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Building and
installing quality
cabinets in Sanders County: Montana (MT): Thompson Falls, Plains,
Trout Creek, Dixon, Noxon, Herron and Hot Springs;
Lake County: Montana (MT): Kalispell and Polson;
Bonner County,
Idaho: Sandpoint, Clark Fork, Hope, East Hope and Ponderay
FINE QUALITY CUSTOM
CABINETRY
AND MODULAR CABINETS
Yoder's Quality Kitchens
is committed to being
"Your source for cabinets in the
Clark Fork Valley and surrounding areas." We specialize in custom
kitchen and bath cabinets. We also offer an economical line of
quality factory made modular cabinets by
Great Northern Cabinetry,
Inc.

A Satisfied
Customer is a #1 Priority
We are a small shop with a trained eye on
quality control. We take pride in both our workmanship and
assuring you, the customer, are happy with the completed job.
Now Selling
Lower Cost Factory Made Cabinets
We sell and install Great Northern Cabinetry providing 3 different grades of cabinets,
plus our own line of fine handcrafted cabinetry. You will find the
best products for your
home and budget at
Yoder's Quality Kitchens.
Bring in a
sketch, drawing or floor plan
We will work with you to create the
cabinetry that brings your dreams to life.
If it’s wood, I’m sure we could!
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QUALITY
FACTORY CRAFTED MODULAR CABINETS
from
Great Northern Cabinetry, Inc.
We sell and install modular cabinets
that bring
affordability and quality together
with a large selection of eye catching styles and
finishes for your project.
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Come visit our
office and see samples of our work.
We are located approximately 2 miles west of Thompson Falls @ 4771
Highway 200.
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To: Yoder
Quality Kitchens
Subject:
Kitchen, Bathroom and Utility Room Cabinets for
Cabin and Main House
Debbie and I
were well pleased with your professional work on
our cabinets in the cabin during 2004. We were
pleased even more to accept your bid on the main
house in 2008. As cabinetry is one of the main
focal points of any home.
We have received
many compliments from friends and family as to
their beauty and functionality. Debbie and I
combined have completed seven homes and your
reliable work and craftsmanship has exceeded any
other home that we have built to date.
Tom and Debbie
Andrews
Trout Creek, MT |
Paying attention to detail and leaving a neat clean job
stems from our love of working with wood and creating a
beautiful high quality product from raw materials that will
provide satisfaction to the customer for years to come. |
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We cannot
say enough how delighted we are with the expert
craftsmanship and dedicated work ethic
demonstrated by Jon Yoder of Yoder's Quality
Kitchens, Thompson Falls.
Jon is
truly a highly skilled cabinet maker and his
attention to detail is unmatched. Jon built our
entire kitchen cabinetry consisting of 27
cabinets and worked with us to make our scheme
of cabinets flow very efficiently. He even
"customized" our color of stain matching the
blue-gray hue of our floor tile. This was
definitely "over the top" and we are so grateful
for his ability to please his customer. His
"finishing techniques" with our crown molding
and clear maple accenting was truly superior to
anything we could have imagined.
Thanks,
Jon, for your great work and trust we will enjoy
our cabinets for decades!
Art & Kathy Hassan
Trout Creek, Montana |
QUALITY THROUGHOUT
We have over 8 years in woodworking and cabinets making experience.
We do face frame cabinets with all plywood cabinet boxes –
no particle board or melamine.
Drawer boxes are either Baltic birch plywood assembled with
glue and staples (which produce a very durable, cost
effective drawer,) or a solid wood, dovetailed drawer;
whichever the customer prefers.
Pocket hole joinery is used throughout the cabinet. Both in
the face frames and also attaching the cabinet boxes to the
faces along with glue to create a permanent joint.

We are capable of doing any stain or glazed finishes.
Our finish is a conversion varnish by CCI. Conversion
varnishes are considered #1 in producing a high quality
durable finish that stands up to years of use, water and a
host of household products.
Building quality
cabinets in Sanders County, Montana (MT): Thompson Falls, Plains,
Trout Creek, Dixon, Noxon, Herron and Hot Springs;
Lake County,
Montana (MT): Kalispell and Polson;
Bonner County,
Idaho (ID): Sandpoint, Clark Fork, Hope, East Hope and Ponderay
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Cabinet making is the practice of using
various woodworking skills to create cabinets, shelving and furniture.
Cabinet making involves techniques such as creating appropriate joints,
dados, bevels, chamfers and shelving systems, the use of finishing tools
such as routers to create decorative edgings, and so on.
Before the advent of industrial design,
cabinet makers were responsible for the conception and the production of any
piece of furniture. In the last half of the 18th century, cabinet makers
such as Thomas Sheraton, Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite also
published books of furniture forms. These books were compendiums of their
designs and those of other cabinet makers.
With the industrial revolution and the
application of steam power to cabinet making tools, mass production
techniques were gradually applied to nearly all aspects of cabinet making,
and the traditional cabinet shop ceased to be the main source of furniture,
domestic or commercial. In parallel to this evolution there came a growing
demand by the rising middle class in most industrialized countries for
finely made furniture. This eventually resulted in a growth in the total
number of traditional cabinet makers.
Before 1650, fine furniture was a rarity in Western Europe and North
America. Generally, people did not need it and for the most part could not
afford it. They made do with simple but serviceable pieces. The arts and
craft movement which started in the United Kingdom in the middle of the 19th
century spurred a market for traditional cabinet making, and other craft
goods. It rapidly spread to the United States and to all the countries in
the British Empire. This movement exemplified the reaction to the eclectic
historicism of the Victorian era and to the 'soulless' machine-made
production which was starting to become widespread.
After World War II woodworking became a popular hobby among the middle
classes. The more serious and skilled amateurs in this field now turn out
pieces of furniture which rival the work of professional cabinet makers.
Together, their work now represents but a small percentage of furniture
production in any industrial country, but their numbers are vastly greater
than those of their counterparts in the 18th century and before.
There are several schools of popular cabinet design still in use today, such
as Scandinavian, French Provincial, Rustic, Mission style, Oriental, and
Shaker. Scandinavian design is characterized by clean horizontal and
vertical lines, with a distinct absence of ornamentation. It has been
popularized in recent years by one large Scandinavian furniture corporation
that has made its furniture easily available all over the world.
Unlike Scandinavian cabinetry, French Provincial focuses on ornamentation.
Furniture in this style is often stained and painted to conceal the wood
underneath. Wood used in this design varied but was usually beech. Design
for Rustic furniture is often very utilitarian and unfinished. Sometimes
called log furniture or log cabin design, the cabinets often seek to feature
the wood in its natural state with grain, wood characteristics, and
sometimes even the bark of the tree, clearly visible. Wood used in this
cabinetry is often mountainous wood such as pine, spruce, and cedar.
Popularized by the Arts and Crafts movement,
Mission style furniture became popular in the early 20th century and is
credited to have begun in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Mission style
features strait, thick panels and vertical and horizontal lines. Hardware is
often made of dark iron and is featured visibly on the outside of the
cabinets. For cabinet makers, white oak is the material of choice.
Oriental design features simplicity and elegance. The color red is often
used and landscape art and Asian characters are also commonly featured. With
the assimilation and interest in Asian influence and culture in the West in
recent years, this design has become very popular. Shaker furniture, because
its origins are in an egalitarian religious community, its design focuses on
function rather than artistic expression. Shaker cabinetry is characterized
by simplicity and symmetry.
In our modern world, there are countless options in both manufactured and
traditional cabinet making. To those who value and desire it, the skill and
attention of early master cabinet makers is still alive and available today.
A cabinet may be built-in or free-standing. A built-in cabinet is usually
custom made for a particular situation and it is fixed into position, on a
floor, against a wall, or framed in an opening. For example modern kitchens
are examples of built-in cabinetry. Free-standing cabinets are more commonly
available as off-the-shelf items and can be moved from place to place if
required. Cabinets may be wall hung or suspended from the ceiling.
Cabinets may have a face frame or may be of frameless construction (also
known as European or euro-style). Modern cabinetry is often frameless and is
typically constructed from man-made sheet materials, such as plywood,
chipboard or MDF. The visible surfaces of these materials are usually clad
in a timber veneer, plastic laminate, or other material. They may also be
painted.
Bracket feet Cabinets which rest on the floor are supported by some sort of
a base. This base could be a fully enclosed base (i.e. a plinth), a scrolled
based, bracket feet or it could be a set of legs.
A relatively new type of adjustable leg has been adopted from the European
cabinet system which offers several advantages. First off, in making base
cabinets for kitchens, the cabinet sides would be cut to 34 1/2 inches,
yielding four cabinet side blanks per 4 foot by 8 foot sheet. Using the
adjustable feet, the side blanks are cut to 30 inches, thus yielding six
cabinet side per sheet.
These feet can be secured to the bottom of the cabinet by having the leg
base screwed onto the cabinet bottom. They can also be attached by means of
a hole drilled through the cabinet bottom at specific locations. The legs
are then attached to the cabinet bottom by a slotted, hollow machine screw.
The height of the cabinet can be adjusted from inside the cabinet, simply by
inserting a screwdriver into the slot and turning to raise or lower the
cabinet. The holes in the cabinet are capped by plastic inserts, making the
appearance more acceptable for residential cabinets. Using these feet, the
cabinets need not be shimmed or scribed to the floor for leveling. The toe
kick board is attached to the cabinet by means of a clip, which is either
screwed onto the back side of the kick board, or a barbed plastic clip is
inserted into a saw kerf, also made on the back side of the kick board. This
toe kick board can be made to fit each base cabinet, or made to fit a run of
cabinets. [5]
Kitchen cabinets, or any cabinet generally at which a person may stand,
usually have a fully enclosed base in which the front edge has been set back
75 mm or so to provide room for toes, known as the kick space. A scrolled
base is similar to the fully enclosed base but it has areas of the base
material removed, often with a decorative pattern, leaving feet on which the
cabinet stands. Bracket feet are separate feet, usually attached in each
corner and occasionally for larger pieces in the middle of the cabinet.
A cabinet usually has at least one
compartment. Compartments may be open, as in open shelving; they may be
enclosed by one or more doors; or they may contain one or more drawers. Some
cabinets contain secret compartments, access to which is generally not
obvious. Modern cabinets employ many more complicated means (relative to a
simple shelf) of making browsing lower cabinets more efficient and
comfortable.
The lazy susan, a shelf which rotates around a central axis, allowing items
stored at the back of the cabinet to be brought to the front by rotating the
shelf. These are usually used in corner cabinets, which are larger and
deeper and have a greater "dead space" at the back than other cabinets.
Another recent development in cabinet inserts or hardware, often taking the
place of the lazy susan, particularly in base cabinets is the blind corner
cabinet pull out unit. These units pull out and turn, making the attached
shelving unit slide into the open area of the cabinet door, thus making the
shelves accessible to the user. These units vary greatly in design and cost,
but are very practical in making what was once dead space usable.
Other insert hardware is continuously being designed and includes such items
as mixer shelves that pull out of a base cabinet and spring into a locked
position at counter height. This hardware makes lifting these somewhat heavy
mixers and mechanically helping with the process of positioning the unit for
use. More and more components are being designed to enable specialized
hardware to be used in standard cabinet carcasses.
Most cabinets incorporate a top of some sort. In many cases, the top is
merely to enclose the compartments within and serves no other purpose - as
in a wall hung cupboard for example. In other cabinets, the top also serves
as a work surface - a kitchen countertop for example.
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