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Cheaper to Build or Buy Kitchen Cabinets?!

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The presenter begins by addressing the question of whether it's cheaper to build custom cabinets or buy them from a hardware store. He notes that the previous video covered plumbing installation. The current focus is on building base cabinets. He references pricing for store-bought cabinets (e.g., 30-inch wide oak cabinets for $130-$184 for base units, smaller ones around $130). He then walks through the kitchen space, taking measurements for various cabinet widths needed: 23-inch for a range opening, 15-inch for pull-out drawers, 24x24-inch for a corner 'lazy Susan' cabinet, 25-inch for another cabinet, and 30-inch for a sink base. The placement of a dishwasher next to the sink and a peninsula/bar area are also mentioned, along with the plumbing challenges due to concrete footings preventing in-wall installation, necessitating a hidden gap.

Goal: The video introduces the project of building custom cabinet bases for a kitchen remodel, highlighting the cost-effectiveness and quality benefits compared to store-bought cabinets. Initial measurements and layout considerations for the kitchen are discussed.

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today we're going to solve the A- old question is it cheaper to build your own cabinets or buy them at your local hardware store we'll find [Music] out welcome back guys to another episode on the remodel here electrical is all done Plumbing is all done now we need to start working on building the base cabinets here cuz they're going to take a whole lot of time for me and your boy's taking a well-deserved vacation so we need to make up our time so to do this experiment properly I went down to Home Depot and I checked out their cabinets that they have there they're nothing crazy they're your traditional oak cabinets that still need to be stained or painted whatever you want to do an average cabinet these are a few that I took pictures of they are 30 in wide so they're nice and big uh the top ones that hang on the ceiling are 130 bucks and the base ones are $184 I believe and then the smaller ones that are like 12 in wide they drop down to like 130 or something like that we're going to calculate up at the end of this video how many cabinets I built and how many cabinets uh it would cost to actually get those cabinets and then we'll kind of compare them side by side and uh we'll find out so the cabinets that we're buying are 35 in tall and uh the range is 34 and 1/4 wide opening they're I think they're like 30 3 and 3/4 on average but you need that little Gap but that's a rough opening that they recommend I'm going to have my trim right here so we got a 4-in trim first cabin is going to but up to the range is 23 in wide range opening next cabin is going to be 15 inch wide that's and you have like a bunch of pullout drawers spatulas All That Jazz we have a 24x 24 in call it a lazy Susan uh then we're going to have a 25in cabinet here and then we're going to have a 30-in cabinet for our sink now I'm going to create a little Gap from the sink to the dishwasher by the way the dishwasher will go here mostly because I want to hide this and if you've seen the last video this can't go in the wall because I have concrete footings right there so we have to make do of what we got here and then we're going to have a big wraparound peninsula big open bar area here let's start building our base cabinets starting from here getting

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