Ready to assemble (RTA) kitchen and bath cabinets VS Fully assembled custom cabinets

One of the most important rooms in a home is the kitchen. Family and friends seem to always wind up in the kitchen at gatherings. So it makes good sense that you want an attractive and comfortable kitchen and one that has good functionality. When building a new home or remodeling an existing home, one of the most important decisions is what to do in the kitchen. Many decisions are required to get the ideal kitchen to suit your ideas and needs. Here we will talk about the kitchen and bath cabinets. Not the appliances and flooring which are equally important. First, we all have a budget. We want to get the most for our money and we want it to be the quality that we expect or require. The easy question is whether to choose all wood or particle board. Many of the big box stores will give you a fairly good price but most of the time the carcass will be particle board, also referred to as "furniture board". That term throws you a bit but it is also compressed fiber. Not real wood. Please think long before choosing, as when particle board or furniture board gets wet, it has to be replaced. It is almost impossible to repair it. It means, if it is a base cabinet you will have to remove the counter top too. Big problems. All wood cabinets will not be as affected. Usually just cleaning and drying them is ok. Custom cabinets have a few advantages over RTA kitchen cabinets. One is that the buyer, customer or contractor will not have to assemble them, build or unbox and install them. If the design is good, you should have a good finished look. However, they are usually much more expensive. Custom cabinets can also be built from scratch. Very popular but it means the actual cabinet can be built from inferior material and covered with face frames and cabinet doors. Sometimes the doors and finish on the cabinets are finished in a small shop or garage without the proper controls and environment needed for the perfect finish. RTA cabinets these days, depending on your choice and decisions have many advantages. First they can be and look just as good as any Custom cabinet. The finishes are done in a very professional environment with quality paint and other finishing material. Also, with the latest finishing equipment. Second, the RTA cabinets are usually a lot more affordable than custom. Many times the RTA cabinets will be less than half the cost of custom cabinets. The choices of RTA cabinets are practically unlimited. Colors, Styles and Accessories are numerous. Great Buy Cabinets markets only ALL WOOD CABINETS, with the exceptions of some door center panels being MDF (medium density fiber). The purpose of the MDF is to control expansion and contraction, which can be very obvious when this happens. Our white line of cabinets, Skibrite is one of our best selling cabinet lines and it has thermofoil doors made of MDF and ¾" plywood box and shelves. Another big advantage of the RTA cabinets is the FREIGHT and damage control while being shipped. The freight, as you can imagine, is much less because they are flat packed and ready to assemble. All the items needed to assemble the cabinets are usually included except sometimes glue, depending on the cabinet, and some screws. Adjustable hinges and drawer glides are included. With the use of matching base and wall fillers, the RTA cabinets can look and be just as good or better as any custom or assembled cabinet. Finally, RTA (ready to assemble) cabinets have the overall advantage. The Great Buy Cabinets are VALUE AND QUALITY ORIENTED with great customer satisfaction nation wide.