American Craftmanship

There are so many good reasons to manufacture cabinets in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

• StarMark Cabinetry is made in Sioux Falls with domestic and global components. 
• Sioux Falls is near the center of the nation, so most destinations are close, relatively speaking. We deliver cabinetry to Maine just as easily as we deliver to California.
• Our central location also makes it convenient to receive the quality raw materials we source from American vendors.
• Our employees care about quality cabinetry.
  • Our employees are actively and passionately engaged in our Continuous Improvement (CI) process.
  • We have several CI teams from several different departments who watch over every aspect of cabinet production, from order processing through delivery.

Handcrafted Quality

You’ll find more than a few power tools in our plant. Still, the most important tools are the hands and eyes of our employees.

Here are a few examples:

• We assemble doors by hand.
  • It’s the best way to insure that mitered doors have tight joints.
  • It’s the best way to insure that the decorative trim on an applied moulding door is aligned smartly.
• We machine sand and hand sand for the best possible finish.
• We glaze cabinetry by hand.
  • First, we stain the wood, then we apply the glaze and then wipe it off by hand.
  • When our craftsman wipes off the glaze, he or she can best use the glaze to define the details in your kitchen.
• We distress cabinetry by hand.
  • Balancing knife marks, worm holes, rasping and other characteristics throughout an entire room of cabinetry requires thoughtful, artistic judgment. We haven’t met a machine yet that has that ability.
• Every component that goes into your cabinet is handled by a human. Each employee can reject a component if it’s not good enough.

More information about our cabinet construction is in a convenient workbook called Cabinetry Comparison Workbook.

More information about our cabinet finishing process is in a convenient flier called Strong at the Finish. 

Attention to Detail

We pay attention to all the details, even the ones you can’t see.

There are hundreds of details that go into making each cabinet. Our best craftsmanship goes into the details that you see, and into the many, many details that you will never see.

For example, after your counter top is installed, this craftsmanship is concealed:

• The side of the cabinet (“end panel”) needs to connect with the face frame of the cabinet. We do that with joinery called dado. Most manufacturers are satisfied with an inadequate butt joint.
• We add side-to-side runners to inset cabinetry to insure the cabinets stay square.
• We also build our inset cabinetry with captive tops and bottoms so the cabinets stay square.

What you can see and feel:

• When the side of a cabinet is visible, many homeowners like to specify flush ends. After we build the flush end, we sand it. This extra step insures a smooth, truly flush end.
• The edges of the doors are sprayed twice for a durable, smooth feel.

More information about our cabinet construction is found in the Cabinetry Comparison Workbook.