Semihandmade

I am so happy I found out about semi handmade when doing my home renovations. It was worth the extra investment for the custom kitchen look. With the custom doors and the IKEA cabinets it was still significantly less than a Home Depot kitchen. You know the phrase measure twice cut once, the same holds true with ordering your doors. IKEA helped us design our kitchen and they messed up leaving us to have to reorder some doors from Semihandmade. I would recommend you splurge on the design services they list on their site. Semihandmade did accidentally give us the wrong size drawers for one section so triple check their order! They were right on schedule with their production time of 5 weeks. We rented a uHaul to pick the items up. Check your pieces as some of them are really long. They recommend blankets but they do a pretty good job wrapping them. I took off a star for their error and the local pickup fee. I don’t understand why I am being charged to pick something up. I ordered the DIY shaker. Painting was intense so make sure you are up for the project if you are doing it yourself. They offer discounts from time to time so check their Facebook page.

My wife Atee heard about Semihandmade at work. We had just purchased our first house and after hearing the crazy kitchen reno cost from various companies, we decided to go with IKEA.
If you have any experience with IKEA purchases, you know that it can be an overwhelming process, given the fact that we were gonna do an entire kitchen wasn’t helping, I was very skeptical and to simplify the process wanted to go with IKEA for everything. However, my wife was very adamant about the look of the Shaker style cabinets, and the fact that we could custom paint the doors to represent our style. After an email to Semihandmade, Jonathan explained the entire process and answered every every email & phone calls very patiently. We love our yellow kitchen, we couldn’t be happier with the result. These guys are awesome.

My wife and I came across Semihandmade while doing a kitchen remodel. After taking the drive from orange county to Burbank and meeting with Jacky we knew they were the company we wanted to work with. Jacky was very helpful with explaining the whole process start to finish. She was also very accommodating with changes that we had along the way. We had to increase our budget a bit but it was absolutely worth every penny. Our kitchen is now finished and we’re extremely happy! Now we’re starting on the bathrooms and plan to use Semihandamde again!

Unprofessional and poor communicators. Completely disappointed in their lack of professionalism. Fickle company management changed terms when it suits their needs. Complete waste of time. Glad to see that there are many other companies that will go the extra mile unlike this small mom and pop shop.

We live in Connecticut and thus all of our interactions with Semihandmade were via phone and email. Customer service was great. I talked with Veronica, oh probably 1,000 times asking many questions, tweaking our order and getting things delivered and installed. She was polite and did a great job working with us. In fact, I called so many times that Veronica began to recognize my number and answer the phone with «hi Jim!»
When things arrived, they were labeled and packed amazingly well and not a single thing was damaged. I was super impressed with all the little details spent in shipping. This was important because these things aren’t cheap. And if anything needs to be sent back, it takes awhile. So getting things right the first time is super important. And this is exactly what happened.
Quality of doors and panels is high. We got the flatsawn walnut with horizontal grain and the sequenced doors/​panels look amazing.
Sure, it’s not cheap. But for us, using Ikea base cabinets allowed us to splurge with Semihandmade doors to get a custom look that we could never have afforded.
We wound up paying someone to install the panels because they needed scribing to the walls and leveling with the floors. This was $$ well spent because the installer did things right didn’t screw up (unlike me!) But other than that, we did all the work.
Semihandmade isn’t cheap. But you get a custom look for less. At the end of the day we’re super, super happy.

I was really excited about using Semi Handmade Doors with Ikea cabinets for my kitchen remodel. It felt like an ideal solution. But two things: 1) after buying the custom doors, Ikea, and paying someone to assemble and install, it was comparable in price to higher quality, customizable cabinets. It may add up to be less $$ in a smaller kitchen, but I was surprised at what the bottom line rolled up to be. 2) I had a incident with the owner and was disappointed in what an a$$^hole he was and how he handled it. He was a hothead and fired a totally disrespectful email off to me without even inquiring to what had happened. After that, I just could not in good faith spend a lot of $ with him. Ordering cabinet doors from a far is tricky and how he handled that situation did not give me confidence in how a problem might be resolved if there was one, or more. Bottom line, I would NOT go with Semi-​Handmade Doors.

Such a nice show room and the designers are really warm and helpful. IKEA can be cookie-​cutter at times, but this place let’s you put a personal touch to your home.