Crystal Cabinet Works cabinets in New Jersey
Family-owned custom cabinetry from Minnesota since 1947 — Affordable Custom (Current, Current Inset, Frameless Current) and Premium Custom (Keyline, Encore) — 80 door styles, twelve species, forty paints and thirty stains; the top of our range with Plain & Fancy.
Every Crystal door, as Crystal photographs it
Click a door for its profile, construction and the finishes it comes in — and to see it in every colour.
Door photographs are Crystal's own catalogue pictures; colour previews recolour that photograph and are approximate on screen. Every finish is on a real sample door in our showrooms — bring a tile or paint chip and compare.
77 standard Crystal finishes
46 paints and 31 stains — click a swatch to see every door in that colour.
About Crystal
Crystal Cabinet Works has been a family-owned custom cabinet maker in Princeton, Minnesota since 1947, when Tom Hammer started it in his garage; today it is one of the largest custom cabinet manufacturers in the country and still sells only through independent dealers. Two tiers: Affordable Custom — Current (framed full overlay), Current Inset and Frameless Current — and Premium Custom — Keyline (framed) and Encore (frameless), with premium species such as walnut, rift-cut and quarter-sawn white oak and premium alder. Eighty door styles from shakers and slabs to arched raised panels and mullion doors, in alder, cherry, hickory, maple, red oak, white oak and walnut plus paint-grade material, MDF, engineered veneers, textured melamine and laminate slab programs; forty paints, thirty hand-applied stains, glazes, cerused, wire-brushed, rub-thru and distressed finishes with an oven-cured catalyzed conversion varnish top coat. Limited lifetime warranty. With Plain & Fancy, it is the highest price level we carry.
Why we carry it
Crystal gives us a second fully custom shop with a different look from Plain & Fancy — more contemporary doors, a broader species list, a frameless program and slab materials — at the same top price level, so a custom kitchen can be drawn around the room rather than the catalogue.
How it's built
- Two tiers: Affordable Custom (Current framed, Current Inset, Frameless Current) and Premium Custom (Keyline framed, Encore frameless). 'There are two main types of cabinet construction in the kitchen and bath industry and Crystal offers both.'
- Framed: '3/4" thick solid wood frame for stability, that is typically attached to the face of 1/2" boxwork'; two door-mount options: Full Overlay ('cabinet doors lay on top of the frame') and Inset ('cabinet doors mount flush inside the frame'). Frameless: 'so
- All lines: 'Dovetailed drawers are 5/8" solid hardwood sides, front and back, bottom is 1/4" veneered' with 'concealed, under mount, full extension guides with integral soft close'.
- Premium Custom boxes: natural maple veneer over NAF (No Added Formaldehyde) plywood; 3/4" NAF plywood shelves; Blum soft-close doors and drawers standard; Legrabox steel drawer option (Encore); walnut drawer upgrade; 'Built to order, allowing for premium modif
- Affordable Custom boxes: natural maple melamine interior over particle board; 3/4" particle board shelves; upgrade to NAF plywood with natural basswood veneer interior; Hettich soft-close drawers standard; soft-close door upgrade (Hettich on Current, Salice on
- Current Inset (2024 eblast PDF): Salice 105° soft-close 6-way adjustable frame-mounted hinges; 'No Bead Only' frame profile; mortise-and-tenon doors (OB or O3 profile options); 13" deep wall option at no charge.
Warranty & lead time
'Limited Lifetime Warranty' — covers 'defects in material and workmanship in your Crystal custom cabinetry under normal home use and service'; Crystal will 'replace or repair any part or parts which m Custom, built to order in Minnesota — Affordable Custom is quicker than Premium Custom; ask your designer for the current week count.
How the Crystal line is organized
Beyond the standard palette
Where Crystal sits among the lines we carry
Custom · our highest price level. Every estimate is itemized, so you can price the same layout in two lines and compare.
- Level IForevermark
- Level IFGM
- Level IJ&K
- Level I21st Century
- Level IWoodConcept
- Level IAdornus Essential
- Level IFabuwood Signature
- Level IIFabuwood Allure
- Level IIAdornus Designer
- Level IINOMA
- Level IIKith · Eudora
- Level IISt. Martin
- Level IIShiloh
- Level IIEclipse
- Level IIIShiloh inset
- Level IIIGreat Northern
- Level III+Plain & Fancy
- Level III+Crystal
Recent kitchens from our portfolio
Real New Jersey homes designed in our showrooms — each page lists the line, the door and the finishes.
Kitchens in the Crystal line
10 kitchens in the Crystal line — the doors, colours and proportions it is known for. Our own installed kitchens are above; the showroom displays are the real thing.
Crystal questions
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