Render of the completed Bay Area kitchen with light oak cabinetry, a stone-topped peninsula and two bar stools

Arcaya Customer Case Study — Bay Area

How Arcaya Delivered a Full Light-Oak Kitchen for a Bay Area Home

Location Bay Area, California
Scope Kitchen, pantry wall, coffee bar, entry storage
Finish Light oak veneer with cream white panels
Service Drawings, production, trial assembly, installation

Background

A Bay Area homeowner was renovating the main floor and wanted the kitchen, the tall pantry wall, a built-in coffee bar and the entry storage run to read as one continuous piece of joinery. Arcaya handled the project end to end: measured drawings, factory production, a full trial assembly before shipment, and installation on site alongside the general contractor.

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Stage One

Design & Specification

The layout was drawn to the room's measured dimensions before production, including the peninsula overhang, the appliance housings and the exact shelf heights in the coffee niche.

  • Light oak veneer doors and panels, cream white upper cabinets
  • Stone countertop with a waterfall end on the peninsula
  • Housings for wall oven, microwave, dishwasher and refrigerator
  • Glass-fronted black-framed wall cabinet above the cooktop run
  • Lit oak coffee niche with floating shelves and closed base storage
Render of the U-shaped kitchen with stone peninsula, oak base cabinets and full-height pantry wall
The kitchen wraps three walls, with the stone peninsula opening toward the living space.
Render of the cooking wall with oak tall cabinets, built-in oven stack and black refrigerator Render of the sink run and stone waterfall peninsula seen from the living area Render of the built-in coffee niche with floating oak shelves and closed base cabinets Render of the entry storage run with long drawer fronts and open shoe recess
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Stage Two

Trial Assembly & Inspection

Every cabinet was built and stood up on the factory floor before shipment. Carcass squareness, door gaps, drawer runners, appliance openings and the long entry run were checked against the drawings, labelled, then dismantled and packed.

Cabinet carcasses and white panels taped and labelled on the factory floor Oak and white cabinet assembly checked from the side Tall oak pantry cabinet with open shelving assembled upright Appliance housing and drawer boxes trial-fitted together Long entry storage carcass with divided compartments seen from above Cream white door panels laid out across the assembled base run Appliance opening measured against its finished door panels Long oak drawer frame prepared for packing
Each run was assembled, inspected and labelled in the factory so nothing needed adjusting on site.
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Stage Three

Installed on Site

The cabinets went in with the floor still protected and the house mid-renovation: wall cabinets hung and levelled, the pantry wall and appliance tower set, and the peninsula positioned ready for its stone top.

Kitchen during installation with upper cabinets hung, oak base run in place and the floor covered
Upper cabinets hung and levelled, oak trim capping the run into the ceiling line.
Pantry wall and appliance tower installed against the protected floor Peninsula base cabinets positioned with the window run behind Wide view of the kitchen with all cabinet runs installed Sink run and peninsula with door panels staged on the counter

Outcome

Because every run had already been assembled and signed off in the factory, installation was a matter of placing, levelling and fixing. The kitchen, pantry wall, coffee bar and entry storage arrived as one labelled set and went in without rework, keeping the homeowner's renovation schedule intact.

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