Thanks!

Wall and base cabinet finished ends are fully enclosed, with edge banding that matches the face material and finish. Tall cabinet finished ends, however, do not have edge banding on the top or bottom edges.

Chad’s tip about requesting the 60″ height in the order notes sounds like the simpler route, since you’d skip the niche and have no gray laminate showing.

If you still go with the niche, I’d confirm whether the finished end panels are finished on both faces. Many are only finished on the show side, so you might need two panels back to back for…

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On the Modern line, to order a 60″ tall 45-degree wall cabinet, you would need to order it at the current maximum height of 48″, then request that the height be changed to 60″ in the order notes at checkout on the credit card screen.

We will make the change on the back end. Any additional charge for the increased height would be calculated…

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Thanks. I’ll pass that along to our shipping team.

We’ve made a lot of changes over the years to keep these pallets safe in transit. Freight damage is extremely costly because it usually means replacement parts plus another freight charge, so we take it very seriously.

Over the past 15 years, we’ve steadily refined our packaging based on what…

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Good point on the color change over time. For reference, I’ll post a picture showing how Sapele ages. It tends to darken over time, similar to cherry.

Thank you Chad! That’s incredibly helpful. And I’m always impressed by your reply speed…

Sadly, the Slim Shaker would not work well as a glass door because of the way the frame is constructed behind the glass.

The hinge cup cuts into the panel area slightly, and that would be visible through the glass. The backside of the frame is also about 2.625″ wide, while the front is only 1″ wide to create the slim appearance while…

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Sure. To get a similar result, use Sherwin-Williams Gallery Clear Coat and apply two coats at about 4 to 5 mils wet thickness. A 20 sheen would be the standard sheen we use.

Sand before the first coat and again between coats. Our sanding process is automated with a Robatech Universal system, so the edges are broken evenly, but you can…

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If I do finish myself I assume that means I would need to give the walnut veneered plywood a light sanding first which scares me… The veneer looks very thin, do you always sand the veneered plywood before finishing? Would you recommend just hand sanding vs random orbital sander?

Hi Chad!

I ordered a kitchen package with slab plywood drawer/door fronts in Walnut with a Clearcoat finish. Order#: 1561 – Order date: 11/11/2025

I have some end panels and and toe kicks and a couple custom pieces I needed to make from walnut veneered plywood and I now need to finish them to match. If I send these pieces to a professional…

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Hi, I am interested in the slim shaker style doors for my kitchen. I have 2 doors that need to have glass insert. Also need some applied door finished end panels with squared bottom rail to go down to the floor. How does this work in the slim shaker? Do you have any photos of this? thanks!

One thing worth thinking about with sapele is that it can look a bit different depending on the angle and light because of the ribbon figure in the grain. On a top that thick with veneer on every face, the edges and underside might not read exactly like the top surface, so if the bottom will be visible from seating, you may want to ask for…

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I received my order a little over a week ago. The pieces are beautiful, as I expected. What I didn’t expect, as a person who received thousands of pallets during my career, was the quality of the packing for shipment. I have NEVER seen anything like. Genius level stuff and very much appreciated. Extraordinary work. Clearly a business that…

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All edges of that 1.5” thick top support would come banded and finished. Fully enclosed so no plywood is showing at all.

Three hinges on a door over 42” tall.

The doors on the Modern line are a bit heavier because the core material is denser than real wood. Because of that, we had to build in a few limitations on the flip-up cabinets after seeing a few orders that pushed the practical limits of both height and width. We ultimately limited the standard height to 16″.

The power factor for the Aventos…

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on something for a long time, and I’m excited to finally invite this community inside.

Today, we’re opening CabinetDesigner.ai and the completely new BarkerCustom.com experience running on it.

I own BarkerCustom, and I’m developing CabinetDesigner.ai. These are two connected projects with different jobs—and a…

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Sure. We do carry exposed and open-shelf wall cabinet options here:

https://www.barkercabinets.com/Kitchen-Glass-Door-and-Open-Wall-Cabinets-s/95.htm

Nice drawings, by the way.

Currently, we do not offer a pullout spice rack in a wall-cabinet format. The easiest option would be to order a standard wall cabinet and then add the spice rack of…

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MDF and PBC are simply the core materials commonly used in Europe for textured laminate and solid laminate doors. Those products generally are not offered with a plywood core because of the way they are manufactured.

Textured laminates, in particular, benefit from a smoother, slightly more compressible core that allows the press plates to…

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The tall end panels in the Modern line are limited by the sheet sizes available from Europe. They max out at approximately 108″ tall, so we cannot offer the 120″ version that is available with Barker Cabinets.

For the Barker line, we have 120″ sheets custom-made for us specifically so we can offer that taller size. With the Modern materials, we…

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At 60″ tall, we really consider that a tall cabinet. There has always been a little overlap in that range. Barker Cabinets originally allowed taller wall and base cabinets, but we have since brought those back to a 48″ maximum height.

Some wall cabinets are still available up to 60″, and our new line being released shortly will bring the…

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Yes, the Modern line uses the exact same reveals as the City and Barker lines. So, for a flip-up cabinet, there would be a 1/8″ reveal along the bottom.

Currently, we do not build the U-shaped drawer boxes shown here. This is not really something we specialize in, as there are many prebuilt or semi-custom vanity options that include this style by default.

We specialize more in larger-scale custom bathroom built-ins rather than smaller freestanding vanity units like this.

You could certainly order…

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Can you create a custom bathroom vanity? I am interested in a 30” vanity with 2 drawers but with differing sizes. Additionally, the drawers would need the cutout for the sink and plumbing, as well as I would like dividers or sections in the top drawer. Because I am looking at the Windsor cabinet style for the other shelves and drawers, I was…

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Attached are the sketched concepts.

I am leaning heavily towards using Barker Cabinets throughout our new home build. I am becoming more familiar with how to piece the different cabinets together to create a look we are after. The tutorials and videos that Chad has put together have been great at the learning process.

One thing that I have not quite figured out is how to…

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City and Barker orders are produced independently of each other and unfortunately cannot be combined. Combining them would create too many logistical issues, particularly with holding completed orders on the shipping dock while waiting for the other order to finish production.

Valley and Evolve are both made with the PBC.

Barker Modern cabinet doors use particleboard for the textured laminates and MDF for the solid colors.

We are slowly transitioning to the new white oak and expect it to be fully implemented by the end of this year. Pricing should remain similar. Technically, the new sheets are more expensive to produce because the veneers have to be shuffled…

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Currently, we do not offer a vertical tray-divider cabinet with an exposed interior that matches the finished face/exterior of the cabinet.

We do offer standard exposed-interior cabinets with or without adjustable shelves. While these are not specifically designed as tray-divider cabinets, they can certainly be modified on site to create…

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Yes, here is the exact light gray paint we use, directly from Sherwin-Williams.

Correct. To add to this, we have videos and a written explanation showing how to order drawer boxes based on the Blumotion slides we carry at the link below. Please be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page to view the tutorials.

For a quick reference on the measuring requirements for the Tandem/Movento slides, please also see the attached…

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For a 23-1/2″ clear opening, I’d size the drawer box based on the slide manufacturer’s required side clearance rather than using a universal formula.

For example, with slides requiring 1/2″ clearance per side, the drawer box width would be:

23-1/2″ − 1/2″ − 1/2″ = 22-1/2″

For the 5-1/16″ opening height, the box height depends on the slide…

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Hi, Noticed you had a Sherwin Williams formula for Dark Gray. Do you also have one for the Light Gray? Thanks!

What’s the formula for determining what size drawer box? For example, if I had a 23.5 inch wide by 5-1/16” tall opening (cabinet is 23” deep, what size box would I need? Thanks!

Currently, no, we would not be able to provide the cabinet with an integrated finger pull. There simply is not enough space to create a proper finger-pull edge on the doors because the cabinets use very tight, streamlined reveals of about 1/8″ between doors and drawer fronts.

I have seen customers use push-to-open hardware instead of handles,…

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Does Barker have an option for integrated pulls on doors? Thank you

Sure. I would not rely on Chief Architect for exact door sizes. It is not fully dialed in to our construction standards.

I would use Chief more as a design playground where you can get a good idea of what the cabinet will look like. The interior details and individual part sizes are still pretty loose and may not be especially accurate. We…

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Yes, the custom-height rail molding has edge banding on all four long edges. Only the small ends on the far left and right are unfinished plywood.

This molding is designed to work well in mitered applications, allowing you to wrap it around corners and use it to finish off various cabinet areas cleanly.

That is just the 3D computer-generated cabinet example. It automatically puts pulls on drawer fronts, so it sees the trash rollout with the front attached as one very tall drawer box and places the pull right in the middle of the panel.

Personally, I would prefer the handle to be located on the top rail of the front rather than centered on…

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On the images of your trash pull-outs the drawer-pull/handle is pictured in the center of the door/drawer front. Is this where you recommend placing the handle? Aesthetically we would prefer to place it close to the top. Ours is 18in wide with the slab front. Thank you.

Sure! As a frame-and-panel door gets taller, it needs additional support. Adding horizontal rails and dividing the center into smaller panels helps strengthen the door and resist warping, twisting and bowing.

There’s also a practical material benefit. Even high-quality rough lumber has natural imperfections we need to cut around. The longer the…

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