Schlabach Cabinetry has been building kitchens out of a shop behind the house on Bloomingport Road since 1987. Daniel Schlabach started out making furniture and moved into cabinets when a neighbor asked him to fit out a kitchen nobody else would measure properly. He still builds every job to the room rather than to a catalog of box sizes, which is why an out of square farmhouse wall does not trouble him.

The shop runs on hardwood: cherry, hickory, red and white oak, hard maple, and occasionally walnut when a customer brings their own logs. Doors are cope and stick or raised panel, drawer boxes are solid wood with hand cut dovetails at the front corners, and drawers ride on wooden runners or full extension steel slides depending on what the customer wants to pay for. Daniel will talk you out of a finish he does not trust rather than warranty it.

He works alone with one son helping through the winter, and he takes on roughly a dozen kitchens a year. That means a wait, and he will tell you the wait honestly before he takes a deposit. Measuring is done in person, twice, and the second visit happens after the drywall is up because a room is never the size the plans said it was.