Custom Cabinets in Longview, TX

Kitchen cabinets, built-ins and shop fittings for Longview — made to fit the opening you actually have, and fitted by the same people who built them.

Old Longview kitchens and factory cabinets do not get along

Factory cabinets are made in fixed widths, in three-inch steps. Kitchens in the central Longview neighborhoods were not. The result is the thing everyone recognises once it is pointed out — a filler strip down the side of the run, a corner nobody can reach into, and several inches of wall doing nothing because the next size up would not fit through the plan.

Building to the opening removes all of it. The run goes wall to wall. The corner gets a carousel or a deep drawer instead of a void. The awkward gap beside the chimney breast becomes a cupboard. It costs more than flat-pack and less than most people assume, and it is the difference between a kitchen that fits and one that was made to fit.

Often the boxes are fine and only the fronts are tired

A lot of the kitchens we are asked to look at in Longview do not need tearing out. In houses of this age the carcasses are frequently solid timber and perfectly sound, and it is the doors, the drawer runners, the handles and the finish that have had their day. New doors and drawer fronts, new hardware, and the whole run refinished gets you a different kitchen for a fraction of a rebuild.

We will tell you which of the two your kitchen actually needs after looking at it in person, and we will say so plainly when the honest answer is the cheaper one.

Built-ins for the rest of the house

Office built-ins with a desk run and cupboards over — increasingly the first job in a house where somebody now works from home. Mudroom benches with hooks and cubbies. Laundry cabinetry. Window seats with storage underneath. Bookcases fitted into an alcove so they read as original to the house. Garage and workshop storage. Bar units and corner cabinets, including wet ones with a sink cut in.

Downtown fit-outs are a different job

Downtown Longview is the original hundred acres of the city and an accredited Main Street America program, evaluated annually by the Texas Historical Commission. Buildings that were hardware stores, banks and warehouses now hold a craft brewery, a coffee shop, restaurants, boutiques and a children's museum, and old office buildings have been turned into apartments.

Fitting out a space like that is not a domestic kitchen with a bigger budget. Counters and back bars take real punishment. Display joinery has to suit a period frontage rather than fight it. Walls in a hundred-year-old building are never square and the work has to be scribed in rather than shimmed. We take that work, and we would rather quote it in person than off a plan.

Questions we get from Longview