Testimonials

Here's what our clients say about:


The Cabinetry

Just a week ago, our fourth bedroom was just a lint trap, cluttered and cramped. In just a few days, it has been transformed into a stunning, spacious library. We are having trouble spending time anywhere else in the house.
-- Stevan and Stephany Cavalier, homeowners

The cabinet doors are sensational looking.
-- Morgan Gilman, homeowner

What he did really made the house.
-- Morgan Gilman, homeowner

The family room was really a knockout with beautiful stain-grade rooms.
-- Jim Grey, The Carving Workshop

The laundry room is undoubtedly the most exquisite in Lamorinda.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

As you move through the house, all the cabinetry and molding just ties in. Everybody who comes in the house comments on the cabinetry.
-- Ann Mosle, homeowner

The Quality Of Our Work

The Bentley of cabinetry. It’s got all the bells and whistles and detail that you could imagine, so it takes it to the highest level of cabinetry. Basically it’s furniture.
-- Dave Marcotte, Alec Homes

Most of the cabinetry looked like furniture.
-- Ross Rembac, RCM

What Ray did really made the house.
-- Morgan Gilman, homeowner

I’d ask, “Who’s the finest cabinetmaker?” And they’d say, “Oh, try Sierra.”
-- Suzanne Warrick, Office of Interiors

They do multi-million dollar homes and their work looks like it.
-- Danny Hernandez, D&H Tile)

They know what they’re doing and they build top notch stuff.
-- Randy, Matken Pacific

He’s a real quality cabinet company.
-- Mike Tague, Tague Construction

I got a fantastic product from him.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

The quality of your work is superb.
-- Stevan and Stephany Cavalier, homeowners

Fabulous job—very impressed with the quality of both the material and the construction.
-- Ramsey A. Araj, M.D., homeowner

Our Aesthetics

It’s just so beautiful because he made it look very Old World. It looks like furniture. I’m really happy with it.
-- Ann Mosle, homeowner

The cabinets are beautiful; they’re 17-piece doors and they’re sensational looking.
-- Morgan Gilman, homeowner

It’s pretty much the showpiece of the house.
-- Ross Rembac, RCM

Beautiful, beautiful look.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

I liked it so much and it’s so unique that I did my own kitchen in it.
-- Tom Castellino, Castle Construction

All my houses are showpieces, every one of them—partly due to guys like Ray.
-- Mike Tague, Tague Construction THE DESIGN …

I think there isn’t a better designer in the cabinet world.
-- Karen Zapellino, Designer

He’s very good at the design and that’s why we use him.
-- Mike Tague, Tague Construction

Ray pays attention to detail; he has proportions that are appropriate. So often all the little details are what makes a cabinet great versus just a box.
-- Suzanne Warrick, Office of Interiors

Ray so creative and has such great ideas and has a real artistic eye.
-- Ann Mosle, homeowner

He has an excellent design team.
-- Dave Marcotte, Alec Homes

Working With Us

Everyone at Sierra Cabinets is uniquely capable—everyone from the secretary to the guys that draw the plans and lay the jobs out. And that’s one of the great benefits of Sierra Cabinets.
-- Mark Schmidt, Paul Schmidt Builders

I can go and talk to his shop guys directly. I don’t even have to deal with Ray.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

He has an excellent design team.
-- Dave Marcotte, Alec Homes

His installers are great. They’re really talented people.
-- Morgan Gilman, homeowner

I recommend them all the time.
-- Morgan Gilman, homeowner

His crew was great. I recommend them to everyone.
-- Ann Mosle, homeowner

They were a godsend.
-- John Tibbles, Aspenwood

They’re the only one I use for cabinetry.
-- Randy, Matken Pacific

It was a pleasure working with Sierra Cabinets from the start.
-- Stevan and Stephany Cavalier, homeowners

Very professional, very easy to work with.
-- Judy May, homeowner

If I ever use another cabinet guy again, it’ll only be because they’re beating Ray’s price by 30%.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

Our Process

They design it, they critique it, they make the adjustments, they build it, it’s installed, and we just don’t have any problems.
-- Mark Schmidt, Paul Schmidt Builders

They take your ideas and develop them into a finished product
-- Charlie Wall, homeowner).

The homeowners had ideas, but Ray made them come together by showing them all the pieces that would make a cabinet look like furniture and gave them that vision that they wouldn’t have known what to do with otherwise.
-- Ross Rembac, RCM

Ray was willing to work with us with different ideas that had never been done before. He was always willing to take the extra step.
-- Ann Mosle, homeowner

Our Follow Through

If there’s a problem it’s taken care of immediately.
-- Tom Castellino, Castle Construction

He is immediate in responding to problems.
-- Jeff Momsen, Momsen Construction

For a cabinet company, you want someone who can follow through after the job’s completed, and Ray’s company speaks volumes along those lines.
-- Dave Marcotte, Alec Homes

Sierra Cabinets offers Service with a capital “S.” They’re willing to stand by their products above and beyond the call of duty.
-- Ramsey A. Araj, M.D., homeowner

I’ll give you an example. One of the tall laundry room cabinet was too big to get in the door. They came out and got it that afternoon, rebuilt it in the shop and got it back to me the next day.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

Our Turnaround Times

They understand the concept of a schedule.
-- Charlie Wall, homeowner

They said 8 weeks or 10 weeks, and that’s what it was.
-- Bonnie Zumbo, homeowner

I’ve been working with Ray for 20 years, and he’s always managed to deliver in a timely fashion.
-- Bill Patterson, Shelter Development

We use Ray because he’s able to produce a large range of highly customized cabinets in a fairly short period of time for us and meet our deadlines. In the past, we had a lot of problems with smaller cabinetmakers that weren’t as disciplined on the timing as Ray is.
-- John Holt, J.S. Holt Construction

Our Pricing

Ray has typically provided exactly the proper price point and the quality we’re seeking. He can provide you a low grade, medium grade, or very high quality cabinets, which is important because everybody has different needs.
-- Bill Patterson, Shelter Development)

Ray is fairly priced, and he’ll give ideas on how to work within a budget—how you get that high-end A+ look on a B- budget. I’m very price conscious because I have to be, the margins have just gotten so small.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

Once I received your bid, it was entirely reasonable, and, quite frankly, a good value.
-- Ramsey A. Araj, M.D., homeowner

The Crew

Everyone at Sierra Cabinets is uniquely capable—everyone from the secretary to the guys that draw the plans and lay the jobs out. And that’s one of the great benefits of Sierra Cabinets.
-- Mark Schmidt, Paul Schmidt Builders

I can go and talk to his shop guys directly. I don’t even have to deal with Ray.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

His installers are great. They’re really talented people.
-- Morgan Gilman, homeowner

His crew was great.
-- Ann Mosle, homeowner

Pretty reliable bunch.
-- Randy, Matken Pacific

Ray has good people working for him, and I enjoy them a lot.
-- Jeff Momsen, Momsen Construction

I liked all the guys.
-- Judy May, homeowner

The shop guys are fantastic.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

Your installers were a pleasure to work with—efficient, courteous and neat.
-- Stevan and Stephany Cavalier, homeowners

Ray

He’s “the guy” right now.
-- Tom Castellino, Castle Construction

I couldn’t give a guy a better character reference.
-- Jeff Momsen, Momsen Construction

Just a fun guy to do business with.
-- Mark Bohan, Builder

He can darned well do anything that you need to be done.
-- Bill Patterson, Shelter Development

He is professional, he’s experienced, and his work is consistently good.
-- Jim Grey, The Carving Workshop

He’s a great guy.
-- Jeffrey Woods, Black Mountain Development

We’ve got all good things to say about Ray.
-- Mike Tague, Tague Construction

I think the best thing about working with Ray was just his expertise and how kind and helpful he was.
-- Ann Mosle, homeowner

Our Outside Resources

He has the resources to do any embellishments that we want, whether it’s inlaid marketry or hand carving, in addition to figured woods and the various finishes that designers can come up.
-- Suzanne Warrick, Office of Interiors

I had wanted kind of a Japanese/Asian design on part of the cabinets, and he came up with the idea of having a carving and found a carver for me that did that work.
-- Judy May, homeowner

Sierra Cabinets offers a wide range of finishes that a lot of cabinet shops just don’t produce—everything from a common stain and lacquer or a natural finish to all of the pastel colors that a client could possibly ask for, as well as custom matching, glazed and highlighted finishes, and distressed finishes like old French country furniture.
-- Mark Schmidt, Paul Schmidt Builders