Custom cabinets, built to a measurable standard.
Soft-close on every door and drawer. Plywood boxes, never particleboard. Inset gaps held to 1/8" — and we mean it.
There’s a reason custom cabinets cost more than a stock-cabinet kitchen from a big-box store: they’re built differently, hung differently, and finished differently. The cheap cabinets warp. The doors fall out of alignment a year in. The drawer slides start to bind.
Our cabinets don’t, because every step in the process is held to a written standard.
What’s included in our base spec
This is what every custom cabinet job from Marvel-Works includes — before you add upgrades.
Upgrade options
Stain-Grade Cabinets
For when you want the wood grain visible. We offer white oak, maple, hickory, red oak, and beech. Faces are sanded to 220-grit, no defects allowed on visible surfaces, grain direction matched across doors on the same run.
Inset Cabinets
The premium upgrade — doors and drawer fronts sit flush within the face frame opening rather than overlapping. We hold a 1/8″ uniform gap on all four sides, no tapering, no variation. Inset is unforgiving; we only do it because we have the precision to do it right.
Dovetail Joinery
Drawer box construction upgraded to dovetail joints — the strongest, most traditional drawer build. Visible quality, lifetime durability.
Specialty Accessories
Pull-out trays, soft-close pull-out trash, lazy Susan corner units, knife blocks, spice racks, drawer dividers — all installed to manufacturer spec and tested before sign-off.
For the technical homeowner
Cabinet construction & installation standards.
Cabinet construction & installation standards
Box construction
- 3/4″ birch plywood, 1/4″ plywood backs
- Wood-glued and 18-gauge nailed assembly
- Face frames built from solid poplar (paint-grade) or species-matched hardwood (stain-grade)
Drawer boxes
- UV plywood standard
- Dovetail joinery available as upgrade
- Undermount soft-close slides on every drawer
- Box must be square — diagonal measurements verified
Hinges & hardware
- 1/2″ overlay soft-close concealed hinges (base spec on all doors)
- Three-way adjustable after installation (up/down, left/right, in/out)
- Inset upgrade uses concealed cup hinges rated for inset tolerance
Installation
- Laser level required on every job — non-negotiable
- Wall cabinets screwed to studs through hanging rail
- Adjacent cabinets screwed together through face frames for continuous alignment
- Base cabinets shimmed level on uneven floors; all shims trimmed flush after install
- Cabinet tops verified level before countertop templating
Inset tolerance
- 1/8″ uniform gap on all four sides
- No tapering, no variation top-to-bottom or side-to-side
- Inconsistency is the most-noticed quality issue on inset work, so we built our process specifically to eliminate it
Scribe & filler standards
- Scribe moldings tight to wall surface, no visible gaps behind
- Filler pieces consistent in width
- All filler pieces flush with adjacent face frames — no steps, no offsets
Crown molding
- Tight at all joints, no visible gaps at miters
- Returns at exposed ends finished cleanly
- Profile specified per project
Completion video on every job
- Wide shot of finished installation
- Open-cabinet shot of interior
- Close-up of face frame joints, crown joints, scribe junctions
- Verbal narration confirming material, hinge type, slide type, upgrades installed, and any site-specific deviations approved by the PM
Schedule an on-site visit.
Bring your Pinterest board, the dimensions of the room, and any cabinet dislikes from your current kitchen — we'll go from there.