Built for your space, not adjusted to fit it.
Stock cabinets come in fixed widths and you build your kitchen around them. Custom cabinets start with your room. Every box is made to the dimensions you actually have, in the species you picked, with the door style and finish you chose, in our own shop in Abilene, Kansas.
Made, not assembled
Plenty of companies sell "custom" cabinets that are really semi-custom, meaning you pick from a catalog of pre-built sizes and finishes and hope your room cooperates. If your wall is 34 inches, you get a 33 inch cabinet and a filler strip.
We build after you decide. Nothing goes on the saw until the design is settled, which means the awkward corner, the odd ceiling height, the run that has to stop short for a window, all of it gets designed for instead of worked around.
That also means your options aren't limited to what happens to be in a warehouse. Choose from a wide range of door styles, four overlay types, a full range of wood species, and every stain and paint we offer, in any combination you want.
Drawer construction
Drawer boxes are solid wood with dovetailed joints. That's the joint you see on good furniture, where the two pieces interlock rather than being butted together and stapled. It's more work to cut and it's the reason a drawer still runs true after twenty years of being loaded with pots.
Hardware
Soft close hinges and soft close drawer glides are standard on every cabinet we build. Not an upgrade, not a package, not a line item. Standard.
How it works
Five clear stages, with one team carrying the work from first sketch to final install.
We start with how you use the space, then turn it into drawings and a 3D rendering. We verify measurements before anything is cut.
Door style, overlay, wood species, finish, and hardware. Five decisions, and you can see every option before you make them.
Your cabinets are built in Abilene, Kansas, by the same shop that has been making them since 1974.
Stain, paint, and topcoat all happen in our own finishing department, so every piece comes together as one room.
Our installation crews bring it home. Once the design is settled, most custom projects run ten to twelve weeks.
If financing belongs in the conversation, review financing options for custom cabinetry.
Beyond the kitchen
The kitchen is the biggest cabinetry project most houses ever have, and it's where we do the most work. It isn't the only place cabinetry earns its keep.
Planning several spaces? Our Lenexa whole-home cabinetry guide separates the needs of a mudroom, office and basement. For an older room, explore custom-fit planning in Independence.
Design options
See the actual door, wood, and finish samples together before you choose the details that make the room yours.
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The single biggest driver of how the kitchen reads. Profiles across traditional, transitional, modern, and farmhouse.
02
How the door and drawer fronts meet the cabinet frame. Full overlay is one of four approaches that change the reveal around each opening.
Doors and drawers cover the face frame, leaving slim, consistent gaps between the fronts.
03
Grain, hardness, and how it takes color.
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Stain, paint, or a specialty finish, applied in our own finishing department.
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Pulls and knobs. The last decision and the one you touch every day.
Hardware photography pending
Not near Blue Springs? Every one of these is online with photos, so you can narrow it down before you make the drive. Browse all design options
Which one do you need
We'd rather point you at the cheaper job than sell you the bigger one.
Refacing is a fit when
Your cabinet boxes are sound and you like your layout. Refacing gives you new doors, new drawer fronts, and new quarter inch solid wood surfaces without replacing what's behind them.
Custom is a better fit when
The boxes have failed, you want to change the footprint, or you need sizes your current cabinets can't give you.
Since 1974
Crown started in a garage in Abilene, Kansas in 1974 and still builds there. Ryan Johnson bought the company in 2011, after years of ordering Crown cabinets as a remodeler. Jerry runs the plant with more than thirty years in the trade.
We're not a dealer and we're not a franchise. When you ask what your cabinets are made of and who built them, we can answer without making a phone call.
1974
Founded
50+
Years building
11
States served
Helpful answers
Semi-custom means choosing from a catalog of pre-built sizes and finishes, then filling the gaps where your room doesn't match the catalog. Custom means the cabinets are built to your room's actual dimensions after the design is finished. Nothing is cut until you've decided.
Often, yes. Bring photos or a door to the showroom and we'll tell you honestly how close we can get. Species, stain, and age all affect the answer, and an older finish that's darkened over time is harder to match than a new one.
Most custom projects run ten to twelve weeks from the point your design is finalized. Bigger jobs take longer, and the design phase before that is however long you need it to be.
Yes. Bathrooms, laundry rooms, mudrooms, home offices, garages, and built-ins like bookcases and entertainment walls. Closet systems and dedicated garage storage are covered under our storage solutions.
