Custom Cabinetry

Carcass16 mm board, moisture-resistant under sinks

Cabinetry made to the dimensions of your room rather than to a module width — for kitchens across Bentleigh, Bentleigh East, McKinnon, Ormond and nearby suburbs.

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Scope of this line

CabinetsBase, tall and overhead cabinetsHardwareDrawer boxes, runners, hinges, handlesPanels & trimsPanels, fillers, kickboards, scribesQuoted separatelyBenchtops, splashback, appliances

Door leaf · reference photographTimber veneer front with a vertical rail pull — grain runs the length of the run, not the leaf

Cabinetry is the largest single line in a kitchen quote and the one you stop seeing the day it goes in. Two runs can look identical at handover and diverge four years later: one has a carcass sealed on every face and runners rated for the weight above them, the other does not. What follows is the specification in the order it is decided.

Specified line by line

Each line below is fixed before manufacture and written into the quote. Where a choice is a genuine trade-off rather than a preference, we say which way it falls and why.

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Carcass and construction

Board16 mm board, moisture-resistant under sinksEdgingSealed on hidden faces as well as visible onesBack panelFull back, housed into the carcass to hold it square

Fronts and finish

DoorTimber veneer, laminate, two-pack or thermolaminatedFinishMatte holds fingerprints less than gloss; deep colours show mostHandlePull, rail, routed finger-groove or a J-pull channel

Drawer & runner · reference photographAn oak drawer opened to the back — plates, bowls, cups and fitted dividers are the load the runner is rated for

Drawers, runners and what goes inside

Below the benchtop, drawers beat doors for almost everything except bins and appliance cupboards: you see the back of a drawer without kneeling. The decision that matters is the runner. A pot drawer carries far more than a cutlery drawer, and load rating is specified per drawer rather than per kitchen.

RunnersFull-extension, soft-close, load-rated drawer by drawerInteriorsDividers cut to the plates and pans you already own

Deeper storage — walk-in and butler’s pantries, appliance cupboards, corner solutions — is set out under Pantry & Kitchen Storage Solutions, and cabinetry inside a bench run is covered on Kitchen Islands.

How a cabinetry run reaches your kitchen

02 Measure — walls checked for square, floor for level, services located03 Design — cabinet widths, drawer stacks and appliance openings set04 Quote — carcass, fronts, hardware and panels itemised05 Material selection — door, finish, edge and handle confirmed in writing07 Cabinetry — cut, edged and assembled to the confirmed sheet10 Installation — levelled, fixed and scribed to the walls as built11 Finishing — doors and drawers adjusted so gaps read even

These are the cabinetry stages within the twelve-step renovation process; the site coordination around them sits under Kitchen Installation & Trade Coordination.

Questions worth asking early

Four that change the drawings rather than the styling.

Can cabinetry be made for walls that aren't square?

That is the usual condition in older Bentleigh homes. Cabinets are built square and the difference is absorbed by scribes, fillers and end panels cut on site, which is why the measure stage matters more than the showroom visit.

Is timber veneer the same as solid timber?

Veneer is a real timber face on a stable substrate, so a tall door stays flat where solid timber would move with the seasons. Grain can be sequence-matched across a run; that has to be specified before manufacture, not chosen at delivery.

What does going handleless actually change?

A routed finger-groove or J-pull channel alters door thickness, opening clearance and the edge you touch a hundred times a week. It reads cleanest on long uninterrupted runs — see Modern Handleless Kitchens.

Can we keep the existing layout and carcasses?

If the boxes are sound and square, new fronts, hardware and a new benchtop change the kitchen without a strip-out. That scope is set out under Kitchen Makeovers; if the layout itself is the problem, start at Complete Kitchen Renovations.

Tell us the run you're replacing

Wall length, ceiling height, the appliances staying and the one cupboard that never works — that is enough to talk sensibly about carcass, fronts and hardware before anyone measures.

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Lines that sit either side of this one

BeforeCustom Kitchen Design & DocumentationAfterKitchen Benchtops: Stone, Porcelain, TimberSame scope, full specification pageCustom Kitchen Cabinetry, Made to MeasureNot a second service — the same cabinetry scope at length: carcass substrates, door types and hardware in detail.All scopesKitchen Renovation Services in Bentleigh