StarMark

StarMark sits at the top of our floor for two reasons: the cabinets are built one at a time by hand in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and the construction is true inset on every door style they make. Inset means the door sits flush inside the face frame with a 1/16" reveal all the way around. It is the most labor-intensive way to build a cabinet, and on a properly leveled job it reads as furniture rather than millwork.

The catalog is seventy-plus door styles across seven hardwood species — Alder, Cherry, Hickory, Maple, Quartersawn White Oak, Red Oak, Walnut. Every cabinet is sized to 1/16" increments, which removes the filler-strip problem on out-of-square walls common in older New England homes. The finish program — Color Couture — matches any Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams color on request, which is what gets specified when a client has an existing trim color they want the cabinets to read against.

StarMark is the cabinet for the project where the client says some version of "this is the last kitchen I am buying." It is also the longest-lead brand we carry. Plan for ten weeks if the project includes inset work.