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Originally Posted by iggypop
I had a great experience with https://www.canadakitchens.ca/ when I renovated my kitchen. Similar to IKEA, as they come flat packed and you build them yourself, but better quality with solid wood frames and dovetail joints. I think they were ~20% more than IKEA. |
The bolded isn't necessarily better, just a different style. Personally I'm not a huge fan of face frame cabinets either in terms of style or function. Similarly, wooden drawers are OK, but I prefer IKEA's Blum Tandembox drawers. But obviously that's mostly a matter of taste. And the integrated toekick in those cabinets would be more annoying to install vs. the leveling legs on IKEA cabinets (or a ladder-style plywood toekick if you really want to overbuild).
As for OP, if you want pretty high quality for a reasonable cost, IKEA is going to be your best bet, at least for the boxes and hardware. I've installed a bunch of them and you really can't beat them for the price. The doors and drawer fronts aren't the most amazing, but for a basement they'll be more than good enough. And if you want to splurge on the latter, there are lots of places that offer upgraded fronts sized for IKEA cabinets.