Madison Quality Custom Cabinets | Kitchen Cabinets, Commercial Cabinets & Cabinet Installation
Experienced and trusted contractor serving Madison, WI
Madison Quality Custom Cabinets brings over 20 years of experience to custom cabinet design and installation for homes and businesses in Madison, Wisconsin and its surrounding suburbs. Every cabinet is built in our own Madison workshop and installed by our own crew, so one team stays accountable from the first measurement through the final walkthrough.
We build using kiln-dried hardwoods, furniture-grade plywood boxes, and dovetail-joined drawers, cut with CNC precision so each piece fits your exact space rather than a standard size. Every cabinet gets Blum soft-close hinges and full-extension ball-bearing slides, built to Architectural Woodwork Institute quality standards. We handle kitchens, bathrooms, and built-in storage for homeowners alongside full casework for offices, clinics, and commercial spaces, and we never subcontract installation to outside crews. Every install is backed by a workmanship guarantee.
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Commercial Custom Cabinetry in Madison, WI
Custom Cabinets for Medical Clinics
Exam room casework is built for fast access and easy disinfection, with nonporous surfaces, sealed seams, and Blum soft-close hinges that keep noise down. We plan seated-height charting sections, cutouts for glove and PPE dispensers, and ventilation clearance around vaccine refrigerators.
Storage is mapped against your actual inventory before we build, with adjustable shelving for supplies that turn over, keyed-alike cylinders so one key runs the clinic, and lockable compartments for controlled substances. Nurse stations and check-in desks are built to match.
Tailored Setups for Dental Clinics
Dental casework has to support a one-directional sterilization workflow, so we lay out receiving, cleaning, packaging, and storage zones in sequence rather than clustering them. Sterilization centers get recessed openings for ultrasonic cleaners, heat clearance around autoclave placement, and drawers built for tub-and-tray systems.
Treatment room cabinetry is built around your operatory layout, including assistant-side pull-out trays, slim units that clear delivery arms and chair travel, and dedicated storage for handpieces and sensors. Reception millwork is finished to match the clinical spaces.
Premium Millwork for Law Firms
Law firm millwork tends toward quartersawn white oak, walnut, and cherry, and quartersawn oak fits Madison's Prairie School tradition if you want the space to reference it. We build reception desks, private office storage, and conference credenzas with book-matched panels and finishes carried across every room.
File storage is sized for legal-size folders, with full-extension ball-bearing slides and anti-tip interlocks on lateral units so only one drawer opens at a time. Locking sections are built in for confidential files, and conference cabinetry conceals media behind matched panels.
Professional Office Cabinets
We build reception counters, workstation storage, and full storage walls sized to your floor plan, with plywood boxes and hardwood fronts that hold their finish through daily contact. Cable grommets and pass-throughs are cut in during fabrication rather than drilled on site afterward.
Break rooms get upper and lower cabinets with appliance counter space and separate waste and recycling cutouts. Given Madison winters, we build closed lockers or cubby walls into entry and staff areas for real coat and boot storage.
Specialized Cabinetry for Salons & Spas
Stylist stations are built around the tools, with heat-resistant holsters for irons and dryers, drawers sized for shears and combs, and outlet placement that keeps cords off the work surface. Color bars get a mixing counter, a bowl and drain, and ventilated storage kept separate from retail product.
Backwash surrounds, treatment room casework, and retail display use moisture-resistant substrates and sealed finishes, since these rooms run humid and see constant chemical contact. Open display runs up front with closed back-stock storage behind.
High-Traffic Restaurant and Cafe Fixtures
Restaurant fixtures take more abuse than any other commercial cabinetry we build, so service counters get stainless edging on impact points, spill-resistant surfaces, and sealed toe kicks with coved bases for washdowns. Host stands are built with tablet and POS mounts integrated rather than added on top.
Bar and back-of-house cabinetry is built around your equipment, with clearance for undercounter refrigeration, cutouts for ice bins and drain lines, and bottle storage sized to your service. Supper club and tavern spaces often want a hardwood bar front paired with a fully washable working side.
Custom Cabinets for Stores and Boutiques
Retail cabinetry has to sell and store at the same time. We build display cases with locking sliding glass fronts and Grade 1-rated hardware, adjustable standards so displays can be reset seasonally, and fixtures sized to your merchandise rather than a general shelf depth.
Checkout counters are built with storage for bags, wrap, registers, and POS hardware, plus a drop safe cutout where cash handling requires one. Back-stock cabinetry is built for volume and durability, and every fixture is finished to match your existing branding.
Custom Cabinets for Design Studios
Studios need somewhere real to put samples, so we build slotted bins for tile and stone, shallow drawer banks for fabric and finish boards, and vertical tube storage for rolled drawings. Flat files are sized to hold full architectural sheets flat rather than folded.
Workstations are built with monitor and plotter cutouts, cable management routed through the box, and tackable panel sections above the work surface for active projects. Because we finish in-house, display cabinetry can double as a live sample of the species, stains, and hardware you specify.
Residential Cabinetry Options in the Madison, WI
Kitchen Cabinet Installation
Kitchens are the largest projects we take on, built with base, wall, and full-height cabinets laid out around your work triangle and appliance placement. Drawer banks are configured for what goes in them, with deep pot drawers, divided utensil trays, and vertical dividers for sheet pans and cutting boards.
We measure existing walls and floors before building, which matters in Madison's older homes where nothing is plumb or level. That's what keeps runs from ending with a tapered filler strip or a gap at the ceiling.
Pantry and Storage Cabinet Installation
Pantry cabinetry is built around adjustable shelving, pull-out shelves for canned goods, and door-mounted racks that recover the space a swinging door usually wastes. Shelf spacing is set to what you store rather than a standard interval.
For mudrooms, hall closets, and utility spaces, we size units to the available footprint instead of standard dimensions. Wisconsin winters make a real mudroom worth building, with bench seating, closed boot storage, and hooks or lockers per person.
Bathroom Vanity Cabinet Installation
Vanities need precise cutouts for supply lines and drains plus materials that hold up to daily moisture, so we build with water-resistant substrates and finishes rated for humid conditions. Single and double-sink configurations, floating vanities, and built-in linen towers are all standard options.
Each unit is measured on-site to account for plumbing rough-in, wall irregularities, and existing fixture finishes. Older Madison bathrooms in particular tend to have out-of-square walls that a stock vanity won't sit flush against.
Laundry Room Cabinet Installation
Laundry cabinetry has to handle moisture, detergent contact, and constant use. We build uppers for supply storage above the washer and dryer, base cabinets with folding counter space, and a tall unit for brooms and vacuums where the floor plan allows.
Common additions include built-in tilt-out hampers, pull-out drying racks, and a slot for the ironing board. Hardware and finishes are specified for humid conditions, which matters in the basement laundry rooms common in Madison's older housing.
Entertainment Center and Living Room Cabinetry
Living room cabinetry centers on media storage, built-in shelving, and fireplace surrounds sized around your television, components, and speaker placement, with wiring chases and ventilated compartments so equipment isn't sealed in.
We also build bookcases and display cabinets matched to existing trim and molding. In older Madison homes that often means replicating a Craftsman or Prairie-style profile so the new work reads as original to the house.
Home Office Cabinetry and Shelving
Home office cabinetry has become a steady request as more Madison-area work moves home. We build desks, bookcases, and file storage fitted to the room's dimensions, with drawers sized for letter or legal folders and adjustable shelving above.
Cable management is planned into the build rather than drilled in afterward, with grommets, rear pass-throughs, and a closed cabinet for the router and power strip so cords stay off the floor.
Our Quality Materials
Solid Wood
We use kiln-dried solid hardwoods for door fronts, face frames, and anywhere strength and visible grain carry the design, with maple, cherry, oak, and hickory as the usual species. Kiln drying brings moisture content down before fabrication, which limits the warping and joint separation Wisconsin's humidity cycle causes in air-dried stock.
Solid wood takes stain evenly and can be sanded and repaired years later, which manufactured panels cannot. It costs more than the alternatives, so we recommend it where the wood itself is meant to be seen rather than for hidden boxes.
Plywood
Cabinet boxes are built from furniture-grade plywood rather than particleboard. Cross-grained veneer layers distribute stress across the panel, which gives plywood its screw-holding strength and keeps shelves from sagging under dishes, cookware, and pantry loads.
That layered construction also resists splitting at joints and hinge points, and it handles humidity changes better than particleboard where it matters most, under sinks and along exterior walls. It costs less than solid wood while outperforming it for box construction.
MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard)
MDF has a dense, uniform composition with no grain, which is exactly what a painted door needs. Routed and raised profiles come out crisp, edges finish smooth, and paint lays down without the grain-raising that shows through on solid wood over time.
We use it for door and panel applications only, never for cabinet boxes or drawer bodies. It is heavier than plywood and swells if it takes on prolonged moisture, so it stays out of structural locations and away from sinks and dishwashers...
Wood Veneer
Veneer is a thin layer of real hardwood over a plywood or MDF substrate, which delivers the look of solid wood on wide panels without the seasonal movement solid stock develops at those widths. Cabinet ends, island panels, and oversized door fronts are the typical applications.
We match grain across adjacent panels so a run reads as continuous rather than assembled from unrelated pieces. Finish quality depends on veneer thickness, so we source higher-grade material to keep it consistent with the solid wood around it.
Thermofoil
Thermofoil is a vinyl layer heat-fused to an MDF core, producing a seamless surface with uniform color and texture across every door in a kitchen. It resists surface moisture, cleans with ordinary household products, and costs less than painted or stained wood.
Heat is the limitation. Prolonged exposure can break the vinyl bond, so we advise against it beside ovens, above unvented cooktops, and next to dishwasher vents. We go through the layout with you before recommending it for a kitchen.
Painted vs. Stained Finishes
Painted finishes go over MDF or prepared solid wood and give you an opaque, uniform surface in any color, built up in multiple coats with sanding between layers. The tradeoff is that chips need touching up, since there is no grain underneath to disguise them.
Stained finishes need solid wood or quality veneer to work, and shade selection depends on species because each absorbs color differently. Stain ages more forgivingly, since natural tone variation hides scuffs that paint would show. Both get a protective topcoat as standard.
Our Process: From Quote Request to Final Cabinet Installation
Step 1: Initial Project Consultation
We start with a conversation about the space, the budget, and what the cabinetry actually has to do, whether that's a kitchen you cook in daily or a clinic that needs storage mapped to a workflow. If you have a designer, architect, or general contractor already involved, we bring them in at this stage rather than working around them later. This conversation is free, and it tells us whether the project is ready for an onsite visit or still needs scope defined first.
Step 2: Onsite Measurement & Verification
We laser-measure the room and record wall dimensions, ceiling height, window and door placement, plumbing rough-in, outlet and switch locations, and appliance or equipment specs. We also check walls for plumb and floors for level across the full run, because Madison's older housing stock rarely gives us either. Balloon-framed homes on the near west and east sides commonly run out of square by half an inch or more across a wall, and we would rather build to that reality than shim around it on install day.
Step 3: Design, Material Selection, and Shop Drawings
We produce a layout with elevations showing every cabinet, then work through species, door style, and finish with samples in hand. Kiln-dried hardwoods go where grain and strength show, furniture-grade plywood carries the boxes, and hardware gets specified at this stage rather than assumed, including Blum soft-close hinges and full-extension ball-bearing slides rated to each drawer's intended load. You approve the shop drawings before anything is cut, and the written proposal breaks cost out by species, cabinet size, and finish complexity.
Step 4: Review, Revision, and Approval
We revise until the drawings and the number both work. Changes cost nothing at this stage and a great deal after fabrication starts, so we would rather spend an extra round here than discover a problem in the shop. A signed agreement and deposit, scaled to project size, puts you on the production calendar with a target install window.
Step 5: Shop Fabrication and In-House Installation
Your cabinets are cut on our CNC, assembled with dovetail-joined drawer boxes, and finished in our Madison shop under AWI quality standards. We dry-fit assemblies before they leave and let finished work acclimate rather than moving it straight from a conditioned shop into a job site mid-winter, which is how panels check and joints open. Installation is handled by our own crew, never subcontracted, including demo and haul-away of the old cabinetry, scribing to the walls, leveling, and final hardware adjustment. We walk the job with you before calling it complete, and every install carries our workmanship guarantee.
Cabinet Hardware and Storage Organization Systems
Hardware determines how cabinets function on a daily basis, and it is the part of a build people notice years later rather than on installation day. We fit every project with Blum components, corner solutions engineered for full access, and pull-out systems sized to what actually goes in them. These are specified during design alongside the cabinet layout, not selected afterward from whatever fits the opening.
Soft-Close Hinges & Full-Extension Drawer Slides
Blum soft-close hinges go on every cabinet door we build, controlling the closing motion so doors settle shut quietly instead of slamming against the frame. Every hinge is adjustable in three directions, which is what lets us bring door reveals back into alignment as a house settles.
Full-extension ball-bearing slides let drawers pull out completely, so nothing gets lost at the back. They also carry higher weight loads than standard slides, and we rate each one to the load its drawer is designed to hold, which matters for deep pot drawers and dish storage.
Corner & Blind Cabinet Solutions
Corner cabinets waste space without the right hardware, so we fit them with rotating trays or pull-out systems that bring stored items forward instead of leaving them buried against the back wall.
Configuration depends on cabinet width and door swing, so there is no single solution we apply by default.
Blind corners are a harder problem, since part of the cabinet sits behind the adjacent run and cannot be reached at all. Pull-out mechanisms built for blind corners swing the shelf out and forward as the door opens, bringing the hidden section into full view.
Pull-Out Organization Systems
Pull-out systems replace stacking and digging with direct access. Narrow vertical cabinets get tiered spice pull-outs, base cabinets get concealed trash and recycling bins on full-extension slides, and tall pantry units get multiple shelves that extend fully so nothing sits unreachable at the back.
Drawer interiors are divided for what goes in them, with knife blocks, utensil trays, and vertical dividers for sheet pans and cutting boards. Each system is sized to its cabinet opening during design so the storage matches the layout rather than being retrofitted into it.
Commercial Cabinet Installation Cost
Commercial cabinet costs in Madison vary based on the type of business, casework specification, and how far the layout departs from standard sizes. Pricing breaks down by linear foot rather than a flat project rate, with stock commercial casework running roughly $100 to $300 per linear foot, semi-custom $200 to $450, and full custom $400 to $800 depending on materials, hardware grade, and equipment coordination. A single office break room typically lands between $5,000 and $12,000, while a multi-room medical or dental buildout commonly runs $20,000 to $50,000 or more.
What moves a project within that range is specification rather than square footage. Solid surface tops with coved sealed edges, keyed locking systems, chemical-resistant finishes, anti-tip file hardware, and equipment-specific cutouts all add cost, and each one is a durability decision rather than an appearance decision. We also factor in existing plumbing and electrical rough-in, floor level, wall condition, Madison-market labor rates, and whether the space was previously built out for the same use. Every quote separates material, hardware, finish, and installation so you can adjust before fabrication starts.
Request a quote to get an accurate estimate on your next cabinet project.
Commercial Project Type | Typical Cost Range |
|---|---|
Office Break Room | $5,000-$12,000 |
Reception & Professional Office Millwork | $8,000-$25,000 |
Law Firm Millwork (Hardwood) | $15,000-$40,000 |
Medical or Dental Buildout | $20,000-$50,000+ |
Servicing Madison and Surrounding Areas
Our Service Areas in Madison, WI:
Madison Quality Custom Cabinets proudly serves homeowners and businesses throughout Madison and the surrounding Dane County area, including:
- Shorewood Hills
- Maple Bluff
- Monona
- Middleton
- Fitchburg
- McFarland
- Verona
- Waunakee
- Cottage Grove
- Sun Prairie
- DeForest
- Oregon
- Cross Plains
- Stoughton
- Mount Horeb
If your neighborhood isn't listed, contact us. We regularly take on projects elsewhere in southern Wisconsin.
Custom Cabinet FAQs
We design and build cabinetry for kitchens, bathrooms, mudrooms, home offices, entertainment centers, and laundry rooms. Our work covers both residential and commercial projects.
Every piece is built in our own Madison workshop using kiln-dried hardwoods and furniture-grade plywood boxes. We rely on CNC-precision cutting to keep every component accurate and consistent.
Pricing depends on the size of your kitchen, the wood species you select, and the level of customization you want. Dovetail-joined drawers, Blum soft-close hinges, and full-extension ball-bearing slides are standard features that affect the final cost.
We provide detailed quotes after an in-home consultation so you know exactly what you're paying for. There are no hidden fees added after the project begins.
Most projects move from initial consultation to finished installation within 6 to 10 weeks. This timeline includes design revisions, fabrication in our workshop, and on-site installation.
Larger commercial jobs or highly customized designs may take longer. We give you a realistic timeline upfront and keep you updated as your project moves through each stage.
Yes, we build custom bathroom vanities, linen cabinets, and built-in storage for closets, hallways, and living spaces. Each piece is constructed with the same kiln-dried hardwoods and furniture-grade plywood we use in our kitchen cabinetry.
We work with you to match your storage needs to your available space. Every vanity and built-in is designed to fit your home rather than a standard template.
We offer a range of hardwood species, stain colors, and painted finishes to match your design preferences. Our drawer boxes use dovetail joinery for strength, and our doors are cut with CNC precision for consistent fit.
Hardware includes Blum soft-close hinges and full-extension ball-bearing slides on every drawer. All cabinetry is built to Architectural Woodwork Institute (AWI) quality standards.
We offer in-home consultations to measure your space, discuss design options, and answer your questions in person. This step helps us create an accurate plan before any building begins.
Installation is handled entirely by our own team; we never subcontract this part of the process. Every install comes with a workmanship guarantee, and we have over 20 years of experience installing cabinetry throughout Madison and the surrounding area.
Yes. We build sterilization casework, operatory and exam room cabinetry, reception millwork, and file storage for clinics, dental practices, law firms, and professional offices throughout Madison. Commercial casework is designed around your equipment placement and workflow rather than adapted from a residential layout.
Materials are specified for the setting, which usually means nonporous surfaces, sealed seams, keyed locking systems, and hardware rated for constant daily use. We measure on site before quoting rather than pricing off a floor plan.
Yes. We regularly replicate existing crown molding, casing, and door profiles so new built-ins read as original to the house. In Madison's older neighborhoods that often means matching a Craftsman or Prairie-style profile rather than a stock catalog option.
We bring samples to the consultation and confirm the match before fabrication begins. Older homes also tend to run out of plumb and out of square, so we build to the room's actual dimensions instead of shimming to close the gap.
Stock cabinets come in fixed widths and finishes and ship quickly, which works when a standard size fits the space. Semi-custom starts from a stock frame with upgraded doors, finishes, and interior options. Full custom means the cabinet is built to your dimensions with the species, joinery, and hardware you specify.
The practical difference shows up where the space is irregular. Stock runs end in filler strips, while custom runs end flush against the wall. We build custom, which is why we measure the room before anything is cut.
Yes. Demo and haul-away of existing cabinetry are part of the installation, and we quote them upfront rather than adding them later. Countertops, sinks, and appliances that need to come out are coordinated in the same schedule.
We protect floors and adjacent surfaces before demo starts and clean the space at the end of each day. Most kitchens go from demo to finished install without you needing to leave the house.
Madison runs a dry forced-air heating season followed by a humid summer, and that annual swing is what opens joints and racks doors on poorly built cabinets. Kiln-dried stock stabilizes moisture content before fabrication, and furniture-grade plywood boxes move far less across the cycle than particleboard.
We also let finished work acclimate before installing rather than moving it straight from a conditioned shop to a job site mid-winter. That step prevents panel checking and finish cracking in the first heating season.