Premium Cabinets

Sorry for the late review. This project turned out great. Luke found us a cabinet that matched our pool table really nicely. The cost was a little more than the cheapest place we found, but his cabinets are better quality and his price was still less than Home Depot. He also referred us to a great granite fabricator who did a really nice job with the granite. The pictures speak for themselves.

Luke is well organized, a perfectionist. Extremely helpful, full of suggestions and ideas. He waited a year for me to check with other places and prices. Nothing I saw provided the quality and price.

We were very impressed by how responsive Luke was. He always got back to us right away and never got annoyed with all of the changes we wanted to make.

Luke was wonderful. He was honest and open with us from the get go.
He has a great approach and is definitely low pressure. He worked on two separate renderings so that we had options that I hadn't imagined before. We always received responses to emails and phone calls promptly.
He even met with us the day he left for vacation to ensure that our order was placed so that we didn't have to wait for him to return and be without a kitchen. The cabinets are beautiful.
We were able to do our kitchen exactly how I've wanted it for years.

Awesome cabinets! Combined with a great price it makes Luke Erwin and Premium Cabinets the go to shop for your kitchen remodel.

Visiting Luke calmed us down after several hi pressure sales environments and home shows. He gave us the info we requested, added some great ideas and fixes that the others simply overlooked, and saved us several thousand dollars. In fact our best quote was $13000 from Home Depot, which we trusted, till we found Luke and his warehouse. Our total for all of our cabinets and accessories came to $2525, and his referred installer was only $1050. That included demo too! It just kept getting better. I'm so happy we looked on yelp and AL for local small businesses because we found a gem!

Update-photos added!

It went unbelievably!
We've been shopping for new new kitchen cabinets for months. We started at the top with home shows & custom builders, thinking "our kitchen is small, it can't be that much, and at Del Mar Home Show we'll get discounts!" Boy were we surprised, and not in a good financial way! A basic custom job for out "U" shaped kitchen added up to over $20,000! That was deflating. We didn't think our kitchen would ever get done if that was the price for quality, and installation.

Ok, we'll install ourselves, or get help.

Our next step was the box stores. Lowes & Home Depot had the basic cheap stuff on the shelves, you know, good for the garage or maybe a laundry or storage room, but a kitchen? No way were we putting particle board in an area where there's constant water spraying, dripping, and splashing about. Kids spilling all the time, or a drip in a pipe would swell those things up so quick it'd be replaced in 2 years. I'm not doing my kitchen again in 2 years! We sat with an agent at both places and used out drawings and measurements to do a layout of what we wanted. Upgrades for the sides and backs, so there's no fake wood, added the favorite feature of the soft close drawers, soft close doors, pantry pullout, and my favorite roll out spice rack for beside the stove. We figured do it once, and do it right! We knew it was adding up, but wasn't going to be the custom builder price. We did our best to get all the features on our wish list because we could always save a bit living without a few little things. Our total estimate came to a bit over $14,500. About $4500 over our budget. It was time to do some guerrilla research.

As much as we have had issues with Craigslist, we knew there were legitimate companies that put ads up there. We had to sort out who we felt were honest, and responsive to our needs. Lowes uses vendors to get their products, so maybe we can cut out the box store and still get the service we need out of a person whose livelihood depends on us, the public, to keep their small business going. We believe in that, which is why we looked at custom in the first place. We'd be dealing with an individual that cared about the outcome. We found several competitors online. Several were in Orange County, so it was an option, but we'd rather stay as local as possible. After calling 3-4 of them and not getting a response we made one last call before heading to The OC. Premium Cabinets answered the phone! A live person to speak to, finally!

Luke answers the phone and told us how he works. His small showroom/warehouse had plenty to see, as we'd shopped already and knew what we wanted. He set an appointment with us (he's open Saturday 11-4 if you can't go during the week). And we met with him. He asked before meeting if we had our dimensions already, and of course we had all of our wish list items.
Premium cabinets had everything we'd been searching for, for months! Yes, they were imported, like those from the box stores, but we knew custom was too much. He had the same upgraded quality as the higher ends of HD and Lowes, and it can standard with the solid sides, soft close drawers, and has all the accessories you could ask for. He called it "semi custom" because he could make just about anything for our kitchen with his standard size cabinets. Average order time was 3 weeks, and ours came in 10 days (minus a piece out of stock that he hand delivered about a week later). Total cost after all
Of our choices......$6450!!!!!!!!!!! Our savings afforded us the countertops, fixtures and most of our appliances we thought we'd have to wait for!
Remember they only sell the assembled cabinets, so you're on your own with install, but he does have good referrals if you need them. We wanted to save as much as possible, and were willing to do a lot of the labor work ourselves

Custom cabinets - over $20k+ - @ 10-14 weeks wait time
Big Box stores - $14k+ - 25% less than custom - @ 6-8 weeks wait time

Premium Cabinets - $6500 - almost 75% off our starting quote, over 50% off our Box Store quote, and half the wait time!

Use this company! Its a diamond in the rough!