The Process of Ordering  Custom Cabinetry

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Building a new home or renovating an existing one can be an exciting opportunity to create your own space. It can be a lot of fun, but it usually involves a lot of steps and choices that some people can find a bit bewildering. To help with the kitchen cabinets part of your project, we'll give you an overview of the process of choosing, ordering, and having a custom kitchen installed by Gillingham Cabinets.

While we do our best to make the process as simple as we can, buying custom cabinetry - what is really customized, built-in furniture for your home, is a process that has some necessary and significant steps. Before we can provide you with an estimate, there are number of choices that have to be made.

The good news is that we do this everyday and are here to guide you through the process.

Briefly, the significant steps in our process are:

1. Design Consultation
2. Proposal
3. Finalize Design and Order the Cabinets
4. Engineering and Manufacturing
5. Delivery and Installation

To explain each of these steps in detail, we have a document in a format that is easier to read and to print out. Please click here to download it in PDF format.