Sacks glass tile.  The Architect and designers were outstanding and helped pull all the materials/pallette together for our project.  You pay for what you get with Henrybuilt and that much more.  They arranged and recommended installers for their project.  Pay for good quality installers when installing high quality materials or you could be disappointed.  Like most things, there is certainly a "way" to install these cabinets and tolerences that need to be met.  It took us about 3 months of design iterations for our HB cabinets for all our rooms and in the end our HB architect was spot on with all our needs and her design recommendations. 

If I can help with any questions, please feel free to contact me or post.

Can some of you HB experienced folk try to classify HB prices for me? Where are they situated in a scale between these players?

Siematic, Poggenpohl, IKEA, etc. I thought they were well beyond even those high-end Euro companies, but some of the posts here seem to say otherwise. I've only seen their pics, so I cannot conclude any construction/material quality, but they seem to be the real deal craftsmanship that those Euro ones can't even touch.

If I'm going to pay Euro company prices, I'd at least want to get REAL quality. Otherwise IKEA is a pretty damn good value given their construction is not too far from those Euro ones. They just lack the diversity in style and features.

Previously uncleho wrote:

Can some of you HB experienced folk try to classify HB prices for me? Where are they situated in a scale between these players?

Siematic, Poggenpohl, IKEA, etc. I thought they were well beyond even those high-end Euro companies, but some of the posts here seem to say otherwise. I've only seen their pics, so I cannot conclude any construction/material quality, but they seem to be the real deal craftsmanship that those Euro ones can't even touch.

If I'm going to pay Euro company prices, I'd at least want to get REAL quality. Otherwise IKEA is a pretty damn good value given their construction is not too far from those Euro ones. They just lack the diversity in style and features.

uncleho,

HB prices, I am told have increased significantly since we did our project in 2006.  Our kitchen was considered large by HB standards.  Cabinet costs depend on materials.  At the bottom scales there is lamanate --> bamboo --> plain walnut --> quartersans walnut --> teak --> wenge.  Wenge was the most expensive in 2006 and am not sure where wood prices are these days so it may have changed.  We did quartersans walnut and our cabinet package alone was ~ $40,000.  This does not include installation, or countertops.  We looked at B&B Italia which was our second choice.  Although HB was less, we were not impressed with B&B which uses particle board boxes.  Also keep in mind HB uses Blum hardware with softclose for drawers and leaf doors.  Also with HB you get CAD drawings outlining specs within 1/8", an electical plan layout, and we got countertop layout for our concrete which was fabricated by dogpaw.  Also a local company which fabricated our concrete offsite.  www.dogpaw.com

I would differ that IKEA is close to high end Euro cabinets, and there is no comparison to HB. 

IMHO IKEA has some good style but significantly lacks construction quality when compared to B&B and further from HB. Best of luck.

Have you looked into Pedini? They are a good buy for what you get. 40 lineal feet runs about $20,000 to $25,000.