THE CABINET MAKER LLC

Excellent. John was very responsive, took great care to match our existing cabinets in both color and design. The job was also completed early. I would highly recommend this company and will use them again when we move on to our next project.

John was consistently professional, punctual and patient while dealing with a couple who struggled with what we actually wanted/needed.  We had a fairly useless tiny under-stair closet in our kitchen that I had gutted and intended to turn into some sort of a pantry.  After lacking inspirations for several years, we found John, who suggested a custom built cabinet piece to simply slide into the door opening rather than trying to fully utilize the entire under-stair area.  We struggled for quite some time because we felt there had to be some cool way of using *all* the space of this former closet, and John was extremely patient as we tossed ideas back and forth for months.  Ultimately, John's gut instinct was the right thing to do, so we let go of trying to use every inch of this extremely awkward space and started to design a custom cabinet together.  John's patience continued to be appreciated as we kept trying to decide what we wanted to store where, which would affect how we wanted the drawers laid out.  We ended up with a beautiful piece of cabinetry that provides ample shelved storage, multiple drawers for pots/pans (and a drawer within a drawer for lid storage) and cookware, a pullout butcher block that can hold up to some serious weight, and custom spice rack shelving on the inside of the upper cabinet doors.
John perfectly matched up the aged stain on all of our existing kitchen cabinets, as well as the door design and drawer fronts so the new piece not only looks fantastic, it fits right in and feels perfectly in place!
Along with building the cabinet for us, John also modified a couple of our existing base cabinets to allow for some vertical cutting board and baking sheet storage, and pull out storage for a heavy Kitchen Aid mixer.
We would highly recommend John to anyone looking for custom cabinetry by a talented craftsman with a great attention to detail.  He also has the patience of a Saint if you feel like you could sometimes be "high maintenance"  :)

John was great to work with - very professional.  He worked with me to make sure the design was exactly as I wanted it.  Install went well and final product met all my expectations.

awesome

First of all John listened to my vision and my requirements; many contractors try to tell you what you should want. He coordinated all of the subcontractors and performed work to a high standard. Best thing I can say is he treated the project as though he was doing work for a friend.

Great job.

On time, within budget and exemplary service.

Experience could not be better. The owner, John Phillips, was always on time and did the work in the approximate amount of time that he said he would. He came with an assistant, who was also very good, and both of them installed the new drawers and slides under John's direction. Clean up after the work was superior. I wiish that all contractors were as good as he was. The quality of the work was excellent. W/hen he came to make an estimate and again, when he came to do the work, there was NONE of the annoyking "window" of arrival like many contractors. ("between 8 and noon, etc.") He said he would be here at 9AM and he arrived at 8:55AM. I would not hire anyone but The Cabinet Maker LLC for any similar work in the future..

His name was John Phillips. He handled everything for the kitchen remodel down to the studs and rebuild. It was better than the box stores. The box stores have specific sizes for the cabinets and if they don't have the size we need, whatever they don't fit they put spacers in so we lose usable area. John designed the cabinets so there was no wasted space. All corners were used. All backs of cabinets were used. All underneath and over top doors which means the drawer areas were used. There was no wasted space. It was quite novel, and this is what some of the stores we talked to said they couldn't do. He was much more expensive because of this. He used renewable wood and he used no VOC stains and glues. He went with the forestry certification as much as his shop could. We found out that they have to segregate it out in many ways like we do a kosher kitchen, where the wood that we use that is American forestry certified cannot even be in a room that is not American certified to qualify for the stamp in the paperwork. He said he could not set up two full shops to do that and that it was the best that he could do. It was from our green point of view wonderful because again no one else could offer us that at that time. Hopefully things would have changed. I would put the caveat on what we need to get and exactly what things are going to cost before because every little thing adds to the price. It's not like while he is there, we add something else. That will be an extra cost. Everything has to be set up front. Many people doing remodels will see the person there as being helpful, and the person there is making money. It's a business transaction and he is not there to be helpful. He is there to make money. If this is stated upfront there are no surprises and there are no ifs. We enlarged the kitchen space. When we took out the wall between the kitchen and the dining room, we made it a huge open concept. We had 3 cooks who were working off a cutting board that was 2 feet square. Now we have 3 cooks who can stay in here and make full meals without touching each other. We lost the dining room in the process. We have a bar area we can eat at and our family tends to eat whenever we eat at the sofa, or in the office, or at the bar itself. In the past year I have begun to miss it because I like sitting around the table with my family. The countertops are silestone and I adore them. They wash off with soap and water. They have high heat tolerance between 500 and 600 degrees and are micro-resistant. The company was expensive up front and I knew that going into the project, but they were good. They were saying that no one expected that the wall we took out was the retaining wall for the entire back of the house. They couldn't figure it out. It was not obvious in any way until the wall began to come down. So we had to work around that at the last minute. The wall between the kitchen and the dining room was what held up the roof of the house at the back of the house. it was a load-bearing wall. There was a 26 foot beam running through the wall that held up the roof and they were expecting to take down the little piece of soffit because it looked like it did nothing except nothing. When they began to remove it they realized they couldn't do that. They had to replace the 26 feet by 3 inches thick by 12 inch high wall holding the roof up. They had engineers, architects, and carpenters in here to try and figure out how to do it otherwise we would have a huge pillar right in the center of our canter to hold up the roof. They finally had to do it but it was an extra $3000.00. I don't have an extra $3000.00 just casually lying around in a big jar. So that was an interesting creative bookkeeping measure we had to deal with there. If I had to remodel my bathroom, I would probably not go with him. I would rather go with someone who was bathroom specific. He is really cabinets and countertops and general contracting. My kitchen is fabulous. People walk in and their mouths fall open. They don't know what to look at. I give them the grand tour when they are just standing in place. It is fun and we have this huge kitchen that's wonderful. I paid for it out of my pocket. We have been saving and it was little pieces of this and bits of that and savings. I hope it improves the value of my house and I hope I don't have to live off macaroni for the rest of my life.

Went very well. John was friendly, prompt, and had lots of great ideas. The work was delayed slightly because of flooding issues at his workshop. John promptly called with updates and kept us well informed of his time-frame as it evolved.

John's sense of professionalism and customer service is incredible. He sent me a mockup of what I said I wanted and when I saw it, I decided that I wanted my first and last name in lowercase letters. Instead of charging for a second mockup, he did it for free and with the utmost courtesy. My name badge was ready well in advance of when he estimated and it is perfect. I attend a lot of networking events and am complimented on it constantly.

John was recommended through friends/clients of mine and I called him to get a quote. After having other contractors over to the house who were in and out in just a few minutes, John took the time to really assess the situation and get a clear picture of what I was after. He asked a lot of questions and allowed me to ask them too. He took measurements and did the work exactly as promised, resulting in a modern kitchen feel. The work was done in the time that was promised and the attention paid to detail was exemplary. John gives options, but will share his opinion as well. After all, that is why we hire professionals.