European Kitchen Cabinets - Black - Brown-Black

In the battle of European kitchen cabinets, it s the big dogs who prevail. While market conditions and demand dictate pricing of most items, tastes in the U.S. typically don t run in the direction of swank Euro-cabinetry.

In other words, there is not enough competition to drive down prices. Many homeowners looking for European kitchen cabinets find themselves going to the expensive importers.

There are exceptions, most notably IKEA.

IKEA-lovers in touch with kitchen trends swear that the high-end Italian cabinet manufacturer Snaidero is the true maker of IKEA kitchen cabinets. True or false?

We don t know at this point, but we did put in a message to both Anna Paola Snaidero and Valeria Basso at Snaidero USA to ask about this rumor. A response is pending.

I have compiled comparisons of Snaidero kitchen cabinets alongside far, far cheaper IKEA cabinets. Short story: you cannot find exact duplicates of Snaidero kitchen cabinets in IKEA form (in a perfect world, right?). In many cases, you can get much cheaper kitchen cabinets which are very much in the spirit of the ultra-expensive Snaidero cabinets. The best example we found is the above:

Lustrous black cabinets. Particleboard construction, melamine surface.

Lustrous black cabinets. Particleboard construction, melamine surface. NEXUS brown-black finish doors.