Homecrest cabinets. Made (likely) by Amish workers in a plant in Goshen, IN.
Faceframed, and real woods from the faceframe out, but the carcases have 3/8 melamine-coated particleboard sides. No soft-close on doors or drawers. Kitchen has solid wood dovetailed drawers, but drawerboxes in baths and laundry are stapled melamine.
Going in a highpriced ($1.15M) spec nearby.
Anybody used this brand?
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yeh, had good luck w them any brand boxes, homecrest included, have vinyl wrapped particle board sides u need to buy the upgrades, cheap, couple hundred bucks per kitchen, which gives veneer wood sides to match the face frame wood and dovetail joint drawers seen guys not buy upgrade, kitchen looks cheesy cost saver way for bare bones houses is to just upgrade the individual boxes that show on the ends and get dovetail joint drawers if budget allows prefer to upgrade all the boxes for strength, steam in the kitchen getz to the particle board sides over the years just worked in a pricey house, saw the vinyl sides there like the home u were in no attention to detail
We use them in most of the houses we build. We always use the plywood sides and upgraded deluxe 3/4" dovetail drawers. It's a nice cabinet.
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As everyone else said - upgrade to the plywood sides.
I have put in 3 kitchens of HomeCrest - not particularly impressed by them, but have worked with worse.
Just curious, for a such a high priced spec, why the cheaper cabinets?
I have been most impressed with Holiday or Dura Supreme - good box construction and excellent hardware.
Terry