Over 25 years manufacturing cabinets for the building industry.

• Custom Homes
  • Street of Dreams – LV
  • Celine Dion
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Extreme high end
• High-End Production Units
  • Over 200 builders as customers, including:
    • Lennar Homes
    • Shea Homes
    • Toll Brothers
    • MBK Homes
    • Brookfield Homes
    • K Hovnanian
    • John Laing Luxury
    • Davidson Homes
• Regional Markets
  • Coastal San Diego to San Francisco
  • Inland to Las Vegas
  • Expanding to all Western United States
• High Scale Urban Projects

Vertically integrated factory
When items are made in-house rather than acquiring from vendors as most other companies would do, this is called a vertical operation.

• Veneer
  • We lay-up our own veneer from flitches we purchase direct from mills located
    in areas that produce the best veneer quality and color.
    We are able to purchase exotic veneer and process it for custom requests.
    These veneers have been purchased from every continent in the world, from
    South Africa to Argentina, Canada to Cambodia, Europe to the USA.
    Laying up our veneer also allows us to book match it and control the substrate
    the veneer is applied to. This way we are not forced to accept inferior board
    quality due to a particular veneer needed.
  • MDF, or medium density fiberboard, offers many advantages as a veneer
    substrate for doors. This fiberboard is made from wood and plant by-products.
    The by-products can range from wood chips to sawdust or even harvested
    stock fibers such as wheat chaff. When MDF is manufactured, the fiber grains
    and the resin are bonded in such a way that there is little lateral growth or
    shrinkage when the finished product is exposed to high and low humidity
    conditions. This makes MDF core doors very stable. A veneered MDF door is
    virtually indistinguishable when compared to a solid wood door and saves
    natural resources. [1][G1]Europe consumes approximately 45 million cubic
    meters of particle board and MDF every year. If solid wood were used instead
    of these manufactured boards, an enormous burden would be placed on the
    environment. Using MDF in place of solid wood lessens the need for trees to
    be felled, while at the same time reducing waste.
• Solid Lumber
  • We rip our own lumber to exact dimensions and machine all our own
    moldings and door profiles. [G2]When ripping solid lumber, we use
    computerized optimized rip and chop saws that maximize the yield from every
    board foot of lumber.
• Doors
  • Our wood door construction consists of either a cope-and-stick joint or a
    mortise-and-tenon joint assembled with glue and clamped under extreme
    pressure to ensure very tight joints and thin join lines. These joints along with
    center panel compression balls to minimize movement of the center panels
    ensure a strong, square and rattle free door. We never use metal or plastic
    biscuits as other cabinet companies do, who routinely outsource their doors.
  • All wood doors are made in-house and machine sanded to achieve an exact
    thickness then hand sanded to achieve a smooth white wood surface ready for
    staining and finishing.
  • All our thermofoil doors are processed in-house. We use a PVC overlay that is
    up to three times thicker than used in a commonly purchased door. [G4]Since
    we bond our own MDF substrate with a tightly controlled color thermofoil,
    we are able to achieve greater color quality and less telegraphing of the
    substrate. Since 2004 our thermofoil doors have ranked in the top five
    percentile for edge bond, water soak and peel strength. All these controls
    ensure our thermofoil doors are the best in the industry.
• Finishing
  • Our Classic Finishing Department still utilizes hand wiped stain on the vast
    majority of our wood doors. [F1]We use a catalyzed varnish with a very high
    solid content. The final coatings are dispersed uniformly on the doors and
    panels via reciprocating spray robots. This makes our finishes both beautiful
    and durable. In order to achieve such high quality finishes Eurodesign utilizes
    old world stains and varnishes allowed by the EPA and the State of California
    when used in conjunction with a regenerative thermal oxidizer. [G3]We operate
    the only regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTO) on the West Coast. These
    RTO’s burn off close to 99% of all the VOCs (volatile organic compounds)
    emitted from our finishing operations. As a result, we are able to produce
    exceptional furniture quality finishes in beautiful and lasting colors, which set
    us apart from any other cabinet manufacturer in California.
  • The Legacy Finishing Department combines modern finishing techniques with
    skilled artisans to achieve old world finishes in deep glazes and hand made
    distresses. These finishes can incorporate as many as eight major steps. Our
    artisans are trained over a period of one year to properly learn the techniques
    needed to reproduce an authentic antique look and feel. Once the look is
    achieved the same high solid catalyzed varnishes are applied. As with the
    Classic finishing, nearly all the VOCs produced are removed by our
    [G3]RTO’s.
  • Housed inside our Legacy Finishing Department is the only fully functional
    color laboratory in use at any cabinet company on the West Coast. The color
    lab is stocked with all the necessary equipment needed to guarantee our colors
    are always within our tolerances and our coatings meet our high standards.
    The color lab is managed by a certified color technician.
• Custom Cabinets
  • Our Specials Department manufactures many of the thousands of unique items
    we offer. These custom parts are made by hand by our highly skilled cabinet
    makers. By not outsourcing these items we are able to control the quality and
    final product, ensuring we know [G4]exactly how, where and by whom the
    items were made.
• Cabinet Cases
  • Our cabinet cases are all made in-house. [G2] All case components are made
    from either particle board or plywood and we utilize computerized optimized
    panel saws to maximize the yield on all components. Both of these substrates
    are purchased domestically, usually direct from the [G5]mills. All our
    substrates meet the new [2]CARB rule.
  • We use either a 5/8 inch thick furniture grade particle board or a 5/8 inch thick
    veneer core plywood. Both products surpass all [4]current requirements for
    minimum material standards for cabinet construction and are among the best
    in the industry. 3/8 inch thick and 1/2 inch particle board is very common in
    lower quality cabinets.
  • All our particle board cabinets use a melamine paper which is 20% heavier
    than industry standard. We thermofuse the melamine to the substrate in-house
    on one of two 600 ton presses. We are the only cabinet company on the West
    Coast that thermofuses their own board. Less expensive cabinets often use a
    lower quality rolled on adhesive paper or a very light weight melamine paper.
    Since the melamine we use is 20% heavier than industry standard, it provides
    an efficient barrier against [F1]formaldehyde emissions. Over 90% of our
    cabinet surface areas have a recommended melamine or coatings barrier.
• Assembly
  • We only use dowel and glue construction methods when assembling the
    cabinet cases, rather than the less expensive, lower quality screw and nail
    constructions. The dowel and glue method ensures a very strong cabinet. We
    use automated case clamps that ensure a very square cabinet. Stretchers and
    nailers are applied after the cabinet has been clamped, to ensure the cabinets
    stay square during shipping.
• Delivery
  • We have our own fleet of [G6]delivery trucks, ranging in the sizes needed to
    ship efficiently to all areas of California, Arizona and Nevada. Our goals in
    meeting the delivery needs of our clients include careful consideration of fuel
    economy and timeliness.
• Installation
  • Our professional installation team offers fully turn-key services, including the
    initial installation, 48-hour walk through, touch up, final adjustments and
    qualified supervision. Our team members always appear in Eurodesign shirts
    and have a clean and polite manner.

Green

• [G1] By using manufactured board in our standard product offerings, we reduce wood waste sent to the landfill. Applying veneer to a manufactured substrate is a better use of harvested trees. When using veneer instead of solid wood, there is a better utilization of the raw wood, as much as 50 times greater. This leaves more forests in their natural state and allows more time for replacement trees to mature.
• [G2] Processes that maximize yield, minimize waste, and conserve our natural resources play a major roll in the efforts to becoming a Green organization as outlined in The Seven Steps to Becoming Green.TM
• [G3] Regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs) remove 99% of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) created when finishing our cabinets. These VOCs are sent into a thermal chamber operating at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit and are burned off. The RTOs use the VOCs as a fuel to keep the thermal chambers heated; this makes the RTO units capable of self-generating heat and lowers our carbon footprint considerably.
• [G4] In this new global economy outsourcing is a common practice. Care must be taken to understand and verify the source of all materials both inside and beyond the borders of the United States. Supply chain control is very important in meeting and sustaining a Green organization. Formaldehyde, PBDEs, Lead, Arsenic, Cyanide and Carbon Emissions are just a few of the recent revelations that have surfaced when the supply chain includes third world sources.
• [G5] By buying direct from the mill, solid and manufactured woods are transported via railcars. All the woods are bundled into heavy units which require far less fuel to transport than assembled cabinets. It is possible to send more than ten times the weight in solid woods in the same cubic space required for twenty assembled cabinets. Cabinets shipped across the Rockies into the Western United States have a very large carbon footprint due to the fuel requirement.
• [G6] Matching the delivery truck to the size of the delivery makes sense both in efficiency and in fuel usage. We lease newer trucks, which are more fuel efficient and also must meet a more stringent emission standard.

Formaldehyde

• [F1] Barrier mechanisms are recognized as the best method to reduce the emissions of Urea-formaldehyde. Melamine is a nonporous coating thermally bonded to the substrate. Coatings such as catalyzed varnishes are also recognized as the best method to reduce the emissions of Urea-formaldehyde. Eurodesign utilizes a duel pass coating method, which produces the best results when compared to all other coating methods. Barrier methods reduce the surface area that emits the formaldehyde molecule, HOHC.

1. From Wikipedia
2. January 1, 2009, California will begin regulating the formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products (particleboard, MDF, and hardwood plywood)
3. Helmitin Adhesives and ASTM bond test.
4. KCMA Standards
5. The Seven Steps to Becoming Green.TM
   a. Carbon Footprint
   b. Supply Chain
   c. Recycling
   d. Efficiency
   e. Education
   f. Collaboration
   g. Waste Elimination