Kitchen & bath cabinets in Cape May, NJ
Kitchen Cabinets in Cape May, New Jersey
Kitchen and bath cabinetry for Cape May homes, from Victorian restorations to bed and breakfast kitchens, designed free and priced at wholesale.
- Free design consultation
- Free 3D rendering
- Wholesale pricing
- 17 cabinet brands
Cape May, NJ
Cabinets that suit a Cape May house
Kitchen cabinets in Cape May go into some of the oldest kitchens we see. After the fires of 1869 and 1878 the town rebuilt almost entirely in Victorian style, and the whole city is now a National Historic Landmark, so the streets around Washington Street, Hughes Street, Columbia Avenue and Beach Avenue are gingerbread cottages, Second Empire and Queen Anne houses from the 1870s through the 1900s, many of them running as bed and breakfasts and inns. Their kitchens were built for a cook and a back door, often in a rear addition. The east end around Poverty Beach and the streets off Pittsburgh Avenue are fifties and sixties ranches and capes that owners are opening up, and the newer homes and condos near the harbor and along Lafayette Street add a modern kitchen with a long island to the mix.
So a Cape May project is either a period kitchen that has to serve breakfast to twelve guests without looking out of place, or an east end ranch getting a real kitchen for the first time. We design to what the house gives us, choose a door that reads correct for its decade, render it in 3D and quote it from seventeen lines at a direct price.
What we do in Cape May
Kitchen cabinets for Cape May homes
The cabinets for a Cape May Victorian have to look like they were always there and work like a commercial kitchen at seven in the morning. Painted inset or beaded-inset doors in a warm white, furniture toe kicks, glass uppers for the dishes guests see, and a deep drawer stack where the cook actually works. Stacked uppers use the ceiling height, scribe moldings take up walls that settled in the 1880s. In an east end cape the order is a clean shaker, deep drawers along the long wall and a peninsula with seating where the dining room wall came down. Seventeen lines, stock through custom, sold direct.
Kitchen cabinet lines we supply to Cape May →Countertops for Cape May kitchens
Countertops for a Cape May kitchen have to suit a house from the 1880s and survive a bed and breakfast schedule. That usually means a honed quartz or a granite with a simple eased or ogee edge, and a slab backsplash that covers an old plaster wall in one piece. Rye Marble & Granite, our sister company in the same building, templates the stone to the new cabinets after they are set, which is how a top fits tight to the walls of a Victorian rear addition, and sets the install between bookings so the kitchen is down for as little time as possible.
Countertops for Cape May kitchens →Bathroom vanities for Cape May bathrooms
Cape May bathrooms in the Victorians were carved out of bedrooms a century ago and tend to be narrow, so the vanity is a furniture-style single with drawers that reads period and adds storage the room never had. For a guest house doing six or eight baths at once we match every vanity in one door and finish and ship them together with the kitchen. In the east end ranches and the harbor condos the bath gets a modern single or double vanity sized to the existing plumbing, with a linen tower and medicine cabinet to match the kitchen.
Bathroom vanities for Cape May bathrooms →Kitchen and bath design in Cape May
Design for a Cape May house starts with a careful measure and a photo of the trim, because the kitchen has to belong to the house. We note ceiling height, the chimney breast, the back door the cook needs and the walls that are no longer square, lay the room out with you, and build a 3D rendering so you can judge the inset door and the warm white against your own floors before ordering. For an inn we plan the volume: where twelve plates land, where the coffee lives. The consultation, the rendering and the written quote are free.
Free design with a 3D rendering →Cape May
Working with an older house
In a Cape May home the cabinets have to meet the house halfway. We measure for out-of-square walls and uneven floors, pick a door that suits the age of the rooms rather than fighting it, and plan the fillers and scribes before the order rather than on install day. A painted inset door in a warm white is the classic answer; a full-overlay shaker reads a little more current. Samples are in the showroom to hold against a piece of your trim, and for an inn we schedule delivery and installation for the quiet weeks of the off season.
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Our brands
The cabinet lines we supply to Cape May
Seventeen lines on one floor means a beaded-inset door for a Hughes Street Victorian and a plain shaker for a Pittsburgh Avenue cape both come from one showroom at a direct price.
The showroom trip
Getting to our showroom from Cape May
From Cape May take Lafayette Street out to Route 109 and onto the Garden State Parkway at its start, run north to the Black Horse Pike exit and follow the Pike into Pleasantville; the showroom is at 7034 Black Horse Pike, Suite 1. Innkeepers tend to come in the off season with photos of the kitchen at breakfast service, which tells us more than measurements alone.
Nearby
We also design kitchens in Stone Harbor, Avalon and Sea Isle City
From a Columbia Avenue inn to a harbor condo, a Cape May kitchen is designed to the age of the house and rendered before the first cabinet is ordered.
Good to know
Cape May cabinet questions
Can you match the period of a Victorian kitchen?
Yes. Inset, beaded-inset and raised-panel doors in painted finishes are in our lines, with furniture details and glass uppers, and the 3D rendering shows the choice in your actual room.
Do you plan kitchens for guest houses and inns?
We do. An inn kitchen needs more storage, more counter and tougher hardware than a family kitchen, and we plan for the volume. Delivery and installation get scheduled for the off season when the house is quiet.
What happens with walls that settled a century ago?
We plan for them up front. Scribe moldings, adjustable fillers and a careful field measure before the order are how a Cape May kitchen ends up looking built in rather than dropped in.
Can you handle the installation in Cape May?
Yes, through our affiliated licensed contractor, Build With Konstructit, NJ HIC #13VH13697200. If you already have a contractor we coordinate measurements and delivery with them.
Do the countertops come with the cabinets?
They can. Quartz, granite and laminate are templated to the new layout by Rye Marble & Granite, our sister company in the same building, so the kitchen stays on one schedule.
Is there a charge for the design work?
No. The layout, the material selection and the 3D rendering are included, and the written quote comes with no obligation to buy.