Services · Kitchens
Custom kitchen
cabinets, built for
one kitchen.
A kitchen is the most-worked room in the house, and the cabinetry is most of what you touch. We design and build custom kitchen cabinets for San Jose and South Bay homeowners — Shaker to slab, inset to overlay, painted to stained — joined and finished by the same hands in our Gilroy shop.
The Cream & Walnut Kitchen · San Jose
What’s included
Every kitchen, the same way.
Nothing here is an upgrade or an add-on. It is simply how a custom kitchen leaves our shop.
Full-custom sizing
Every box is built to the millimetre for your room — no filler strips standing in for cabinetry that should have been there.
Dovetailed solid-wood drawers
Drawer boxes are solid maple, dovetailed at every corner, on Blum soft-close undermount runners rated for the life of the kitchen.
Inset or overlay doors, your call
True inset doors set flush within the face frame, or a clean 3/8-inch overlay — both built and fitted by the same hands.
Finished in our Gilroy shop
Spray-finished in a dust-controlled booth, never on site, then delivered cured and ready to install.
Scribed and installed by us
We set, level, and scribe every run to your walls and floors. Nothing leaves until the reveals are even and the doors swing true.
Style & material range
A vocabulary of doors, woods, and finishes.
Door styles
- Shaker — the quietly proportioned standard, in inset or overlay
- Flat-panel & slab — clean, modern, often handleless
- Beaded inset — a finer, more traditional bead inside the frame
- Two-tone — a stained island against a painted perimeter
Woods & finishes
- Rift-sawn white oak
- American black walnut
- Hard maple
- Paint-grade poplar & MDF for a flawless painted finish
- Conversion-varnish and hand-rubbed oil finishes
From sketch to install
Consult, design, build, install — most kitchens run eight to fourteen weeks from approved drawings.
See the full process →Selected kitchens
Recent work across the South Bay.
Common questions
Before you begin.
- What's the difference between frameless and face-frame cabinets?
- Face-frame cabinets carry a solid hardwood frame across the front of the box — the traditional American method, and the only way to build true inset doors. Frameless (European) construction skips the frame for slightly more interior width and a cleaner modern look. We build both; for most heirloom kitchens in San Jose and the South Bay we recommend face-frame, but a handleless contemporary kitchen is often better frameless.
- How long does a custom kitchen take?
- Plan on eight to fourteen weeks from approved drawings to final walkthrough. Design and engineering take three to four weeks before that. We build a small number of kitchens at a time on purpose — it's the only way the same makers stay on your job start to finish.
- Can you match cabinetry to an existing room or period home?
- Yes. We regularly match door profiles, bead details, and stain colors to existing millwork so an addition or remodel reads as original. Bring us a photograph or, better, a sample, and we'll build to it.
- Do you work with our architect or designer?
- Often. We're comfortable taking a designer's elevations and turning them into shop-ready drawings, and equally comfortable designing from scratch. If you're a trade professional, our trade page covers how we collaborate.
- What does a custom kitchen cost?
- Custom cabinetry is priced by the cabinet, the wood, the finish, and the joinery — not by the linear foot. A full custom-kitchen-cabinet project in San Jose typically starts in the mid five figures. We give you a fixed written proposal before any wood is cut, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
Begin a kitchen
Tell us how you cook.
We take a small number of kitchens each season. Share your home, your timeline, and what you want the room to do — we’ll reply within two business days.