When you open your kitchen cabinets, do you brace yourself for an avalanche? If so, maybe it’s time for an update. Cabinets are the foundation of your kitchen. Everything is built in and around your cabinets. But with so many kitchen cabinet options, which is the best?

To begin, the truth is, when shopping for kitchen cabinets, you really only have three options — custom, semi-custom or stock.

The first thing to know when noting differences between stock, semi-custom, and custom cabinets is that the terms refer to the type of production methods used to make the cabinets, and not to the quality of the cabinets.