Start working on the upper cabinets; uppers require the most care because they are at eye level, so everything needs to look really sharp including the interiors.
Make them 13.5 in deep instead of 12; to allow for both a 3 in spice rack on the doors and a 10 in pull out system. This is also what we estimated the max depth could be and allow us to be able to clearly see under them.
You needed to drill lots of little holes for the adjustable shelves (all the lowers will have pull-out shelves); do this on a drill press before with each hole marked.
Put together the template system and you will drill all the holes in a cabinet side in about 3 min; template is a piece of melamine covered pegboard with a plywood straight-edge attached to it.
Held the cabinets together with glue and nails - 1/4 crown staples that are 3/4 long to attach the boxes; 1 in long ones to connect the sides to the tops and bottoms.
You still need to attach the backs; use the same staples and poly glue to do this. Put 3 in wide ledgers in the tops of the backs, just to ensure you have solid structure for attaching them to the walls. Theses will go in with screws.
This need a bit of effort; but you will get custom cabinets for $2K instead of $12 to $15K - and you enjoy the work.
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