We remodeled our house in 2010. I was having a very hard time deciding on which cabinet company to go with....there are so many of them...I must have paid in-depth visits to at least 7 or 8 other cabinet stores, both local shops and those selling out of state cabinets, before finding Kizanis Cabinets. Anyway it was both William Anderson, a wonderful designer, and John Seuss, a really good hardwood floor professional, who recommended I give Tim Rapley (owner of Kizanis Cabinets) a call. I was immediately sold after seeing their cabinets. You can tell the fine quality of their work by the look and touch of their cabinets.
Tim Rapley, beside being an all around nice guy, was a real professional who knows to ask the right questions to get me the cabinet look that I wanted. For those of us who order cabinets maybe twice in our lifetime, we aren't going to know the various details that needs to be specified. For example, if you want the sides of your cabinet to look like the style of the doors instead of a flat panel, you have to say you want a finished end panel. If Tim didn't ask and explain that to me, it wouldn't have occurred to me that I have these choices. I am very happy with all of the cabinets that I ordered from Tim. As you can see from the pictures I attached, the cabinets are beautiful...I especially love the hood that he designed for me. Most of the pictures are of my kitchen, but I also included pictures of a bath vanity, and an entertainment piece for the TV.
And to top it all off, his prices were less than the out of state cabinets like Brookhaven or Woodmode and about the same as the other finer local cabinet shops but his quality is so much better. In addition, I guarantee you that you'll have a easier time working with Tim than anyone else; he know how to build the cabinets so you don't waste a lot of time waiting for the designer to figure out how to configure some of the more unique cabinets. I must say that a lot these "designers" at the cabinet shops are really order takers and don't really know the details. If you are detailed oriented like me and are very particular about the end product, then you need someone like Tim. A lot of Tim's business are from interior designers and custom home builders so he has a good sense of what customers are looking for.
By the way, this is the second time around for me ordering cabinets. I remodeled my mother's condo in 2006 and wasn't crazy about the custom cabinets from Lafayette Woodworks (the designer was inexperienced; one side of her two sided cabinet doesn't look as finished as it should be) or the Brookhaven kitchen cabinets from Premier Kitchens...the nature of the out of state modular cabinets just doesn't fit together as nicely as the local custom built cabinets.
Remember I said that I already ordered two bath vanities before meeting Tim, well they were a nightmare. Even though I visited a number of other cabinet stores, I ended up ordering again from Brookhaven. One vanity broke in transit and it took them another 8 weeks to send the replacement. For the other vanity, some of the parts were bad and they kept sending more bad replacement parts until we finally gave up and used them anyway. So if you are thinking about out of state cabinets, keep in mind that they are more expensive (because we bought into their propaganda that the finishes last longer?) and that it can take forever if things go wrong. Local cabinet shops can fix problems so much faster.
I almost forgot to mention that the shop manager Roberto is also a great guy. He was very careful, friendly, and knowledgable. I wanted narrow taper legs on a couple of cabinets like the bath vanity and entertainment pictured. But as I have baseboards and didn't want to cut into them, so he build the back legs about 3/4" from the wall so that the back of the cabinets can sit flushed with the walls.
I ordered the following from them: white kitchen cabinets with a bench in the breakfast nook, a set of white cabinets for the dinning room, vanity for a bathroom (as I already ordered cabinets for my other bathrooms before finding Tim), cabinets for the den which included file drawers and bookcases and an entertainment cabinet for the TV in quarter-sawn oak, laundry cabinets in natural maple, two window seats with drawers in white, and a white linen cabinet recessed in the walls. Love them all. They provide so much more storage. He uses the best Blum hardware with soft close doors and drawers. The drawers all have under mounted tracks and glide so smoothly.
I wish you the best of luck with your selection. If I ever have to do another remodel, I would definitely use Kizanis again. read more