Kitchens
Custom kitchen cabinets, measured from your walls
A kitchen is thirty-odd boxes that have to agree with each other and with a room that probably isn't square. We design the layout around how you actually cook, build the boxes to the room's real dimensions, and install them with the reveals even and the doors quiet.
What "custom" buys you in a kitchen
Full-height pantry walls with no filler strips. An island sized to your aisle widths, not to a catalog increment. Drawers where the catalog puts doors, because drawers are what you reach into forty times a day. Corners that use their space instead of losing it. And a finish chosen from wood and paint, not from a laminate swatch ring.
It also buys tolerance for the house. Marion kitchens in the older neighborhoods carry a century of settling - floors that fall an inch across the room, plaster that bows, soffits hiding ductwork that isn't moving. Stock boxes meet those rooms with shims and caulk. Boxes built to the measure meet them exactly.
Kitchen cabinet installation, done by the builder
The crew that installs your kitchen is the crew that built it. That closes the classic gap where an installer discovers the order doesn't fit and starts modifying finished cabinets on sawhorses in your driveway. If something needs adjusting, the people adjusting it made it - and the even reveal around every inset door survives the trip.
- Layout and elevation drawings agreed before anything is cut
- Boxes, doors, and finish from one shop - one point of accountability
- Counter templating and appliance coordination included
- Two to four installation days for most full kitchens
Islands & pantries
The two upgrades Marion kitchens ask for most
A working island - seating on one side, storage on both ends, sized so two people can pass behind a stool - and a pantry wall that swallows the small-appliance clutter. Both are where custom beats stock hardest: the island because standard sizes rarely fit real aisles, the pantry because full-height custom boxes use every inch to the ceiling.
Detail
Hinges, slides & the quiet parts
Soft-close undermount slides rated for the weight of a drawer full of cast iron. Hinges set into the face frame, adjusted in three axes until the gap is even all the way around. It's the hardware you never think about again - which is the point.
Kitchen questions
Asked before most Marion kitchen projects
What does a custom kitchen cost compared to big-box cabinets?
Expect custom to run roughly 1.5-3x a big-box order of the same footprint - most full Marion kitchens land between $12,000 and $35,000. The gap narrows fast in old or awkward rooms, where stock orders eat money in fillers, modifications, and installer change orders. You get an exact written number after the measure, not a per-linear-foot guess.
Can you match the look of an old Marion house?
That is most of the job here. Inset doors with a beaded face frame for a 1920s foursquare, flat slab fronts for a mid-century ranch, painted shaker for everything between - built in whatever wood and finish the house calls for, not whatever a catalog stocks.
Do you handle the countertops and appliances too?
Cabinets, installation, and coordination. We template for the counter fabricator, build around your appliance spec sheets, and set panel-ready units flush. You choose the counter and appliances; the boxes will be ready for them to the millimeter.
How disruptive is installation?
For a full kitchen, plan on two to four days of installation after demolition. Because the boxes arrive built and finished, there is no weeks-long carpentry camp in your house - the long work happens in the shop.
Start with a measure, not a commitment
Describe the kitchen and what bothers you about it. The measure and the written number come before any decision does.
Request an estimate
Describe the room. Get a real number, in writing.
A few sentences is plenty - which room, roughly how big, painted or stained, and when you hope to have it done. You hear back from a cabinetmaker, not a call center, and the estimate arrives in writing. Prefer to start out loud? (740) 736-3805.
- The number comes in writing before anything is scheduled - materials and labor together
- Measured from your actual walls, floors, and ceilings - not a catalog's standard boxes
- One Marion-area point of contact from the first measure to the last hinge adjustment