Cabinets Basics

The kitchen is the most used room of the house. Keep that in mind as you're buying cabinets. You want them to be able to stand up to constant daily use and be aesthetically pleasing at the same time. Parr Cabinet Outlet offers a great selection of stock cabinets from our warehouse as well as semi-custom cabinets by special order. We also offer unfinished birch cabinets that are great for a laundry room or garage.

Cabinet components include the face, frame
and doors.

The face is the layer of finished wood or laminate that will show in your kitchen. The doors will be solid wood, veneer or a laminate-clad wood. The frame in all cabinets is either plywood, particleboard, or both. The better grades of particleboard are an excellent building material, but the best cabinets tend to be plywood all around.

Doors are usually solid wood or wood veneer.

They come in four basic styles: raised panel, recessed panel, frame and panes, and flat panel.

Cabinets can be either stock, custom,
or semi-custom.

Stock cabinets are manufactured in standard sizes, which makes them an economical choice. Custom cabinets, as the name implies, are made to order for whatever space you're installing them in. They come in an infinite variety of sizes, styles, materials and finishes. Semi-custom cabinets are made in a greater variety of sizes and styles than stock cabinets, making them an intermediate choice between stock and fully custom cabinets.