Bay Area Cabinetry — Local services in San Francisco

My wife and I very highly recommend Bay Area Cabinetry and Felix, Boris and their team. I am a very fussy client - an engineer, handy person who has a very detailed eye. These guys surpassed all my expectations. Indeed Boris is even fussier than me when it comes to details.

Bay area cabinetry did our Kitchen. They were highly recommended by a friend. We had looked at various cabinetmakers and we zeroed in on these guys because they had a fantastic selection of materials/colors especially if you want a modern Italian/European style kitchen. They also do a traditional style. We found their price to be competitive.

During the design phase Felix was very patient with us - it took me long time settle on the colors. When Felix started to draw the final design plan it became evident that he was looking after the details on how the drawers and doors lined up across entire kitchen for good esthetics. There are two details I remember: (1) How to best squeeze in an additional pull out for oils and spices while still keeping room for our under the sink space for garbage. Felix came up with a good solution. (2) My wife wanted an appliance garage at the corner, which wasn’t the best way of utilizing that space, but Felix ended up offering my wife what she wanted. Later during installation we realized that some of Felix’s reservations for doing the appliance garage were right on – Luckily Boris dealt with the details make it work.

Boris and this team were superb for the installation. Boris has an incredible eye for details. I remember three things. (1) for one part there were two options and Boris asked me if I had a preference. I said lets go for the easier to install option (I am a handy man). Boris said, “if you don’t care either way then I will go with the other option that was harder because the outcome will have better esthetics. (2) The Miele installer had installed the refrigerator with poor alignment, When I told pointed this to the Miele team that the gap was wider on top vs bottom he gave me the BS that the Cabinets are off my 1/64th . Luckily Boris happen to come by at that time and call them on their BS saying that they were off by much more and that his company has done refrigerator installs and he knew was he was talking about. The Miele guys backed off and finally did the right thing. Boris helped us on two other area related to Miele issues. In one area he went out his way to add a special metal plate to deal with a narrow countertop ledge due to the size of the Miele cooktop. At every stage Boris wantedt o make sure everything was just right. He did not take shortcuts.

The end result was fantastic. Our friends are wowed by our kitchen. Indeed the City inspector who came for the final inspection said "wow" as he entered our kitchen

Summary: Amazing workmanship and service. High quality cabinets with good choice in material and colors. Competitive price. It was great working with Felix on the design and choosing the actual finishes. Now they have a professional design person who helps on color and design. Fantastic installation – Bros will look after all the details – he is fanatic about doing things right. Of all the projects I have done in my house over the last 30 years, Boris is the only guy who has exceeded my very high expectations. No brainer to use Bay Area Cabinetry for the cabinets and installation. Also I would use them to do the counter top...

I was looking for a contemporary European style for my kitchen remodel. My first choice was Porcelanosa (Spain) - I've bought from them before. Porcelanosa had very limited options and very high prices. So I had to look for alternatives.

Someone recommended Bay Area Cabinetry. And I was skeptical at first because I always thought a small private shop will be more expensive than a large scale store. I was wrong.

Bay Area Cabinetry store has great options and very reasonable pricing. Quality of the cabinets were much higher and they were built with modern technology (metal cabinets) than what I saw at Porcelanosa (pressed wood).

At Bay Area Cabinetry - they can fit anything into cabinets to customize them, had variety of materials and lots of colors to choose from. Pretty much I found what I was looking for right away.

I want to give a shout out to Felix. His knowledge about the product, taste for design, practical suggestions, and honest advice - what gave me confidence to buy from them.

A special shout out to Boris - who supervised installation. When I purchased cabinets - Felix advised to hire their team to do the installation. I was reluctant because I already had an agreement with my contractor to do the installation. But Felix gave me excellent suggestions for my kitchen design before and I decided to trust his judgement again. And he was right. Boris amazed me with his attention to detail and how well he and his team tuned up the cabinets. I don't think any contractor would know the product so well to match the level of work Boris' team did with the cabinets. The installation itself took a couple of days, but Boris came back several times to change or add different elements that would match the cabinets better. Checked the work that contractor did and changed/re-did several things that just weren't done up to his standard. It was a pleasure to watch him work.

Thank you so much guys! I will be sending...

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with the Bay Area Cabinetry team and we are very grateful for the professionalism, dedication, attention to details and general support throughout the 2 year construction of our new house in Tahoe. During the architectural phase, we interviewed five different kitchen vendors and the price/quality ratios were all over the place. BAC was reasonably priced for the quality displayed and we really appreciated Felix's speed, transparency, openness and frankness during the selection process. We also liked the style and look & feel of the cabinets, which are minimal & timeless European style cabinets, so we decided to go with them. From the first design meeting, we were very impressed with Dasha and Felix. They were very keen in understanding our needs, listened carefully about on our views on aesthetics & practicality, but were also great at challenging us and providing great advices and expertise. Dasha was sooooo patient with our endless changes and rework. Ordering procedure was seemless and delivery was timely. We also hired BAC (Boris and his crew) for the installation of the kitchen and the 3 bathrooms. This team is extremely professional, dealing patiently with the many challenges and delays of our construction project, and went above and beyond. Boris’ attention to detail is remarkable, and his team's push for perfection is to be praised. Our house is almost completed, and we could not be happier. This team has surely added enormous value to it. Thank you very much for working with us on such a long journey. (photos to come, when we remove the cabinet...