Hayden Ellis

Green cabinets have been showing up everywhere the last couple of years — design blogs, listing photos, that one kitchen everyone saved from Pinterest. Enough that it's fair to ask the obvious question before spending real money on it: is this actually going to look dated in five years, or is it one of those trends that just sticks?

The honest answer is it depends entirely on which green you pick. Some shades of green really are a trend, and they'll read that way by 2028. Sage isn't one o

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If you've noticed more customers asking for wood tone over white lately, you're not imagining it. Warm wood cabinetry is moving from an occasional special request to something worth planning showroom floor space around — and the dealers who treat it as a rerun of the 90s oak trend are going to be slower to stock it than the ones who understand why this

Quick Answer: Framed vs. Frameless Cabinets

Framed cabinets have a face frame attached to the front of the cabinet box. Frameless cabinets eliminate that frame and attach doors directly to the cabinet sides.

For wholesale buyers, the difference affects more than appearance. It can influence installation, usable cabinet openings, hardware, replacement parts, inventory strategy, and which customer segments a product line serves best.

What Is a Framed Cabinet?

Quick Answer: How Do You Choose a Wholesale Cabinet Supplier?

Do not compare suppliers on cabinet price alone.

A strong wholesale cabinet supplier should give dealers clear answers about inventory availability, lead times, warehouse coverage, freight, claims, warranty, product continuity, design tools, and channel policy.

These nine questions help uncover those differences before they affect your customers.

1. Can I See What Is Actually in Stock?

Quick Answer: How Long Do Wholesale Cabinets Take?

There is no single cabinet lead time that applies to every wholesale order.

The total timeline depends on stock availability, order confirmation, warehouse preparation, RTA or assembled format, order volume, freight method, receiving, and post-delivery preparation.

For dealers and contractors, the best approach is to treat cabinet lead time as a process rather than one shipping number.

As a general

Quick Answer: RTA vs. Assembled Cabinets

RTA wins on freight and warehouse space. Assembled wins when you don't have a helper, or anywhere to put one.

That's most of the answer, and most dealers already know which side of it they're on. What trips people up is treating this as a preference — cheaper versus easier, the way it gets explained to homeowners — when it's really a question about your own operation. How far are your jobs from the warehouse that serves you? Do you have sho