Direct Answer
Cabinet pricing at Cabo comes down to five factors: door style, finish type, box construction, hardware grade, and order volume. A painted shaker door costs more than a slab. Stain requires more labor than paint. Assembled boxes cost more than RTA. Soft close hardware adds to the bill. And a 40 unit order per month earns better pricing than a single unit trial. These variables stack, so a high volume buyer ordering RTA slab doors in a standard paint will hit a very different price point than a builder speccing assembled raised panel doors in custom stain at low volume.
We do not publish a price list because every project is different. A bathroom vanity package runs differently than a full kitchen with uppers, lowers, and pantry towers. We quote each project to spec once we know exactly what you need and how much of it you will order over time.
Why It Matters
Understanding the cost drivers lets you design to a budget without guessing. If you are developing 200 apartments and need to hit a per unit cabinet cost, you can choose a painted slab door in frameless construction and RTA delivery to bring the number down. If you are building custom single family homes where the cabinet package is a selling point, you spec assembled framed boxes with shaker doors in a stained finish and the pricing reflects that level of detail.
Volume is the other half. Cabo builds roughly 8,000 apartment units of cabinetry a month, about 200 shipping containers. Our National Accounts program is built for buyers who can commit to consistent volume over quarters and years. A developer ordering 50 units a month will see sharper pricing than a contractor ordering five units twice a year. The factory runs best when it can schedule long production runs of similar specs, and that efficiency shows up in the quote.
How It Works
You send us drawings, a cut list, or a scope of work. We quote the specific configuration: framed or frameless, RTA or assembled, door style, finish, hardware. If you are buying at volume, we talk about cadence and commitment, then adjust pricing accordingly.
Production takes about 30 days once the spec is locked. Delivery by land to a US job site runs under 7 days, so five weeks total from confirmed spec to cabinets on site. Ordering from Asia adds 45 to 90 days of ocean transit, which means more warehousing cost and less flexibility if plans change. Cabo is CARB Phase 2 and TSCA Title VI compliant, which matters for California projects and increasingly for other states.
We build to your exact spec and ship branded as your own, your name on every box. You are not buying a stock program. You are speccing a manufacturing run.
What To Specify For Budget Control
If cost is the priority, start with these choices. Frameless box construction eliminates the face frame and uses less material. RTA ships flat and saves on freight, though you pay for assembly labor on site. Slab doors are the simplest to produce: no routing, no profiling, just a clean flat panel. Painted finishes in standard colors run faster through the shop than stained wood, which requires sanding, sealing, and hand work.
Soft close hardware is now standard across most of our orders, but if you want to shave cost you can spec standard Euro hinges and undermount drawer glides instead of the premium versions. For a 300 unit apartment project, those differences add up.
Order consistency matters as much as order size. A builder who orders the same spec every month for two years will get better pricing than one who orders different configurations every time, even at the same total volume. The factory schedules around predictability, and predictable orders cost less to produce.