D3 Custom Cabinets

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04/27/2026

Meet Francis Conway, Design Director at D3.
His job is to make sure your vision actually survives the manufacturing process.

Layout issues. Structural questions. Custom elements that don’t fit neatly into a catalog. Material decisions that affect the final result. Francis is the person designers call when they hit a wall, and the person who makes sure they don’t hit one in the first place.

Think of him as your design partner inside the factory.
First in our series introducing the people of D3. Because knowing who you’re working with matters.

04/23/2026

Part 2 of the D3 factory tour.
This is where everything comes together.
Edgebanding. Sorting. Assembly. Case clamping. Manual sanding on downdraft tables. A sanding robot that handles the big panels with more consistency than any hand could at volume. The Holzer paint system. The drying room. Final drawer insertion. Wrapping. Shipping.
Every station between the raw panel and the cabinet arriving on your job site, this is what it looks like.
Part 2 of the D3 factory tour. Follow along for the full series. 🏭

04/20/2026

Parts come off our CNC machines in random order whatever sequence gets the best material yield from the sheet.

So how do they end up organised by cabinet, ready for assembly? This is our sorting rack. Sam scans a barcode, the rack lights up and tells him exactly where the part goes. No label reading, no cross-referencing, no communication breakdowns.

On the assembly side, the rack turns green when a cabinet has all its parts and is ready to build.
Sam said it best, is a customer really happy paying for someone to read a label and sort a part? Probably not.
So we built a system that handles it instead.

04/14/2026

Ever wondered what actually goes into building a custom cabinet, before a single door gets hung?
JP, our Head of Operations, walks you through the D3 factory floor in this series, starting where everything begins.

Raw materials coming in through the back of shop, loaded onto the racks until they’re ready to cut. Two CNC cells running different parts of the process, the Omnitech handling colour panels, doors and drawer fronts, feeding directly into our SCM Stephanie edgebander. And the Homag, our fully automated CNC that labels, loads, cuts and outputs panels through the line.

This is the infrastructure behind every cabinet that leaves our floor. Most people see the finished kitchen. This is what happens long before that.
Part 1 of the D3 factory tour. More coming.

Every department in this factory is a checkpoint.Not just a step in the process. A checkpoint.The sanding table isn’t th...
04/11/2026

Every department in this factory is a checkpoint.
Not just a step in the process. A checkpoint.
The sanding table isn’t there to move panels forward. It’s there because the finish that ends up in your client’s home starts with a surface that’s been prepared properly before anything else touches it.

The paint booth is where someone looks at every panel under the right light and decides if it’s ready or if it goes back.

Assembly is where someone notices if something isn’t sitting right and stops to fix it before it becomes a problem on site. And packing is the last set of hands on your cabinets before your installer opens them. The people doing it know that. What you’re seeing in these photos is what accountability looks like on a factory floor. Not a policy. Just people at every stage who understand that what leaves here has a real project on the other end of it.

04/06/2026

Most drawer problems don’t show up on install day.
They show up two years later, sagging bottoms, fronts out of alignment, sides wearing against the runners.
Here’s how we build at D3 to make sure that doesn’t happen.

5/8 plywood box. Full thickness bottom so it never sags. Dowel construction to keep the box perfectly square and eliminate any bow in the sides. Edge banding on the bottom so there’s no exposed plywood edge anywhere, even where you’d never think to look.

Blum runners. 40kg capacity. Four way adjustable.
Drawer fronts pre-installed and pre-aligned with CNC drilled dowels before it leaves our floor, so your installer isn’t fighting alignment on site.

The details that protect your reputation long after the install is done.

04/01/2026

The cabinets get all the attention.
But the panels, shelves, and accessories? That’s where most of the site headaches actually come from.
Every panel individually checked and cleaned. Shelves grouped by cabinet and wrapped. Painted and stained components get a full foam wrap so nothing scrapes in transit. Everything palletized and wrapped before it moves.
The small stuff handled properly so your install goes smoothly. 📦

03/30/2026

This is what an ordinary Tuesday looks like on our floor.
No special occasion. Every cabinet that arrives on your job site started here. Not with a machine. With a person who decided that good enough wasn’t good enough. Just the work being done the way it always gets done.
Every person you see here understands something simple, what they do today shows up on your job site tomorrow. So the standard never moves. That’s what you’re getting when you work with D3. 🏭

03/26/2026

A damaged cabinet doesn’t just cost money.
It costs the timeline. It costs the relationship.
So before anything leaves our floor, every surface is wrapped in foam, every edge capped with heavy-duty corners, every skid wrapped with our industrial pallet wrapper. Fully assembled. Fully protected.
Sam walks you through exactly what that looks like in this video.
Because what shows up on site tells your client everything about who you work with. 📦

03/22/2026

A contractor asked us a simple question:

“What hinges do you guys use?”

It sounds like a small detail but It’s not.

Most people don’t think about hinges when they’re choosing cabinets. But they’re the part you use every single day.

Open. Close. Repeat.

And over time, that’s where the difference shows up.

We stick with Blum hinges, not just because they’re “industry standard,” but because they hold up. Integrated soft close. Minimal play. Doors stay aligned.

More importantly, we use the inserta style hinge.

No loose screws slowly giving up over time.
No sagging doors a year or two in.

Just a solid connection that does its job… quietly.

It’s one of those things you don’t notice when it’s done right.

But you definitely notice when it’s not.

When you’re ordering cabinets, ask about the hinges.

The answer will tell you a lot.

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03/17/2026

This one was a fun one.

Daryl, our Sales Manager, stopped by to see a finished project in person, and instead of just filming the kitchen, we walked through it with the homeowner and talked about the decisions behind it.

From layout choices to materials to the little details you don’t always notice at first glance… this is the kind of stuff that makes a kitchen actually work in real life.

No showroom setup. No staging. Just a real home, a real project, and an honest walkthrough.

If you’re planning a kitchen or working with clients, this is the part most people don’t get to see.

If you have questions about your own project, feel free to reach out or stop by our showroom.

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03/11/2026

Not every kitchen fits inside a catalog.

This one definitely didn’t.

Aaron and the team at were building something highly custom, a reeded tambour walnut kitchen with awkward angles, tricky cuts, and a lot of detail that had to line up perfectly.

Not your typical shaker cabinet job.

Projects like this take a lot of back and forth. Measurements get revisited. Details get refined. And sometimes there are hiccups along the way.

What matters is how the team on the other side responds.

For Aaron, the big difference was reliability. Being able to call, get an answer, and keep the project moving.

Because when you’re building something custom, the end result only works if everyone keeps pushing toward the same finish line.

And when it all comes together…

Yeah, it looks pretty incredible.
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