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Measured at three heights
Walls in these houses lean, so widths get taken high, middle and low rather than once at counter height.
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Custom cabinets in St. Matthews mostly go into houses built before 1960, where the room decides the cabinetry rather than the other way round.
Custom cabinets in St. Matthews are nearly always going into a room that was laid out before modern appliances existed. The kitchens are compact, the walls are rarely parallel, and the openings are whatever the original builder made them.
That is why built-to-fit matters more here than in newer parts of the metro. The gain is not luxury, it is the four to six inches per run that stock sizes give away to filler strips.
Original trim is usually still in the house, so new work gets profiled to meet it rather than butting into it.
Walls in these houses lean, so widths get taken high, middle and low rather than once at counter height.
Ends are cut to the wall as it runs, which is what removes the filler gap stock sizes leave behind.
Where the house still has its original millwork, new work is profiled and finished to sit alongside it.
Each stage is signed off before the next one starts.
We measure the room itself rather than working from the plan, because walls are rarely square and the plan is rarely what got built. Every opening gets checked.
You get a layout and a written estimate broken down by stage, so you can see what the doors cost against the boxes against the install. Free, nothing to sign.
Cabinetry is built to the measurements we took, in the wood, door style and finish you picked. Lead time depends on the scope and we tell you before you commit.
Scribed to the walls, levelled, and fixed properly. Hardware adjusted so every door and drawer sits straight before we leave.
Dense pre-1960 building means small kitchens carrying a lot of function. Storage has to work vertically, because there is rarely spare floor to widen a run into.
It also means real remodel spend in the area. Many of these kitchens are on their first proper update in decades, so the work tends to be a full replacement rather than a refresh.
Basements here are usually unfinished and often damp, which matters if laundry or storage cabinetry is going down there. Anything built for a basement in this housing gets raised off the slab and made in materials that tolerate humidity, rather than being treated as an indoor room.
We survey before quoting, and in these houses that survey is longer. Wall lengths at three heights, floor level across the run, and the position of anything original worth keeping.
From there the run is drawn to the room. Where the layout itself is the problem, we will say that moving a door or losing a section of wall gains more than any cabinet choice will.
Build and finish happen in the shop, and fitting scribes everything to the walls as they actually are.
Full replacement is common here, and that is custom kitchen cabinets in Louisville. Where the boxes are sound and the kitchen is simply dated, cabinet refacing in Louisville costs far less.
If the doors are solid hardwood and only the finish has ambered, cabinet refinishing in Louisville keeps the wood and changes the tone. Bathrooms in these houses have the same fit problem, covered by custom bathroom vanities in Louisville.
We also work in cabinets in Prospect and cabinets in The Highlands, and you can see every area we cover around Louisville.
Get a free written estimate and we will measure your St. Matthews kitchen before quoting.
Most of the housing here predates 1960, so walls are rarely plumb and openings are rarely standard. Stock runs finish short and get made up with filler strips. Built to the measurements, the run finishes at the wall.
Yes. Trim profiles and stain get matched to what is already in the house, which matters most where the kitchen opens onto original millwork you are keeping.
It depends entirely on the boxes. A lot of St. Matthews kitchens have been redone once already in the eighties or nineties, and those carcasses are often sound enough to reface. Anything original is usually past it.
Install is the disruptive part and it is measured in days, not weeks, because the cabinetry is built before it arrives. We agree the sequence up front so you know which days you have no sink.
We stay inside about 20 miles of Louisville, close enough to measure, template and install without the schedule slipping. These are the areas we cover most often.
Tell us the room and what you want out of it. You get a written estimate broken down by stage, free, with nothing to sign.