Kitchen Island Cabinets: Base Cabinets, End Panels and Prices

About 8 of 10 kitchens we build include an island. We build island cabinets in lines from RTA through custom. Open the door and look at the box: on our main lines it's ½" plywood.

Our island cabinets start at $87 per base cabinet on the RTA and stock lines, cabinets only, with assembly, installation and delivery extra.

An island isn't a special cabinet. It's a run of base cabinets that carry the storage, finished on the sides the room can see, with a countertop on top. The box matters here as much as anywhere. On our main lines it's ½" plywood, and drawers are ⅝" solid wood dovetail boxes on undermount full-extension glides.

Here's what a base cabinet costs by line, cabinets only. The 30" base (two doors, one drawer) is our reference box.

Custom cabinets start from about $150 per cabinet, and we don't quote semi-custom or custom per linear foot because cabinets differ too much. For context, HomeAdvisor puts national cabinet cost at $100 to $1,200 per linear foot.

Customers sometimes ask for an MDF box to save money. On kitchens we've installed and serviced, MDF boxes swell at the sink base and under the dishwasher. A plywood box usually comes out 10 to 15% more, and we recommend it anyway, especially if your island has a sink.

Four inputs set your island size: photos from all sides, ceiling height, wall lengths, and where windows, plumbing, fridge and gas sit.

Send those and our designers turn them into free 3D designs of your room, island included. The numbers below depend on the room and the people using it, and each one is set in your design with dimensions, which you confirm before the payment link.

The measuring mistake we see most is taking wall length only. People miss out-of-square walls, ceiling height at several points, baseboards and casings, and plumbing and vent positions. A 1 to 2 inch error means rework or delay. Within 100 miles of Alpharetta we'll measure the room ourselves.

Every side of the island that faces the room needs a finished panel. Our crew installs an island panel for $60, labor only, and a cabinet box for $130 ($90 if it arrives ready-assembled). The panel itself:

The IRC calls for 30 inches between a cooktop and unprotected combustibles above it, or 24 inches with listed protection or per the appliance instructions.

Over an island, the hood sets that clearance. Your appliance manual and your inspector have the final word.

Our Johns Creek kitchen, finished in April 2026, shows how it works. The cooktop and the hood moved to the island, so the perimeter stays quiet: white shaker uppers and bases, white quartz, no range wall. The island is a dark painted shaker, deep enough for the cooktop plus seating on the back side. Before the 3D was signed we checked the clearance from the cooktop to the island hood, which the range manual sets, and the gas line, which has to come up through the floor when a cooktop moves to an island. See the Johns Creek project.

Our crew installs a hood for $200, labor only. Our drawers are solid wood dovetail boxes with undermount full-extension glides and soft-close hinges. Pulls and knobs are $200 per project to install, and our hardware page shows what we carry.

About 8 of 10 of our kitchens include an island. Here are three ways homeowners put an island together with the rest of the kitchen.

Countertops change the math. Quartz installed runs $49 to $72 per square foot, and natural stone (granite, quartzite) $47 to $148, installed within 100 miles of Alpharetta.

Now the honest part. Island-only doesn't work when your existing cabinets are a door style or color we can't match. We don't paint or reface, so a new island either matches one of our finishes or contrasts on purpose. And the cabinets are one piece of the job and the budget: outlets, plumbing and flooring around the island still need a plan. See our two-tone kitchen cabinets for contrast ideas.

Our catalog holds 205 door and color variants across five door styles, and most islands we draw start from one of these.

White oak was the most common finish in our kitchens over the last year, about 7 of 10. Painted lines use solid wood or HDF stiles and rails with an MDF center panel, and stained lines use solid wood frames. We tell you which part is which. Our frameless slab line is the one for a modern kitchen, with a ¾" engineered furniture board box and lacquered MDF-core slab doors. For context, in NKBA's 2026 Kitchen Trends survey of 634 respondents, 69% picked slab doors.

Every island order follows the same path: free 3D design, your confirmation, a payment link, your re-check and signature, then production.

1. Send photos and measurements, or book a measure if you're within 100 miles of Alpharetta.
2. Open your free 3D design with all dimensions on your phone and ask for changes by one message. It stays valid for 10 days, and one revision round is usual.
3. Confirm the design.
4. Use the payment link, which carries the spec. Re-check every dimension and spec, and sign.
5. Your order goes into production. Lead time is quoted per project.

Cabinets are made per project, so there's no cancellation, return or exchange after sign-off and payment. That is why you re-check the design before you sign. A dedicated personal manager stays with every customer.

Delivery is usually within about 10 days of shipment, and we warn you in advance of any change. Curbside delivery up to 50 miles is $300, driveway or garage $450, and anything farther is quoted per order. Our own crew installs within 100 miles of Alpharetta. Elsewhere we help you find an installer.

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Prime Cabinet Store, 4700 Atlanta Hwy, Alpharetta, GA 30004, (470) 460-6180. Showroom on Hwy 9, Monday to Sunday, hours Monday to Sunday, 9 AM to 6 PM. Come visit and see full kitchen displays.

Send us your island length, sink width if you want a sink, cooktop width, dishwasher yes or no, drawer preference, door style, color and ZIP code, and our designers start your free 3D design of the layout.

You get a free design and a straight answer on prices. Ask for changes by one message.

The same team handles kitchen and bathroom projects beyond the island, including kitchen remodeling, from kitchen design to cabinets and countertops, plus bathroom vanities and bathroom remodeling. If you're planning a kitchen remodel, a kitchen renovation or a dream kitchen with an island at the center, start here.

Browse finished islands in the project gallery, see our recent projects on the same page, or contact us to start.

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.