2022 ‣ Kitchen Design and Cabinetry Installations for Northern Arizona

Trenton’s Whole House Remodel with 🤍 White Shaker Cabinets

by Steve Shearer | Dec 23, 2022 | Cabinets

This house built in 1995, in Dewey, AZ is on a 20-acre parcel. It has a tremendous 🌅 360-degree view. With 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and supports 1,985 sqft, on the 14,000 block of E State Route 169, Dewey, AZ 86327 Trenton had purchased cabinets from Nelson Cabinetry and had also assembled all the 🗄 cabinet boxes but not the cabinet doors and drawers. Also, he needed all his (7) interior 🚪 SLAB doors installed. The scope of work included: 22 white Shaker cabinets in kitchen, laundry room and bar, 5″ cove crown molding in kitchen only, cabinet pulls, backing/framing to support countertop installation, 7 standard interior hollow SLAB doors with bore, 7 doorknobs.

Trenton’s white shaker cabinets with cove crown molding oven wall

Trenton’s House in Dewey

Trenton’s kitchen remodel mid-project pic

Trenton’s white shaker cabinets with cove crown molding, missing a cabinet

Trenton’s white shaker cabinets with cove crown molding sink wall

Full kitchen pic, Trenton’s white shaker cabinets with cove crown molding

Trenton’s Shaker kitchen, featuring five-inch cove crown molding

Trenton's cove crown molding on white shaker cabinets

Featured: Trenton’s five-inch cove crown molding on white shaker cabinets

Trenton’s white shaker cabinets for a, dry-bar

Trenton’s white shaker laundry cabinets

White shaker with farm sink cabinet, laundry

14875 East State Route 169 Dewey, AZ Google Map

Eucalyptus Cabinets at Sedona Wrigley Ranch

by Steve Shearer | Nov 24, 2022 | Cabinets, Custom Cabinets

It’s Thanksgiving day, 2022 and yes, I’m NOT working!!

Yes, I do have hobbies, tho she wouldn’t consider it as a hobby. It’s architectural design. And I fricken love looking through website images of this stuff.

Today while browsing through some files, I came across this job I did in Sedona, AZ: This equestrian estate, built by an heir of William Wrigley, known as El Rojo Grande Ranch—includes equestrian facilities, a guest casita, a caretaker’s cottage and a park with a bandstand.

El Rojo Grande Ranch, featured in the Wall Street Journal, is one of the most exquisite and private properties in Sedona. Originally owned by one of America’s most iconic families, this pristine property is just 1.5 miles of west of Sedona. The original Wrigley family owner intendedit as a state-of-the-art equestrian center.

This home is especially iconic to me, as I did most of the work installing cabinetry, shelving, and the kitchen walls all out of Eucalyptus hardwood durring the summer of 1995. Eucalyptus has a distinct looking grain that catches the eye and fits well with most any decor. This job holds sentimental value as well. And I’d love to experience what I had when working there: an orange 1952 Chevy pickup. Every monday for 3 months, I would use that truck to drive from Glendale AZ to Sedona.

El Rojo Grande Ranch, Sedona AZ Zillow.com

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Red Rock News El Rojo Grande Ranch May-6-1992

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El Rojo Grande Ranch house entrance

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Schmidt Shaker Kitchen Remodel in Prescott Valley AZ

by Steve Shearer | Nov 10, 2022 | Cabinets, Nelson Shaker Cabinets

James originally purchased Hampton Bay Elgin White cabinets from Home Depot and wasn’t satisfied!

I met James through one of my ever-so-popular Facebook Marketplace ad. His house is in Prescott Valley, Arizona, about 5 minutes from mine. What he had originally ordered are thermo-foil MDF doors. Our cabinet doors are 5-piece hard rock maple.

The first contact I had with James was on ‎August 9, ‎2022
Nelson Kitchen & Bath white shaker cabinets ordered: ‎September 8, ‎2022
Begin installation: ‎October 28, ‎2022
Project totally finished November 5, ‎2022

Schmidt kitchen remodel Prescott AZ

Schmidt kitchen remodel extended penninsulia

Schmidt kitchen cabinets spice rack

Schmidt kitchen cabinets lazy Susan detail

Schmidt kitchen cabinets corner upper cabinet view

Schmidt kitchen cabinet drawers details

Schmidt kitchen Shaker cabinets from Nelson Cabinets

50 of the Strangest Kitchens You Will Ever See!

by Steve Shearer | Sep 12, 2022 | Cabinets

Rustic Style Kitchen Cabinets

1950s Style Retro Kitchens

Extraordinary & Traditional Kitchen Cabinets

Futuristic Kitchen Concepts

Rustic

Rustic kitchens are all about mixing and matching natural styling with modern design to create a personalized farmhouse look. No matter where you come from or where you live, rustic style feels like home.
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1950s

Vintage cupboards, distinguished by bright hues, create the ultimate vintage and old-school look. Design schemes can be fun, adding architectural salvage, flea market, and thrift store finds for accent.
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Extraordinary

Contemporary cabinets are both classic & timeless and incorporate lots of warm, natural materials, such as real wood cabinetry and granite countertops. The overall feeling of the space is warm, homey, and welcoming.
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Palace of Versailles kitchen cabinets

Futuristic

Sleek modern cabinetry removes itself from anything typical with incorporations of innovative gadgetry. Get inspired to bring modern design to your kitchen with these photos from top designers.
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$3,500 for a Complete Set of Kitchen Cabinets

by Steve Shearer | Aug 31, 2022 | Cabinets

For the best convenience, we purchased Hampton Bay Hampton Satin White Raised Panel Cabinets from Home Depot – again!

At the initial request, I had assumed the we would keep the same original configuration which consisted of only one eight foot wall. But after doing take-off measurements, I realized that we could add double the size, as the wall behind the appliances wasn’t being used. And this being a flip home, she wanted the absolute lowest cost cabinets, so I ordered Hampton Bay Shaker Satin White Stock Assembled Kitchen Cabinets from Home Depot. And the 10th one was free!

I met Leanne via James Michener, who I did a kitchen at Chino Valley back in January. Her and I had never met until I was half way through installing these cases. Although, we did have plenty of conversing through phone & email messages.

This house is in Dewey-Humboldt and I’ve included a pitcure of a historic building at 13100 Prescott St, Dewey, AZ

The first contact I had with Leann was on ‎May ‎12, ‎2022
Hampton Bay white shaker cabinets ordered: ‎May ‎17, ‎2022
Begin installation: ‎June ‎3, ‎2022
Project totally finished June ‎15, ‎2022

Bakke’s $3500 kitchen Dewey AZ

Jones St kitchen original cabinets

Cabinet layout for Bakke using Photoshop

Cabinet extended using open shelves

Refacing Kitchen Cabinets in Prescott AZ

by Steve Shearer | May 21, 2022 | Cabinets, Challanges

I’ll have to admit, Michele’s kitchen was a challange 🥺. She has custom made cabinets that have different sized face frame styles and she wanted quarter inch spacing between all doors & drawer fronts. We ended up buying four different back-set hinge styles 🤦!! I figured there was over one thousand calculations to get this job done, and I made a ton of mistakes. Michele took it all gracefully as I had to reorder 18% of the fronts 💰.

She frequently referred to this house as one of those “money pits 🤑,” where you just have to replace this BC you repaired that. They knew when buying this that there would be a lot of changes, and it was her husband’s full-time job doing most of the remodeling 🚧 hisself. One of the more notable changes was to remove most the wall-to-wall 96 inch tall storage cabinets that were piece-built in two garages. I would estimate that this amounted to a whole bunk of 3/4″ particle board scraps.

Her cabinets turned out smashing 👏 and she loved it!!

Cabinet Paint used: Benjamin Moore Advance Semi-Gloss Paint Interior, Super White
Shaker Cabinet Doors made and painted by: Horizon Cabinet Door Co.
Soft Close Euro Hinges furnished by: Woodworker Express

Now that the kitchen was finished, Michele had another project for me, a set of bypass doors.

White maple Shaker style bypass doors

MONDAY, May 2nd, 2022, happened today – like ALL DAY, 💩 nonstop!!

by Steve Shearer | May 5, 2022 | Cabinets, Challanges

To sum up my day, it all started when I arrived at my cabinet install job in Dewey. I mistakenly backed up my 2007 Ford van

onto loose gravel in Doug’s driveway and got stuck. It took me 90 minutes to get it back on the pavement & now I have some landscaping clean-up to do

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The job at hand today, was to remove a DB18 & replace it with the original cabinet I had for it, a DB15 (don’t ask me why

). I also had to relocate the plumbing holes in the SB36 floor (plumbing comes from the floor for mobile homes) and make patches for the slotted holes (I’ll take a picture of it tomorrow). Starting at about 10:30 am, I got it done finally at 2:30 pm.

Next, I realized that the DW was hard-wired with an 18″ cord, which isn’t a problem, unless you want to replace it. I guess it was installed 2 years ago by Home Depot. Don’t know HTF they did that without removing the countertop

???

Then I discovered that the countertop had some 1/4″ hardboard glued to the bottom (we are re-using the Formica post-formed tops). This became an issue with his wife.

They were going back & forth about these issues, so I thold them that they can discuss it all & I’ll go get materials for it. That was at 3 pm. But I still made it home before 5:30, so it was a GOOD DAY!!!

I forgot to mention that the DW was a short (24″) live-wired connection that got shorted out when I tried pulling it away from the wall & had to fix that so it wouldn’t happen again.