What Are RTA Cabinets

If you’re a homeowner looking to do an affordable remodel, RTA cabinets are a great option to help keep costs lower than buying pre-assembled cabinets, which are just as high quality. In this guide, we’ll cover assembling cabinets and preparing them to help you decide what’s right for your budget, preference, and style.

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RTA kitchen cabinets are shipped to your job site in flat packs, including all the parts and supplies you need to assemble and install them in your kitchen. Wholesale cabinet manufacturers, such as CabinetCorp, manufacture RTA cabinets from high-quality all-plywood material for superior durability and longevity.

Before Buying RTA Kitchen Cabinets

There are 4 main factors to consider when you are purchasing an RTA cabinet for your client.

1) Quality. Quality is the most important part of the cabinet puzzle. Cabinets made from inferior materials cannot withstand rigorous daily use, and homeowners need to replace them faster than high-quality RTA cabinets.
2) Cabinet type. What do your clients want in their new kitchen? When you buy cabinets wholesale through an online cabinet maker, you’ll find better selection, consistency, and availability than at a big box home improvement store.
3) Cost. If the price of RTA cabinets is too high to be true, there is a reason: inferior materials. You can find wholesale RTA cabinets, made from high-quality materials, for $250 to $750 per cabinet. Because cabinet manufacturers save money on assembling and shipping RTA cabinets, they can offer high-quality RTA cabinets at better prices than low-quality assembled cabinets.
4.) Assembly. If you are purchasing an RTA cabinet for a client’s project, you will need to budget for time and labor for assembly and installation.

Benefits Of RTA Cabinets

High-Quality

Are RTA cabinets low quality? We often encounter this problem. Like any finish in your home, RTA cabinets can be high or low quality. Cheap particleboard styles from big box stores won’t last long, but styles from wholesale cabinet supplies will. That’s because our cabinets are made from top-quality materials with the best features, including:

All plywood boxes
Full coverage doors and drawers
Dovetail Drawer Box
Soft-close slide and hinge

Affordable

The average cost of a custom cabinet is about $500 to $1,200 per linear foot, while top RTA cabinets available from wholesale cabinets start at about $114 per linear foot. You save money because you will do some of the labor yourself. Despite what you may have heard, the low cost of RTA cabinets is not due to their poor quality. We’ll discuss this in more detail below.

Convenient

With RTA cabinets, you can shop around, which is a unique advantage because you’re not limited to suppliers or carpenters in your area. Browsing and ordering online makes the selection process easier and ensures you get what you want. The convenience factor is also enhanced as the RTA process is much faster from choosing your preferred style to delivering and installing the cabinet.

Beautiful

These days, adding designer cabinets to your kitchen or bathroom doesn’t require going to a high-end showroom or consulting the most expensive skilled carpenter in your area. In fact, RTA cabinets come in many coveted styles, with beautiful finishes and gorgeous details that make them look completely custom.

Intimidating

Most people have never put together or installed cabinets before, so the idea of doing it on your own can be extremely intimidating. But don’t stress! Luckily, RTA cabinets are meant to be user-friendly and installable, even by beginners with no special tools. Even if you hire a professional installer, which will run you around $1,000-$2,000, you’ll still come in far under the cost of custom cabinetry.

Variety

Our cabinets come in traditional and timeless whites and greys that perfectly match your countertops, appliances, floors and walls. For kitchens, we offer base, wall and tall cabinets in three different sizes to suit your individual design: for example, base cabinets are available in 09″-21″, 24″-30″, 33″-36″, and Two sizes of Lazy Susan corner base cabinets, one standard size blind base corner cabinet, two sizes of sink base cabinets, and five different sizes of drawer base cabinets. Be sure to browse our product pages to see what other options are available for other cabinet varieties. To see which one is best for your kitchen or bathroom remodel, you can submit a 3D kitchen design application online.

More work

Ultimately, the fact that you assemble these cabinets yourself will translate into extra work and time you spend. With a wide variety of options and huge cost savings, the extra effort might be worth your trouble. If you want to save all the time and hassle but still need to be mindful of your budget, opting for fully assembled cabinets is also a great, cost-effective option.

Conclusion

As you can see, going the “ready to assemble” route is a great option, but it may not be the right solution for everyone. For budget-friendly, high-quality options, consider the Premier Cabinet Collection and Designer Cabinet Collection from Wholesale Cabinet Supply. Both options are available off the shelf and fully assembled to meet your unique needs.