Hello, I hope I can be of some help, for my parents JUST finished replacing their entire kitchen (cabinets, appliances, countertops). At first, they shopped around with Home Depot & Lowes & local lumber companies. They had the kitchen designed by someone at Lowes. & in the beginning, it looked like they would be buying everything from Lowes. But after a few months, Lowes started to get very pushy & were basically forcing my parents to hurry up & buy everything right now. So my parents said to hell with Lowes & went to a local kitchen designer company. Which, ironically, the head woman of that company, used to work for Lowes & had trained the kitchen designer there, but she left because Lowes was very rude & forceful when it came to very large purchases ($20,000+). My parents looked at & liked Medallion cabinets. Which is what they bought in the end. They bought them through the local kitchen designer. A local lumberyard also had some great cabinets & a lot of local lumber yards will have sales & huge discounts on cabinets that are display pieces. So if you are looking to save money, that would be a place to shop. I guess my biggest piece of advice, DO NOT BUY FROM LOWES or other big retail chains. They will seem nice, but if enough time passes, the manager will tell the employee who is helping you, to hurry up & close the deal, since it is a lot of money. I don’t think retail chains understand that when people spend that kind of money, it takes a long time to make sure everything is perfect & you want to make sure that when you spend 20k in one shopping trip – it is exactly what you want. I hope I was able to help a little bit & I wish you the best in your kitchen designing.