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The Factory · 61 Fifth Street, Somerville

How a Choice cabinet is made.

One job at a time, from the order desk to the truck. Every panel, door and box on your project passes through the same 75,000 sq ft building.

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01 — Order & engineering

Engineered before a sheet is loaded.

Every order starts in Order Processing. Each cabinet on the schedule is broken into parts, cut lists and CNC programs first.

Cut listsCNC programsUnit-by-unit labels
The HOMAG CNC machining center that runs every Choice cut program
02 — Panel cutting

Cut, stacked, labeled by unit.

Full sheets of ¾" melamine are cut to size on the beam saw and labeled by job, unit and cabinet, so nothing mixes between buildings.

The Biesse Selco beam saw on the production floor
Panel on the conveyor of the CNC machining center
03 — CNC machining

Every hole has a job.

Each side is bored and grooved on the CNC: dowel holes on 96 mm centers, 32 mm shelf-pin rows, hinge-plate holes and the full-height groove the back slides into.

See it in the 3D build spec →
04 — Edgebanding

Sealed on every edge.

Exposed edges are sealed in PVC: thin white on box parts, 1 mm matched to the face on doors and drawer fronts.

Edgebander applying PVC edge to a cabinet panel
05 — Doors & drawer fronts

Solid maple, milled here.

Stiles and rails are milled, assembled into frames and bored for the hinge cup. Slab fronts come off the CNC ready for edging.

Stacked maple stock for door frames
Maple stock, milled to length
Assembled door frames
Frames assembled
Boring a door for the hinge cup
Bored for the 35 mm hinge cup
06 — Finishing

Seven steps. All in-house.

Wood doors and drawer fronts go through our furniture finishing process on the Venjakob spray line, sprayed and cured in Somerville.

  1. i.Machine and hand sanded, then vacuumed to remove all dust.
  2. ii.Balancing stain evens the base color of the wood.
  3. iii.Deep-penetrating stain is hand-sprayed and hand-rubbed into the grain.
  4. iv.Air-dried, with glazing or distressing for specialty finishes.
  5. v.Sealer applied under pressure, then oven-cured.
  6. vi.Hand-sanded again for a smooth, consistent surface.
  7. vii.Oven-baked topcoat that holds color and stands up to daily wear.
Hand sanding a door before finishing
Venjakob spray line with twin spray arms
Finished doors on the drying rack
Cabinet box assembly station
Staff assembling cabinet boxes on the line
07 — Assembly

Glued, dowelled, square.

The back slides into its groove and finished doors meet their cabinets. Hinges, drawer boxes and slides go on here.

Glued & dowelledSalice hingesIntegra drawers
08 — Inspect, pack & ship

Checked by us. Delivered by us.

A Choice inspector checks every cabinet at the end of the line. Orders are boxed, staged by unit and loaded onto our own trucks.

Packed cabinets at the shipping station
Boxed orders staged in the warehouse
4 weeksstandard, from release to delivery
Build Spec

Take the cabinet apart.

Explode a B24 base in 3D. It's built from the same dimensions our CNC programs cut — every dowel, groove, hinge and slide.

Open the 3D build spec →
Fitting a wood-grain finished end panel to a cabinet