Commercial casework and millwork · Owensboro, KY
Commercial cabinetry and custom millwork in Owensboro, Kentucky
Back-bars for the downtown bourbon bars, casework for the offices and clinics along Frederica Street, reception desks, break rooms, church and school work. Built in a Daviess County shop to your drawing, finished in a booth, and priced in writing before the first sheet is cut.
The short answer
What does commercial cabinetry cost in Owensboro?
Commercial casework and millwork in Daviess County runs $300 - $900 per linear foot, and that range is wide on purpose. A run of laminate break-room cabinets sits at the bottom of it. A cherry back-bar with lit shelving, a bottle step and refrigeration cutouts sits at the top. Reception desks, host stands and display pieces are quoted as pieces, off the drawing, because a linear foot of a curved desk front is not a linear foot of anything else.
Every commercial job starts with a shop drawing, $0 - $500, credited to the job by most of the cabinetmakers this site connects you with. The drawing is where the equipment, the outlets, the sinks and the code clearances get settled, and it is the document the estimate is written against. Change the drawing and the number changes on paper, not on install day.
- Casework and millwork: $300 - $900 per linear foot, to the drawing
- Shop drawings: $0 - $500, credited to the job
- Small pieces on their own carry the $1,500 minimum
The jobs downtown and up Frederica
Bars, restaurants, offices, clinics, churches and schools
Bar back-bars and restaurant casework
Downtown Owensboro has been filling in with bourbon bars, breweries and restaurants along the riverfront and Second Street, and the back-bar is the piece every one of them is photographed against. Tall display cabinetry with open shelving and integrated lighting, a bottle step, cutouts for the reach-in coolers and the glass washer, a sink base, and a bar top in a hardwood that takes a spilled drink. Host stands, server stations, wait-station cabinets and a wine wall come from the same drawing.
Medical and office casework
Exam rooms, nurse stations, lab counters, break rooms, reception desks and file walls for the offices and clinics along Frederica Street and the medical corridor. Plastic laminate over plywood for cleanability, solid-surface tops, and drawings that put the sink, the sharps container and the outlets where the practice wants them. Laminate work is the bottom of the price range, and there is nothing wrong with that for a room that gets wiped down every day.
Churches, schools and public rooms
Sacristy cabinets, choir robe storage, fellowship hall kitchens, classroom cubbies and library shelving. This work is usually plywood with a clear or painted finish, built heavy because it gets used by a lot of people who do not own it, and scheduled around a calendar that does not move.
Retail and display
Sales counters, display cases with glass and lighting, slatwall and shelving for the shops along Frederica and in the downtown storefronts. Display work prices as pieces. A shop can build the counter to match a back-bar or a reception desk so the room reads as one job.
How a commercial job runs
From drawing to install, around your other trades
A commercial cabinet job is a scheduling job as much as a building job. The cabinetry goes in after drywall and paint and before counters, plumbing trim and equipment, so the shop has to hold a date against your electrician, your plumber and your opening. The cabinetmakers this site connects you with work from an approved drawing, build and finish in the shop while the other trades are in the building, and install in a window you agree on in writing. A restaurant can often be phased: the bar first, the dining room and kitchen casework after.
- Site measure and a shop drawing with every cutout, outlet and clearance marked.
- A written estimate against that drawing, by the linear foot and by the piece.
- Build and finish in the shop while the room is being framed and painted.
- Install in the agreed window, ahead of counters and equipment.
Ask any bid whether the number was written against a drawing. If it was written against a phone call, it will change.
What the drawing has to know
The refrigeration model and its ventilation, the sink and its trap, the point-of-sale hardware and where its cables run, the ADA counter height if the public uses it, the fire rating the inspector expects behind a bar, and the lighting inside the shelves. None of that is the cabinetmaker's decision, and all of it has to be on the drawing before the estimate means anything. Bring the equipment spec sheets to the measure.
Residential work from the same shops, including the kitchens and built-ins that a lot of restaurant owners end up asking about, is written up on the kitchen page and the built-ins page; the linear-foot math for both is on the cost page.
Send the floor plan and the equipment list. The range comes back in writing.
A sketch of the room, the linear feet of run, and what is going in the cabinets. That is enough for a range before the drawing is started.
Asked by Owensboro business owners
Commercial cabinetry questions, answered plainly
How much does commercial cabinetry cost in Owensboro?
Commercial casework and millwork in Daviess County runs $300 - $900 per linear foot, priced to the drawing rather than from a table, because a back-bar with lit shelving and a break-room run of laminate cabinets are not the same job. Reception desks, host stands and display pieces are quoted as pieces. Shop drawings run $0 - $500 and are credited to the job by most shops.
What is the difference between casework and millwork?
Casework is the boxes: cabinets, drawers, shelving units, anything built as a case and hung or set in place. Millwork is the rest of the shaped wood in a room, from the bar rail and the wainscot to the trim, the paneling and the reception desk front. Most commercial jobs in Owensboro are a mix, and a shop that does both means one drawing, one finish and one install.
Can a cabinet shop build a bar back-bar?
That is the job a lot of shops like best. A back-bar is tall cabinetry with open display shelving, integrated lighting, a bottle step, refrigeration cutouts, a sink base and a bar top, all built to a drawing that accounts for the equipment going in. Downtown Owensboro has added a lot of bourbon bars and restaurants, and the back-bar is the piece the room is remembered by.
Do you do medical and office casework?
The cabinetmakers this site connects you with do exam-room casework, nurse stations, break rooms, file walls and reception desks for the offices along Frederica Street and the medical corridor. The material choice is usually plastic laminate over plywood for cleanability, with a solid-surface top, and the drawings have to account for the sinks, the outlets and the chart storage before anything is cut.
How long does a commercial cabinet job take?
Six to twelve weeks from approved drawings to install for most jobs, with the install scheduled around your other trades, since the cabinetry goes in after the drywall and paint and before the counters and plumbing trim. A shop can often phase a restaurant so the bar is in before the dining room casework, if the opening date needs it.
Written estimates, by the linear foot
Say what the business is, how many feet of run, and when it has to open.
A bar, a clinic, an office, a church kitchen. Roughly how much cabinetry, whether there is a drawing yet, and the date the room has to be ready. The estimate arrives written against the drawing, by the linear foot and by the piece. Prefer to talk? Call (270) 713-5984.
- Itemized on paper - boxes, doors, finish, hardware, install
- Measured against your walls, not a catalog size chart
- Built in a Daviess County shop by the cabinetmaker you meet