Kitchen Base Cabinets: Every Lower Type, Size and Price

Base cabinets are the lower run that carries your countertop: 34½" tall and 24" deep. They do most of the storage work in a kitchen, so the drawer-or-door choice matters more here than anywhere else. We sell base cabinets one box at a time or as a full set, from RTA through custom.

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Base cabinets start at $87 per box on our RTA and stock lines, and the type you pick decides what that box actually does. Open the door and look at the box. That's where the money is.

On our main lines the box is ½" plywood, the adjustable shelves are ¾" plywood, and the drawer boxes are ⅝" solid wood with dovetail joints. Hinges are soft-close and the glides are undermount, full-extension. One frameless slab line uses a ¾" engineered furniture board box instead, and we tell you which line is which.

Price per box by line

These are cabinets only. Assembly, installation, delivery and countertops are extra. RTA and stock boxes are $38 each to assemble, pre-assembled lines are $0, and our crew installs a box for $130 ($90 if it arrives assembled) within 100 miles of Alpharetta. Blind and lazy susan bases run $260 to install. See all of it on our pricing page.

A standard base cabinet is 34½" tall and 24" deep, so the box and a countertop on top land at normal working height.

Fillers close the odd gap between a box and a wall or an appliance. Our crew sets them at $50 each. Tight room? Our small kitchen page covers it.

Most people measure wall length and stop. They miss out-of-square walls and corners, ceiling height at several points, baseboards and window casings, and where the plumbing and outlets sit. A 1 to 2 inch error means rework or delay.

Our drawer bases on the main lines use ⅝" solid wood dovetail boxes on undermount, full-extension glides, so you reach every inch of the cabinet.

Hinges and glides get used every day, so they're what fails first in the cheap cabinets we replace. Check the hardware before you check the finish.

New base cabinets from $87 per box plus entry quartz from $49 per square foot installed is the shortest path to a refreshed kitchen. That price is for countertops installed within 100 miles of Alpharetta, and we don't paint or reface existing cabinets, so your uppers stay as they are.

Two-tone: new lowers, different uppers

Put a darker or warmer color on the base run and keep lighter uppers. In our kitchens white oak was the most common finish over the last year, about 7 of 10. In our white kitchen with a dark island in Johns Creek, the island is a dark painted shaker, deep enough for the cooktop plus seating on the back side, and the perimeter stays white. That was a full kitchen, not lowers only, but it shows how a dark base run plays against white. More on our two-tone page.

An island, bar or laundry run built from bases

About 8 of 10 of our kitchens include an island, and an island is just base cabinets with finished backs. In our white shaker kitchen with a quartzite island in Milton, the island is the same door in the same white as the perimeter, so the warmth comes from the countertop and the wood trim on the hood. Start at the island page.

A budget refresh

Replace the bases and the countertop, keep the uppers. See affordable cabinets and quartz countertops.

When does lowers only fail? When the old uppers are a style or color you can't match, or when the countertop has to go anyway and you're paying for a second job. Then price a full set.

Base cabinets are often one piece of a bigger kitchen remodel, and homeowners who start with lowers sometimes end up asking about the whole room. We do kitchen remodeling and kitchen renovation work, plus bathroom remodeling, for kitchen and bathroom projects alike. Short on budget? Start with the lowers.

We carry 205 door and color variants, and 122 of them are shaker. Pick the door styles first, then the color.

Styles: shaker (122), slab (35), raised panel (20), slim shaker (19) and inset (9). Only 13 are frameless, see frameless cabinets.

Colors: natural wood (51, from Cotton Oak to Honey Maple), white (41), gray (37), black (23, Tricorn Black among them), blue (17, including In The Navy) and green (17, with Clary Sage). Woods have their own pages: white oak, walnut and maple. A custom paint color is available on the semi-custom line. For custom cabinets and custom cabinetry beyond the catalog, start at our custom page.

Slab doors read modern. Browse the finishes in our gallery of finished projects. The same door and finish choices apply across our main lines, so see all kitchen cabinets. For context, in the NKBA 2026 Kitchen Trends survey slab doors came in at 69% of respondents (634 surveyed).

Our free 3D design stays valid for 10 days, and delivery usually lands about 10 days after shipment.

1. Send photos of the kitchen from all sides, the ceiling height, wall lengths, and where the windows, plumbing, fridge and gas or range sit. Within 100 miles of Alpharetta we can measure it ourselves.
2. We send a free 3D design you open on your phone. Change anything by one message. Usually at most one revision round.
3. We finish the design with all dimensions and you confirm it. We then send a payment link with the spec, and you re-check and sign. Only then does it go into production, quoted per project. After payment there's no cancellation, return or exchange, because cabinets are made per project.
4. Our crew installs within 100 miles of Alpharetta, about 3 to 5 working days for a standard 10x10 kitchen. Everywhere else in Georgia we deliver: $300 curbside or $450 to the garage or driveway up to 50 miles, quoted per order beyond that.

Someone must be there to receive and help unload, and we don't carry boxes inside the home. Delivery insurance is an optional paid add-on, quoted with the order. Prime Cabinet Store, 4700 Atlanta Hwy, Alpharetta, GA 30004, (470) 460-6180. Hours: Monday to Sunday, 9 AM to 6 PM. See Georgia delivery and installation.

Our free 3D design needs photos of the kitchen from all sides, the ceiling height, wall lengths, and where the windows, plumbing, fridge and gas or range sit.

Want to talk it through? Bring your layout, or send photos, and the kitchen design starts from there. Visit the showroom in Alpharetta, or start with a free 3D design, and see free design for how it works. Every customer gets a dedicated personal manager. Whatever your dream kitchen looks like, we draw it as free 3D designs you open on a phone. One 2026 kitchen was designed in Alpharetta and delivered to Phoenix. We're at 4.8 on Google from 103 reviews. Prices for cabinets and countertops are on our pricing page. Or send us a message.

A free design consultation at the showroom in Alpharetta starts the same way: photos from all sides, ceiling height and wall lengths, and the 3D design is free.