Two ways to get your cabinets: RTA kits or fully assembled
Every cabinet we sell can leave the showroom one of two ways, and the right one depends on how hands-on you want to be. Ready-to-assemble (RTA) kits arrive flat-packed, with the doors, sides, shelves, and hardware all boxed together and labeled. You build them yourself with our instructions and a phone call away whenever you get stuck. Assembled cabinets arrive done: boxes glued and clamped square, doors hung, soft-close hinges adjusted, ready to set in place.
The trade-off is straightforward. RTA costs less and packs smaller, which makes it the budget-friendly route and the easier load to move through a doorway or up a staircase. Assembled costs a bit more but saves you the build time and the guesswork, and it lands ready for an installer the same day. Same cabinets, same five collections and 30-plus finishes, same solid-wood doors and soft-close on our core lines either way. The only difference is who turns the screwdriver.
Who RTA is for, and who should go assembled
RTA suits the DIYer. If you are comfortable with a drill, a square, and an afternoon, RTA kits go together with cam locks and a handful of screws, no specialty tools. Each box is a single cabinet, so you build at your own pace, and a flat-packed kitchen fits in far less truck space than a stack of finished boxes. It is the natural pick if you are remodeling on a budget, doing the work yourself, or just like building things.
Assembled is for the hands-off owner. If you would rather not spend a weekend on the garage floor, or you have a contractor on the clock who wants to install and move on, finished cabinets are the call. They are also the smarter choice for tricky pieces like tall pantry units, lazy-Susan corner cabinets, and wide sink-base cabinets, where getting everything dead square matters and our shop has the clamps and the jigs to do it right the first time. Not sure which way to lean? Bring your measurements by the showroom and we will talk through both honestly, including what each adds to a free itemized estimate.
- Choose RTA if: you are comfortable with basic tools, watching the budget, doing your own install, or moving cabinets through tight spaces.
- Choose assembled if: you want it hands-off, you have an installer scheduled, or your layout leans on big or complex cabinets you would rather not build.
Delivery across Texas, with nothing missing or broken
We deliver statewide from our showroom at 5601 Bandera Rd, near Leon Valley on the northwest side of San Antonio. Local runs around town are quick; the rest of Texas is on a route from here, whether you are in the Hill Country, down toward the coast, or up in the metroplex. Either build option ships, so RTA kits and assembled cabinets both go on the truck.
Before anything leaves the dock, your order gets checked against your itemized list piece by piece, so the right doors, the right finishes, and every knob and pull are accounted for. We want it to arrive on time, complete, and undamaged, because a missing filler strip or a dinged door panel on delivery day stalls the whole job. Assembled cabinets are blanket-wrapped and secured so the finish and the square edges survive the ride; RTA kits travel flat and boxed, which is part of why they handle the trip so well.
How it fits with design, assembly, and install
Delivery is one piece of the larger job, and it slots in wherever you need it. Start with a layout however you like: sketch it with our free online 3D kitchen designer, or walk into the showroom with rough measurements and we will lay it out and build you a free itemized estimate so the cabinet, hardware, and delivery line items are all spelled out before you commit. A standard 10x10 kitchen of cabinets starts at $1,750, and most orders are ready in about one to three weeks.
From there you decide how far we carry it. We can drop off RTA kits for you to build, deliver fully assembled cabinets for you or your installer to set, or handle the assembly and the installation ourselves, with our installation work backed by a 3-year workmanship warranty. If you want countertops to go with the cabinets, we carry granite and quartz, and we will coordinate that into the same plan so the whole project moves together instead of in pieces.