We have been shopping for cabinets to remodel our kitchen and this has been an ongoing battle. We started with Lowe's and likes the Kraftmaid and Diamond but they were a little pricey and the door and designs in our price range were pretty lame. We checked Home Depot and same thing. Then we started looking around and stumbled across a local supplier that carries the Cardell line of kitchen cabinets.
When we got the quotes from Lowe's it was all detailed out with full descriptions, drawings, terms, conditions, and everything clearly defined. We're a little hessitant on dropping around $8K off a hand written sheet that has a bunch of numbers on it that we don't have anything to reference to, and with a bunch of prices hand written beside them. We're worried if something comes in wrong we'd have little recourse to get it fixed.
Is this a normal method of buying kitchen cabinets? Off hand written sketches?
And has anyone had good/bad experiences with Cardell? It seems like a good product line but the ordering methodology seems a little risky. Do you think it could just be this one dealer? There is another dealer only about 10 miles away (actually closer to our home) but when we attempted to email then from their website we got the email returned as an invalid address which didn't give us a wamr fuzzy feeling about them either.
Any and all help would greatly appreciated!