Who Designs The Cabinets For Custom Homes, The Architect Or The Cabinet Company?

Who Designs The Cabinets For Custom Homes, The Architect Or The Cabinet Company?

Frankly, most times, you can't get an Architect to design a kitchen. Sure, they draw the layout for cabinets in the kitchen, baths etc. while designing your home but it's not what they normally do. Architects basically provide the space for cabinets in their design but don't specialize in the actual cabinetry layout and design.

It's best to bring in your selected cabinetry company as you are having you house plans designed. Once you approve the preliminary plan but before the house design gets too far advanced, it's time to call in the experts, the cabinetry company. They will take your building plans and provide actual drawings of individual cabinetry units in the kitchen and baths. Then the Architect incorporates this design into the building plans.

This is where a design build agreement with your builder comes into play. As a Homeowner, you want as many professionals guiding your cabinet design as possible. Your Builders, Cabinet Company Designer, Interior Designer, Architect as well as the Builder himself. Each will be looking at your cabinetry from a different perspective with the goal being the very best layout and design for your families needs.

The worst situation is when the architect completes a set of building plans and then sends the plans out to multiple Builders for a bid. Frankly, it's too late at this point to fix a poor set of plans and bad cabinet layouts. The best that anyone can do now is to take the completed plans and make the best of what you have. The end result will be a mediocre kitchen and bath design that you will regret.