Cabinet Store · 3227 NY-22 · Patterson, New York
How Long Does a New Kitchen Take?
About two weeks from order to delivery — and that is only one part of the timeline. Here is the whole thing, honestly.
The answer first.
About two weeks, from the day you order to the day we deliver.
Much of the custom cabinetry industry runs six to twelve weeks, so this is the part of the process that usually surprises people in a good way. We say “about two weeks” rather than a specific day, because a lead time printed on fifty pages and then missed just generates angry calls — and we would rather be honest up front than precise and wrong.
The whole timeline, honestly.
Two weeks is only one part of it. A kitchen is a sequence, and the cabinets sit in the middle of it. Here is the sequence, step by step.
- 1
Looking and choosing
Days to weeks, and entirely up to you. This is the part where you walk in, open doors, and decide what you actually like. Some people pick a door in ten minutes. Some people come back three times. Neither is wrong, and neither is on our clock.
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The measurement visit
By appointment, and usually quick. Someone comes to your house and measures the room — walls, windows, doors, soffits, where the plumbing and the range are. It is a measurement, not a construction service.
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Finalising the layout and the order
We turn the measurement into a layout and a price. You confirm the door style, the finish, and the storage, and we place the order. This is when the clock starts.
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About two weeks in production and transitOur part
This is our part. From the day you order to the day we deliver is about two weeks. Custom cabinetry commonly runs six to twelve weeks in this industry, so this is the part that usually surprises people in a good way.
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Delivery dayOur part
We bring the cabinets to your driveway or garage, anywhere within 25 miles of the showroom. They come boxed. Open and check them on the day they arrive, not the morning your installer shows up.
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Installation
Not ours. This step is your installer, on your installer’s schedule. We cannot promise a timeline for it, because it is not our work and not our contract. The two-week lead time is the cabinets, not the whole project.
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Countertops
Templated after the cabinets are set, by whoever you use for the countertop, and it typically adds time after the cabinets are in. The counters cannot be templated until the cabinets are in place, so this step naturally follows the setting, not the delivery.
The point of laying it all out: “two weeks” is the cabinet lead time, not the total length of a kitchen project. Being straight about that is the point of this section.How to hire your own installer →
What actually causes delay.
When a kitchen runs long, it is usually not the cabinets. It is the steps around them.
- Decisions that change after the order is placed. A different door, a different finish, a moved appliance — any of it can reset the clock, and it is the most common self-inflicted delay.
- A measurement taken before the old kitchen comes out, when there turns out to be something behind the wall — a vent, a pipe, a chimney breast — that changes the layout.
- Countertop templating that cannot start until the cabinets are set. The counters wait on the setting, and the setting waits on the installer’s schedule.
- An installer booked too late. If the cabinets land and no one is lined up to set them, the kitchen sits in boxes and the calendar stalls.
How to not be the reason it takes longer.
- Pick the door style before the measurement. Changing it after means remeasuring, and sometimes reordering.
- Have somewhere dry and indoors to store the boxed cabinets. A garage works; a tarp on the lawn does not.
- Book your installer before the cabinets land, not after. The lead time on a good installer is often longer than the lead time on the cabinets.
- Open and check the boxes on delivery day. A missing or damaged part found that day gets sorted fast; found the morning the installer arrives, it costs you the day.
Questions people ask.
Walk in during business hours. No appointment needed.