This kitchen is a Jim Bishop "Jamestown" style. The customer took the upgraded Full Extension Glides. The color was a dark "Cordovan". and Cliffside Knob model $ 100-OA. As far as the counter goes we made for him a Low Splash style, in "Blackstar Granite".
Continuing with the three different grades of "Bishop Cabinets" framed cabinet line, I would like to talk about the "Value" cabinet box today. The following are the specs for the Deluxe cabinet box: • Drawer Boxes: Four sided(not counting drawer fronts) and are made of 7/16" thick MDF. Rabbet Joints are glued and pinned. Captive bottoms are 1/8" thick hard-bored. All interior surfaces are protected by easy-to-clean JB Barrier coat. • Hanging Rails: 3/4" thick solid wood for maximum structural integrity. • Drawer Guides: European-style side mount epoxy coated for nearly effortless open and close. • Face Frames: 3/4" thick solid wood, mortise and tenon joined construction. • Shelves: 3/4" thick furniture board. Surfaces are protected by easy-to-clean JB Barrier-Coat. Fully adjustable. • Tops and bottoms: are sturdy 1/2" thick furniture board. Interior surfaces are protected by easy-to-clean JB Barrier Coat. Bottoms are dadoed into face frames and ends. • Ends: are non-matching 1/2" thick furniture board. Interior surfaces Easy-to-clean JB Barrier Coat. • Concealed Hinges: 3 way adjustable to ensure correct alignment. • Toe Kicks: Rugged 3/4" thick furniture board.
Continuing with the three different grades of "Bishop Cabinets" framed cabinet line, I would like to talk about the "Standard" cabinet box today. The following are the specs for the Deluxe cabinet box: • Drawer Boxes: Four sided(not counting drawer fronts) and are made of 7/16" thick MDF. Rabbet Joints are glued and pinned. Captive bottoms are 1/8" thick hard-bored. All interior surfaces are protected by easy-to-clean JB Barrier coat. • Hanging Rails: 3/4" thick furniture board. • Drawer Guides: European-style side mount epoxy coated for nearly effortless open and close. • Face Frames: 3/4" thick solid wood, mortise and tenon joined construction. • Shelves: 3/4" thick furniture board. Surfaces are protected by easy-to-clean JB Barrier-Coat. Fully adjustable. • Tops and bottoms: are sturdy 1/2" thick furniture board. Interior surfaces are protected by easy-to-clean JB Barrier Coat. Bottoms are dadoed into face frames and ends. • Ends: are non-matching 1/2" thick furniture board. Interior surfaces Easy-to-clean JB Barrier Coat. • Concealed Hinges: 3 way adjustable to ensure correct alignment. • Toe Kicks: Rugged 3/4" thick furniture board.
"Bishop Cabinets" offers three different series of cabinet boxes in their framed line, "Deluxe", "Standard", "Value". In the next few days I would like to go through them all, one at a time. We`ll start with the highest quality box, and work our way down. The following are the specs for the Deluxe cabinet box: • Drawer Boxes: Four sided(not counting drawer fronts) 5/8" thick solid dove-tail construction. Captive bottom is 3/16" thick veneer core plywood. • Hanging Rails: 3/4" thick solid wood for Maximum structural integrity. • Drawer Guides: Concealed under mount type, epoxy coated for ultra smooth movement. • Face Frames: 3/4" thick solid wood, mortise and tenon joined construction. • Shelves: 3/4" thick veneer-core plywood. Surfaces are protected by easy to clean JB Barrier Coat. Fully adjustable. • Tops and bottoms: 1/2" thick veneer core plywood. Surfaces are protected by easy to clean JB Barrier Coat. Bottoms are dadoed into face frames and ends. • Ends: 1/2" thick veneer core plywood. Easy to clean JB Barrier Coat protects interior surfaces. • Concealed Hinges: 3 way adjustable to ensure correct alignment. • Toe Kicks: Heavy 3/4" thick veneer core plywood.
Continuing with the "Bishop Cabinets", below is an excerpt of the Bishop promise. The Bishop Family Promise Things happen. You forget a component. You add a corner unit. A box gets dinged in shipment. Order from Bishop, though, and one thing is certain: we’ll move with a purpose to make your order right. Call customer service and you’ll speak to a person, not a machine. When time is critical, we’ll walk your order through the system so that you have your cabinet in days, not weeks. Service, not excuses: it’s the Bishop family way.
Bishop Cabinets has been in business for over 45 years. During that time period we have grown at a modest rate by investing in technology and machinery that has raised the level of quality in our product. We are a debt-free company that through the years has prepared for bad economic conditions such as the one we are in at this time. We are committed to a quality product, environmental stewardship, and impeccable customer service. Give Bishop a try and see the difference.
With their new lines introduced, we at "Regal Kitchens" wish them nothing but continued success.
In the past we spoke about "Bishop Cabinets", they are a semi-custom framed cabinet line. Bishop cabinets makes a beautiful product as well as being a pleasure to deal with. At Regal Kitchens we absolutly love how they stand behind their product. We have been dealing with them almost as long as they have been around. From what I understand we were actually their 21st customer. Here I Quote from there newsletter written by Jim Sr. the President of the company: "As we look at what most cabinet companies are doing during these times, it seems that many have slowed or eliminated their advertising, and that most have really slowed down their R&D and new product releases. Even the ones who talk about continuing to progress seem to bring up things that they did a year ago. Since most companies are laden with debt, their decisions to slow down these aspects of their businesses make sense. But because we are debt free, our position is a bit different and we would do ourselves and our customers an injustice if we adopted the same mindset. We are investing in the future, and taking advantage of the time available to get more of the things we want to add to our line introduced than we could during busier times.
I've mentioned this before, but one of the benefits of reduced demand has been the reduction in production hours from frequent 60 hour weeks to 40 hour weeks. Since our staff was used to 10-hour days anyway, we changed our production to four 10-hour shifts. That has allowed us to use the free time to test and train. For example, the biggest single production day of full access cabinetry so far occurred this week. Most full access cabinets to this point had been assembled by the production managers, and they had started bringing in some of the production employees to watch what was going on. This week, they started letting some of those employees get "hands on", under their direct supervision. Instead of trying to train these employees in boom times, when they would have been trying to learn while tired from an already long work day, we are able to train them while they are fresh, and to pick and choose who will get trained when."
Basically they have been working for the past three years on expanding into framless, with foils, wood, metals, it`s just an amazing new line that I am fascinated by. Below I posted one of their video clips, of them introducing the new framless line. Hopefully next week I will talk more about them as A company and what they represent.
In the beginning of this blog we started going through some of the kitchen cabinet door styles we carry here at "Regal Kitchens", then we somehow got sidetracked to talk about everything else but Kitchen Cabinet door styles, now I will try to get back on course and go trough all the door styles we currently carry at "Regal Kitchens".
Today I would like to talk about "Sienna Rope" Which we happen to sell on our website as well, as "Swan Hill".
Below are the specs for "Sienna Rope":
• Species: Solid Maple • Style: Full Overlay Square Raised Panel • Front Frame: 3/4" Thick Solid Maple • Door Rail & Styles: 3/4" Thick Solid Maple • Door Center Panel: Solid Maple • Sides & Bottom: 1/2" Thick Full Back On Base Cabinets • Hinges: Concealed Adjustable Hinges • Connectors: Pre-Installed Won`t Tarnish Color Coated Metal Clip • Shelves: 3/4" Thick Wood Veneer • Drawer Box: 3/8" Thick, Solid Wood On All Sides and Bottom, Natural Finishes, Drawer is 21" Long • Drawer Glides: Full Extension Self Closing Dovetail Drawers • Finishes: Best Grade Italian Made Polyurethane Finish
I think from our previous posts(here, here, here, and here)I was able to give you a brief description of whats going on in the layout. Below is the actual proposal and layout(name and price taken out), that we supplied to the company. You will see it`s extremely straight forward with very little(if any) lee way for error. So to summarize it all. We measured the kitchen for the customer, sent him the above layout and proposal. We installed the kitchen, supplied and installed the customer with the following: 1)Jim Bishop Richmond Deluxe kitchen cabinets. 2)Cliffside Industries model number 100-SS silver satin cabinet knobs. 3)U-Line model # 2175RF “Stainless Steel” 24” under counter refrigerator. 4)Avanti model # DG201BS “Black with Stainless Steel” 20” stove. 5)GE model # JVM1750SS 30” wide ”Stainless Steel” over the range microwave. 6)Kohler model # K15160PC single lever pullout spray “Chrome” faucet. 7)Kohler model # K3330 14” X 15 ¾” single bowl stainless steel under mount sink. 8)Set of Plumbing parts. 9)Set of Gas Parts. The counter top was done by the owner, the customer ordered his own granite. I am trying to get hold of a picture of this kitchen completed, just to give you, instead of getting it through Regal Kitchens an idea of whats going on, I will post it as soon as I get my hands on it.
Another kitchen we just completed,where we used a door style of Jim Bishop`s is the "Richmond Deluxe". This kitchen we did on the East side of NYC. I attached the layout we used. Pretty small kitchen but that`s what goes in the NYC.
As I said in yesterday`s post I would go through some of the Jim Bishop cabinet door styles. as well as the layout that we used them with. Today I would like to start with A kitchen that Regal Kitchens just completed. The door style to the left which we used is called "Martinique", which is part of the "Jim Bishop Essentials" collection. The following is from "Jim Bishop`s" website explaining the difference in their collections. Essentials are Jim Bishop's fashion collection of time-honored door styles. Square or arched, in four beautiful hardwoods or laminate, and available in a near-endless variety of stains and finishes through our Formal Finishes and Smart Styles programs. Essentials help make selecting the perfect cabinets for your home a most rewarding experience. Design Elements is Jim Bishop's Custom Order program. We created it to satisfy the most discriminating of tastes --Yours! Choose from fine carpentry in traditional Miter, Mortise & Tenon or Slab construction, and a variety of raised or recessed panel styles. Also available: Rustic, the old American farm look that's the latest rage among designers. In this particular case we installed this kitchen on the "Upper West Side" of Manhattan. It was A "Framed all plywood box “Martinique Deluxe” cabinetry with square raised panel concealed hinge “Maple” full overlay doors in the “Natural Stain”, with A low splash "Luna Pearl" counter that A 180ยบ profile. Below is the layout of the kitchen.
"Jim Bishop Cabinets" is a very common vendor we use for a our Semi-Custom cabinets, they have a huge amount of door styles to choose from. We(Regal Kitchens) will have customers where they have to bring the rent up to market value, but with the MCI(Major Capital Improvment)laws in NYC you can only raise the rent(I believe)1/40 of what you put in. For example if a tenant is paying $800.00 in times square, the market value is alot more than that. so if the landlored puts in $25,000.00 into the building, 1/40 of that is $625.00, which brings us to a total of $ 1,425.00. Obviosley the landlord will be putting in much more than $25,000.00 in to the aprtment. Thats when I would introduce "Jim Bishop Cabinets" to my customer. We have actually done alot of them pretty recently. In the next few days I would like to introduce just some of the door styles we used as "Jim Bishop Cabinets" is a certified by the "Environmental Stewardship Program"
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