> Quick view: eight Klang Valley kitchen cabinet specialists, each read against its own website during this check. Published RM figures where they exist, the material and hardware spec behind them, showroom locations — and an honest note on the two operators whose own pages contradict themselves.

Why the number you are quoted is not the number to compare

Malaysian cabinet makers quote in ringgit per running foot — sometimes written "per ft run" or "rft". It sounds like a unit of measurement. It is closer to a unit of marketing, because the same number can describe three completely different jobs.

Before a per-foot figure means anything, it has to answer five questions:

1. Top and bottom, or bottom only? A kitchen has base cabinets and wall cabinets. Some quotes price the run once and mean both; some mean the base run only and add wall cabinets separately. This alone can move a quote by 60 to 80 per cent.

2. What is the carcass made of? The box behind the door does the structural work and takes the water. EverGreen's published table separates E0 particle board (RM180–RM280 per running foot) from plywood and multi-layer board (RM250–RM380) precisely because the box material, not the door, is what fails first in a Malaysian wet kitchen. Bespoke Kitchen's own configurator offers a straight choice between melamine hardboard and natural-anodised aluminium for the internal cabinet.

3. What is the door? Melamine, PVC-foil-wrapped, MDF with paint, 3G or 4G tempered glass, acrylic panel and solid wood are all on the market and all price differently. In EverGreen's table, swapping an acrylic door onto the same E0 box moves the range from RM180–RM280 to RM220–RM320.

4. Is the worktop in or out? Quartz, solid surface and granite are usually quoted separately, per foot, on top of the cabinet price. The Cabinet Maker's packages include quartz tabletop skirting; most per-foot quotes do not include the slab at all.

5. Whose hinges and runners? EverGreen states that Blum hardware adds RM30 to RM80 per running foot and, on its own figures, is what takes a cabinet's life past twenty years. EverGreen fits Blum BLUMOTION hinges and LEGRABOX drawers as standard and says so on the page. Huei · Cabinet Lab used to list Blum and Hettich as its standard and no longer publishes that claim anywhere — which is exactly why the brand belongs in the contract rather than in your memory of a website. A quote that does not name the hardware brand is not a complete quote.

Get those five answers from all three of your shortlisted contractors and the comparison becomes real. Skip them and you will pick the cheapest quote and pay the difference later.

What the published numbers actually say

EverGreen Custom Cabinets is the only operator here that publishes a full material-by-material table, and it is worth reading in full before you take any quote:

| Material | Published range (per running foot) | |---|---| | E0 particle board (melamine) | RM180 – RM280 | | PVC foil wrapped | RM200 – RM280 | | MDF | RM200 – RM300 | | E0 particle board + acrylic door | RM220 – RM320 | | Plywood / multi-layer board | RM250 – RM380 | | Solid wood (rubberwood / oak) | RM350 – RM450 |

Its own worked example: a 10ft × 10ft kitchen, about 20 running feet of cabinets, comes to RM4,000 to RM12,000 fully installed. That spread — a factor of three for the same kitchen — is the honest answer to "how much does a kitchen cabinet cost in Malaysia".

The Cabinet Maker, trading as IMPI Builders Sdn Bhd (1417516-M) and operating since 2017, sells the opposite model: fixed whole-home packages. Pakej Minimalis at RM15,980 covers a 10ft base kitchen run, a 10ft wall run, a 2.5ft fridge cabinet, an 8.5ft swing wardrobe with a makeup table, a 6ft × 8ft TV console and a 3ft × 8ft hanging shoe rack, with melamine doors, a melamine internal carcass with ABS edging, quartz tabletop skirting and a free 3ft PVC waterproof carcass upgrade at the sink area. Pakej Elegan is RM18,980 and Pakej Idaman RM21,980. If you are fitting out an empty house, that is a genuinely comparable number. If you only need a kitchen, it is not.

Cabiné, which trades at kabinetdapur.com.my, publishes the lowest entry figures on this list — Simple Cabinet from RM3,100 and Premium Cabinet from RM6,000 — and states plainly on the same page that many contractors calculate by the foot while it quotes by package. Its site has been rebuilt since our previous check, and the contradictory figures we flagged then (a RM3,400 banner and a stale "Promosi Terhad 2025" graphic) are gone. The page now sets out three prices per package: a market price, Cabiné's own price and a promo price — RM4,500 / RM3,800 / RM3,100 for Simple, and RM8,600 / RM7,200 / RM6,000 for Premium. The "30% OFF" badge is measured against the market price, not against Cabiné's own; against its own the reductions are 18 and 17 per cent. No expiry is published, so ask whether the promo figure is the price you will actually be invoiced.

Rowenda Kitchen has also started publishing, in linear feet, for aluminium only: RM180–RM250 basic, RM280–RM420 premium, RM450–RM650 fully custom. Between EverGreen's table and Rowenda's, you can now bracket both a timber-carcass and an aluminium kitchen before anyone visits your house — which is more than this market offered a year ago.

Everyone else on this list quotes after a site visit. That is not evasion — layout, run length, accessories and site conditions genuinely move the number — but it does mean the burden of comparison falls on you.

What the whole kitchen costs, and how long it takes

Cabinets are the biggest line, not the only one. EverGreen puts cabinetry at 40 to 60 per cent of a total kitchen renovation budget, and publishes the rest of the arithmetic on the same page, which almost nobody else does.

By kitchen size, cabinetry only, in E0 board with Blum hardware:

  • Condo or apartment, 10–15 running feet — RM3,000 to RM5,500
  • Typical two-storey terrace, 15–25 running feet — RM5,000 to RM9,000
  • Bungalow or semi-D, 25–40 running feet — RM8,000 to RM16,000

Then the lines that turn a cabinet quote into a kitchen bill:

  • Worktop — quartz RM150–RM350 per running foot, solid surface RM120–RM250, granite RM100–RM200
  • Demolition and disposal of the old kitchen — RM500 to RM1,500
  • Plumbing and electrical — RM1,000 to RM3,000, depending on how far anything moves
  • Tiled backsplash — RM500 to RM2,000
  • Appliances — hob, hood, oven, fridge, budgeted separately

So a terrace kitchen with RM7,000 of cabinetry realistically lands somewhere around RM11,000 to RM15,000 once the worktop, demolition, wet works and tiling are in — before appliances. If a contractor's single figure is well under that and includes everything, ask what has been left out.

On timing, EverGreen publishes 3 to 4 weeks of production after you approve the design, 3 to 7 days to install, and roughly 5 to 6 weeks from first consultation to a finished kitchen. Build that into a handover date rather than assuming a fortnight.

How to pick, in order

  1. Decide the carcass material first, not the door. In a Malaysian kitchen with a wet-and-dry layout, the sink run is the failure point. Look for a moisture-resistant carcass there specifically — PVC, aluminium or plywood — even if the rest of the run is melamine. The Cabinet Maker includes a 3ft PVC waterproof carcass at the sink area in its packages precisely because that is where the damage starts.
  2. Ask for the quote broken into base run, wall run, tall units and worktop. A single lump sum hides where your money is going and makes three quotes impossible to compare.
  3. Name the hardware in the contract. Blum and Hettich hinges and runners are the two brands the specialists on this list name by choice. Written into the quote, they are a spec; left out, they are a hope.
  4. Visit one factory or showroom before you sign. Signature's Kota Damansara flagship runs to 50,000 sq ft and it has twenty-seven more outlets across the Klang Valley; Rowenda's showroom in TTDI is open seven days a week, 10am to 6pm, which is the easiest one to fit into a weekend; The Cabinet Maker has a walk-in showroom at Bangi Gateway; Bespoke Kitchen opens Saturdays and Sundays until 5.30pm, though call first, because its About page and its footer give two different Puchong addresses. Doors and drawer runners feel different in the hand than in a render.
  5. Use a configurator to set your baseline. Bespoke Kitchen's public Instant Quotation tool walks through door material, carcass, worktop, dimensions and accessories and produces a downloadable PDF. Even if you buy elsewhere, walking through it first tells you which questions your other quotes have quietly skipped.
  6. Check the warranty and what voids it. EverGreen advertises a 10-year warranty on its custom cabinets and Rowenda Kitchen a five-year warranty on aluminium. Both are longer than the industry norm, which makes the written terms worth reading rather than assuming.

Three honest caveats

Marketing statistics are not data. Rowenda Kitchen's aluminium page states that aluminium cabinets keep "95% of their structural integrity after 5 years" against 60 per cent for wood, citing no study. The underlying point — aluminium does not warp or feed termites — is sound and is why aluminium exists as a category. The percentages are advertising, and should be read that way.

Check that the site you are reading is being maintained. Bespoke Kitchen is a real, long-established Puchong manufacturer, but the newest post under its "Latest Updates" heading is a Chinese New Year closure notice from February 2019, its About page still carries a 2021 copyright line and a stray injected external link sits in the middle of a sentence — and the About page and the footer give two different Puchong addresses. That says nothing about the carpentry; it does mean you should confirm current prices, the showroom address and contact details by phone rather than trusting the page.

A claim can quietly disappear. When we first wrote this list, Cabinet Lab published a Bukit Kemuning factory, a Kota Kemuning showroom, 21 years of experience and Blum-and-Hettich hardware as standard. On re-check the business has relaunched as Huei · Cabinet Lab under a 2025 registration, and none of those four claims appears anywhere on the new site. The company is trading and the address is unchanged; the specification simply is not published any more. This is the ordinary way small-operator websites behave, and it is the reason the only spec that protects you is the one written into your own quotation.

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