Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Selma, CA

Custom kitchen cabinets in Selma tend to land in one of two housing types. The Raisin Capital of the World has a craftsman era core near downtown and a broad belt of post-war tract housing built out along the Highway 99 corridor. The craftsman homes have character and awkward kitchens. The tract homes have predictable layouts and cabinetry that has reached the end of its service life.

Two housing types, two different cabinet projects

The bungalows near central Selma were built when a kitchen was a work room rather than a living space. They often retain original trim and casing worth matching, and the kitchens are usually small, with a separate service porch or a back entry eating into the available wall. On these houses we spend real time matching profiles so new cabinetry reads as belonging to the house, and we look hard at whether an adjoining service area can be absorbed to gain a full wall of storage.

The post-war tract housing is the more common project. Those kitchens are typically galley or L shaped with eight foot ceilings, a soffit above the uppers, and a layout that assumed one cook. Removing the soffit is the single highest value change, usually recovering twelve to eighteen inches of vertical storage. We check what is inside it first, because soffits in Selma tract housing of this era regularly conceal a duct run or the kitchen vent, and finding that after demolition rather than before is what turns a clean project into a change order.

How we build for Selma kitchens

On craftsman era homes we match existing trim and casing profiles so the cabinetry does not read as an obvious later addition, and we scribe every vertical because century old walls are not straight. On tract homes the work is more about recovering volume: soffit removal, uppers to the ceiling, and drawer banks in place of door bays. Both get the same construction standard, which is plywood carcasses, dovetailed maple drawer boxes, and soft close hardware throughout.