Cabinets across Middle Tennessee

Cabinets across Middle Tennessee

Cabinet makers who measure the room themselves, build or order to the drawing, and install level in houses that are not.

Cabinet makers and installers serving Nashville also cover Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville; the range runs to 65 towns in 12 counties. The houses are not the same in any two of those towns, and neither is the cabinetry work:

• Nashville. Pre-war kitchens have plaster walls, tall ceilings and floors that slope, and cabinets in one are scribed and shimmed by a craftsman; a stock run from a store never fits.
• Brentwood. Eighties and nineties kitchens carry the oak cabinets of the era on solid boxes; painting or refacing them is the honest upgrade, and a maker who says so is not losing a sale, he is keeping a customer.
• Murfreesboro. Newer houses have builder-grade boxes on a decent layout, and refacing or new doors on the existing boxes often gives the kitchen the upgrade at half the price of new.
• Hendersonville. Older houses want cabinets that look like they belong — inset doors, painted finishes, proportions from the period — and semi-custom lines that offer that are the value choice.
• Columbia. Pre-war kitchens have plaster walls, tall ceilings and floors that slope, and cabinets in one are scribed and shimmed by a craftsman; a stock run from a store never fits.
• Lebanon. Rural kitchens are bigger, older and often the center of the house, and a maker who builds to the room rather than the catalog is the one to send.