Easy answer: beautiful work, which is all Alex does, never goes out of style.

Neither will White. You can always dress it up with great/interesting appliances, pops of color, nice hardware, rugs, lighting, and accessories.

Need some Saturday design inspiration?

Not only do we love our customers for being our customers, they’re always super generous with sharing things like before/after photos.

Like here, from MDG Design Build in NYC. We make the fronts, these guys make the magic.

Remodeling on a budget?

Real Simple Magazine was nice enough to include Semihandmade in a round-up last month of less-than-gut remodel solutions to upgrading your kitchen or bathroom. Thanks @amandalauren.

realsimple.com/redo-kitchen-c…

Any fans of black kitchens out there?

All from our boxibysemihandmade cabinet line. Pics by Anjali Pinto, Elizabeth Messina, and Zachary Gray.

Hoping for a classic kitchen remodel without overspending on something like inset cabinets (beautiful, expensive, and also eat up valuable storage space) or more likely the US standard face-frame boxes (there are reasons the rest of the world is almost entirely frameless - more…

I get asked every once in a while about all-time favorite Semihandmade kitchens.

This one is definitely up there.

All credit to Jason Varney - he designed it, shot it (probably installed and styled it too).

Upping our Semihandmade offering for select IKEA USA cabinets - and our own kitchen and bathroom line - with these Walnut beauties (they’re also available in Rift White Oak).

Running a business is hard; trying to please all your employees is impossible.

Not that you don’t try. Or at least try to try. It’s important to ask, listen, and take feedback.

Case in point: May marks the start of month four of Semihandmade’s revised WFH program.

Like…

Hopeful Ben Stiller remembers it’s just a game, and stuff like this isn’t the cutest look. Go Philadelphia 76ers. 🏀🏀

Saw a Moses tweet earlier today re: “yellers” at work.

That was definitely me in our early days - almost entirely my ex-partner and I going after each other, never employees (if that helps). It makes me wince when longtime folks remind me of some of our more colorful rows (which…

Resharing longer than the original since the blue checkmark bought me extra oxygen.

Who says life doesn’t have second acts?

This is the woodshop I lived in for a year at age 40 when 2008 went to shit, I got divorced, and it was time to pivot (all fortunately before my now 12…

2.0 (for a few hundred dollars more) is repainting all the uppers to add some contrast/lighten things if you want. Also lets you replace the unwanted glass with paintable, quarter-inch MDF.

Unpopular take (apparently):

While kind of ridiculous… it is their money. And people make last-minute design changes on residential and construction sites all the time (we’ve been a part of quite a few).

Some of the outrage, I think, comes from the OP saying the cabinets are…