The type of cabinets your customers choose
affects the cost, overall appearance, and workability of their kitchen.
Cabinets are manufactured and sold in the following different ways in Belfast but this is also true for other parts of the UK.
Stock Units
Stock cabinets are literally in stock
wherever they are sold. They are made in quantity, in advance, to go into
distributor warehouses for quick delivery. They are made in a wide variety of
standard sizes that can be assembled to suit the kitchen space. The quality of
standard cabinets may be fair, good, or excellent, depending on the
manufacturer and price, with a limited number of styles and colours. Most stock
systems do have cabinets that can be ordered for peninsulas or islands, with
doors or drawers on both sides and appropriate toe-spaces, trim, and finishes.
Stock cabinets are sold mainly to distributors and to builders. But if your want the best kitchen Design Belfast can possibly give, then this type of unit should be avoided.
Custom Units
The word custom can be used to describe any
cabinetry or manufacturer that builds product to the measurements of a specific
project. Custom cabinet manufacturers make cabinets kitchen by kitchen after a kitchen
has been designed and sold. Generally, they are made in the same 3-inch (8-cm)
modules as stock cabinets, but special sizes are also made for a perfect fit in
the destination kitchen. Custom producers offer a wide range of wood species,
finishes, and special units.
Because custom cabinets are made to order,
delivery may take from 4 to 16 weeks. Place the order well in advance of the
date you have scheduled to install the cabinets. Custom cabinets almost always
are delivered completely finished, like fine furniture. Prices run from
moderate to very expensive. Though it is generally a more expensive approach,
custom shops can match old cabinets, build to odd configurations, and
accommodate details that can’t be handled by stock cabinets.
Semi-custom\Built-to-order Units
Semi-custom cabinets are produced by both
stock custom manufacturers. These cabinets are usually produced on a stock basis
but with many more standard interior fittings and accessories than regular
cabinets although not as many as are available on custom units. They are available
in a variety of standard sizes, finishes, and styles. Each kitchen is built to
order based on the kitchen design and preference. Custom offers many more
choices, special shapes, special sizes and, usually, better joinery and
finishes.
Speciality cabinets
Speciality cabinet manufacturers are those
that are set up to supply specific housing tracts where hundreds of houses
might have only three or four kitchen floor plans, and they make cabinets only
to fit those floor plans. For example, the speciality manufacturer might take
100 identical single cabinets to fit a wall 96 inches (244 cm) wide that would
be the same in 100 houses. A similar wall with stock or custom cabinets would
have combinations of cabinets in different sizes.
