Custom Cabinets: Best Places to Buy Cabinets: Part 7/8 Lumber Yards
What you need to know about lumber yards
Lumber yards came into being almost two centuries ago to meet the need for a common understanding between the mills and the markets as they were increasingly distanced from rail or water transportation. Traditionally, lumber yards served communities as retail establishments by supplying lumber and wood related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects. 
Today, you might find big box stores with lumber sections, but certainly not the essence of the traditional lumber yards that are typically multi-generational, family-owned businesses that have earned the trust over the years from local patrons, many times providing everything from flooring to handy-man type services. Some have grown to have multiple locations and even regional chains. As a consideration for the focus of this series on best places to buy custom cabinets, these very resourceful establishments most likely carry stock and RTA cabinetry and some may also carry semi-custom cabinetry albeit lesser-known brands.
Lumber yards derive much of their business furnishing supplies to various trade businesses. So, while lumber yards can have conveniently on-hand valuable supplies for a trade professional, they typically are not geared toward serving the average homeowner looking to do a complete kitchen remodel or acquire custom kitchen cabinets. For their stock cabinetry products, the availability at lumber yards is subject to what’s in stock and wood and color options as well as warranties are limited to the brands, stock or semi-custom, which they carry. Really for the do-it-yourselfer, if you intend on going to a lumber yard, you should prepare to provide your own kitchen design, measurements and plans. Good contracting services are often found, but service levels vary greatly from one lumber yard to another.
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