Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Kerman, CA

Custom kitchen cabinets in Kerman usually go into single story ranch houses from the middle of the last century. Kerman sits west of Fresno in open farming country, and the established housing there largely dates to that mid century period, with newer tracts filling in around the edges. Those ranch layouts have one feature that works strongly in favour of custom cabinetry: long, uninterrupted kitchen walls.

Long walls, flat land, and a lot of dust

A mid century ranch kitchen typically gives you a straight run with few breaks, which is exactly the condition where stock cabinetry wastes the most. Over a fourteen or sixteen foot wall, a three inch increment system can strand the better part of a cabinet's worth of width in filler strips. Building to the opening recovers it in one move. These homes also tend to have the original kitchen window centered without reference to where cabinets would eventually go, so the layout work is usually about balancing runs either side of a window that is not where you would put it.

Kerman's setting brings a practical consideration that inner city projects do not have. This is flat, open farmland, and wind carries a genuine dust load across it through much of the year, heaviest around cultivation and harvest. Fine agricultural dust gets into everything, and it is a real enemy of a wet finish. It is one of the clearer arguments for finishing doors and drawer fronts in a controlled shop environment rather than spraying anything on site, and for sealing the house properly during the installation phase.

How we build for Kerman kitchens

Long ranch walls get built as continuous runs to the opening, with no filler strips breaking up the line. Doors and drawer fronts are finished in a controlled shop environment rather than on site, which matters more here than almost anywhere else in our service area given the airborne dust load. Boxes are plywood, drawer boxes are dovetailed maple on full extension undermount glides, and every run is field measured after demolition rather than estimated from the original wall.