Looking at cabinets with a builder in the San Antonio area and I was told I should budget between $400-$700 per linear foot of cabinets for budget purposes. I'll admit I was a bit sticker shocked by that.

We are looking at standard height, shaker style doors, soft close hinges drawer slides. We want all wood/plywood with 3/4" boxes and I feel this is maybe slightly above middle of the road level of custom.

What have yall paid roughly per linear foot for cabinets?

ForeverAg said:

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Looking at cabinets with a builder in the San Antonio area and I was told I should budget between $400-$700 per linear foot of cabinets for budget purposes. I'll admit I was a bit sticker shocked by that.

We are looking at standard height, shaker style doors, soft close hinges drawer slides. We want all wood/plywood with 3/4" boxes and I feel this is maybe slightly above middle of the road level of custom.

What have yall paid roughly per linear foot for cabinets?

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I am a GC and do a lot of office buildouts. Lower & uppers in a typical breakroom from my millwork sub are about $500/LF - $600/LF, with plam top.

Denver area.

62strat said:

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ForeverAg said:

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Looking at cabinets with a builder in the San Antonio area and I was told I should budget between $400-$700 per linear foot of cabinets for budget purposes. I'll admit I was a bit sticker shocked by that.

We are looking at standard height, shaker style doors, soft close hinges drawer slides. We want all wood/plywood with 3/4" boxes and I feel this is maybe slightly above middle of the road level of custom.

What have yall paid roughly per linear foot for cabinets?

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I am a GC and do a lot of office buildouts. Lower & uppers in a typical breakroom from my millwork sub are about $500/LF - $600/LF, with plam top.

Denver area.

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When you say lower and uppers are that linear price, are you saying if you have 8 linear feet (technically 16 with upper and lower) your pricing is $4000 or $8000?

ForeverAg said:

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62strat said:

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ForeverAg said:

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Looking at cabinets with a builder in the San Antonio area and I was told I should budget between $400-$700 per linear foot of cabinets for budget purposes. I'll admit I was a bit sticker shocked by that.

We are looking at standard height, shaker style doors, soft close hinges drawer slides. We want all wood/plywood with 3/4" boxes and I feel this is maybe slightly above middle of the road level of custom.

What have yall paid roughly per linear foot for cabinets?

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I am a GC and do a lot of office buildouts. Lower & uppers in a typical breakroom from my millwork sub are about $500/LF - $600/LF, with plam top.

Denver area.

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When you say lower and uppers are that linear price, are you saying if you have 8 linear feet (technically 16 with upper and lower) your pricing is $4000 or $8000?

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lower only is ~$300/lf;
upper only is ~$300/lf
So for lower and upper it's $600/lf (the sum of the two above)

But that $600 does include the plam top, so you'd have to back that out (maybe $40/sf, so $80/lf?)

We had our cabinets installed last week by a well regarded custom cabinet maker here in BCS. Approx. 32lf of cabinets on the kitchen walls plus a 9' island. Came in at $16k. $16k/41lf = $390/lf. This is cabinets only. No countertops, no paint/stain.

We had quotes higher and lower than this one.

MyNameIsJeff said:

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We had our cabinets installed last week by a well regarded custom cabinet maker here in BCS. Approx. 32lf of cabinets on the kitchen walls plus a 9' island. Came in at $16k. $16k/41lf = $390/lf. This is cabinets only. No countertops, no paint/stain.

We had quotes higher and lower than this one.

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regarding his clarification above.. you are convoluting an island (lowers only) with (I think) uppers and lowers in the kitchen.

Islands are typically twice as much linear foot.

And you have full height cabs to consider.


I'd budget 450/if foot for lowers, 400 for uppers and 800 for full heights.

Obviously, more doors and less drawers will save you a little money.

We did two kitchen remodels.

First was with kitchen company that orders and installs. They used mid-continent (I think..). Install was amazing. Quality: ok.

Second home ordered Kraftmaid through box store and had third party install. The KM quality was top notch. Heavier doors. Better glides, etc.

Hard to price out per foot when you don't factor in some of the fancy upgrades.

Most of our cabinets that have shelves all slide out. We have a utensil pull out with two universal knife blocks that I can't recommend enough.

62strat said:

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MyNameIsJeff said:

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We had our cabinets installed last week by a well regarded custom cabinet maker here in BCS. Approx. 32lf of cabinets on the kitchen walls plus a 9' island. Came in at $16k. $16k/41lf = $390/lf. This is cabinets only. No countertops, no paint/stain.

We had quotes higher and lower than this one.

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regarding his clarification above.. you are convoluting an island (lowers only) with (I think) uppers and lowers in the kitchen.

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Just offering what I have... Estimate didn't break out island vs. uppers and lowers.

I have someone for you to call. I just had 2 sections of 4' custom base cabinets done. They had an 15" depth which required the custom part. My total was $200 LF - painted - basic shaker, no drawers, just doors. I installed them myself, he just delivered them. I believe he would have installed them to, but my project wasn't ready for install yet and being base cabinets it was something I could handle. I got his name from a GC who does lot of kitchens.

https://cabinetwizard.biz/

Call Brad at: 210-551-3647

I never actually meet him in person, placed the order via text /phone, my wife was home when he delivered. But he came off like a very small or 1 man type shop and had good old boy vibes. You won't be paying for a salesman's commission or some big office overheard. The only part he doesn't do himself in his shop is the doors. He ordered those. Took about 4 week from when I ordered to when they were delivered which was faster than the 6 weeks he told me.

Very small world. I'm happy with mine as well. I think you did really good @ $6,300 for that amount of work.

As someone who is currently building/painting/installing my own custom cabinets, I can tell you it's just flat out expensive. If you want good quality work, with good quality building materials, good quality hardware, then add in special shelf pullouts, etc, it's just really really expensive.

I'm already over $6k, and I'm only ~75% done. Im estimating that I'll probably be around $8-9k all in for my cabinetry, and that's with me doing all the work. Paying a contractor for the same thing would be at least double that, maybe 2.5x.

per LinFt? OK to assume upper=lower costs w/o countertops
ANY $$/LinFt is something ala what OP requested.
Photos and total price gets nowhere in that quest to build a cost range.

No, lowers are more expensive per foot

Who?mikejones! said:

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No, lowers are more expensive per foot

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That's a bit of a generalization. For the most part, a cabinet is a cabinet. The size and features are what dictate cost, not where it goes on the wall.

Uppers can have glass doors, crown molding and/or light valances, and they can be 24" deep or more and they can be 48" tall. That can easily make it more expense than a lower which are much more standardized, but of course can have pull out drawers and other storage features.

Okay. Yes, in general, lowers are more expensive for typical layouts because of drawers and the associated material and hardware.

Per linear foot is such a rough and inaccurate estimate. As I said before, some of the fancy pull outs can run $500. The shelves that roll out aren't cheap either or tall uppers.

I forgot the exact cost here...maybe $22K

evan_aggie said:

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Per linear foot is such a rough and inaccurate estimate.

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I agree for residential.

I chimed in because I do it commercially in offices, where the range of $/lf is much less varied. I probably could have just not chimed in since the op is obviously not outfitting his office!

We had whole house, kitchen and bar done by Tall Oak Cabinets in SA.
No paint/stain but a great product with reasonable pricing and on time.
I also have the painter and fabricator if a second proposal is needed.

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