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A potential customer called and was wanting some specific questions answered about cabinets. Apparently, she was buying a foreclosed home that was missing a bank of cabinets on the wall. It wasn’t a huge kitchen, but the base cabinets were there and the wall cabinets were gone. She wanted to know about getting exact matches for the missing cabinets.

The house was 5 years old and although there wasn’t a manufacturer’s label on the cabinets, they were certainly builder-grade. The customer was planning on renting out the property for the long term and had no plans to move into it. She was absolutely bent on getting an exact match. In order to do that you would have to get the right color, species of wood, style and finish. That’s the equivalent of a cabinet trifecta

I explained to her that although you probably couldn’t get an exact match of the base cabinets, you could certainly get them close enough that a prospective tenant wouldn’t notice. After all, there is a gap between the base cabinets and the wall cabinets.

If you are looking for a match, you can remove a cabinet door and take it with you. You can go to home centers and specialty cabinet suppliers who will be able to come very close to the existing cabinets.

As an alternative (albeit an expensive one), you could install wall cabinets and then reface the cabinets that don’t match.