Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you might want to know before the first conversation. If your question is not here, ask us. The first conversation is always complimentary, and it costs nothing to find out whether LAVISH is the right fit.
General Questions
LAVISH is a European cabinetry design studio in Austin and San Antonio. We design kitchens, baths, built-ins and furniture around how people live, then engineer, build and install the cabinetry ourselves. We work with homeowners, custom home builders, interior designers, architects and developers. Every project is made in our Texas facility and installed by our own crew, so one team answers for it from the first drawing to the last adjusted hinge.
No. We’re a cabinetry design studio. We design the space with you, build the cabinetry and install it. Your contractor handles demolition, plumbing, electrical, flooring, countertops and general construction, and we coordinate with them so the cabinetry lands where the drawings say it will. If you don’t have a contractor yet, we can refer trade partners we trust.
Homeowners, and the professionals who build and design their homes. If you’re a homeowner, you work one-on-one with a LAVISH designer from the first conversation to final sign-off. Builders, contractors, remodelers, architects and developers get a dedicated contact, priority scheduling and installation planned around the construction schedule. Interior designers keep their client relationship. Your client stays your client.
Frameless cabinetry. There’s no face frame on the front of the box, so the doors and drawers mount straight to the cabinet and cover it almost edge to edge. The result is a clean architectural line, with tight, even reveals and more storage inside the same footprint. It’s also the construction behind Mise en Place design: everything in its place before you need it, so the kitchen thinks ahead and you move freely.
LAVISH builds its frameless cabinetry in Central Texas to European standards, with North American and European materials and hardware.
Yes. We work with homeowners, builders and designers across Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding Central Texas area. Our showrooms are at Domain Northside in Austin and La Cantera in San Antonio. Either one is a good place to see and touch the finishes and hardware before you commit to anything.
With a conversation. The first one is always complimentary, because we want to earn your confidence before we ask for your commitment. Homeowners can book a consultation online or by phone. Builders, contractors and interior designers can request a trade introduction; we respond within one business day. Either way, we’ll talk through your project, your budget and your timeline before you commit a dollar.
Trade Questions
For Builders, Contractors & Architects
At the plan stage, before framing and well before plumbing and electrical rough-in. A plan review lets us coordinate sink, appliance, outlet, lighting, ventilation and blocking locations with the cabinetry, so nothing has to be reworked after the walls are closed. Coming in early also reserves your production slot and gives your buyer a realistic cabinetry number during selections.
Yes. We work with architects on custom homes and larger residential projects. If we’re in during design development, the cabinetry is coordinated with plumbing, electrical, ventilation, structure and budget before the construction documents are final. Our in-house engineering handles flush reveals, integrated lighting, wall paneling and non-standard dimensions, and we produce the drawings your consultants coordinate against.
Your schedule is our schedule. We manufacture in-house, install with our own crew and give you one trade contact, so there’s no supplier or subcontractor sitting between your timeline and our delivery. You get milestone updates, early notice of any change to the timeline and site-condition reports, so nothing surprises you or your superintendent. We make you look good.
Dried-in and climate-controlled, with the HVAC running so humidity stays stable. Drywall finished and primed, flooring decided, and plumbing, electrical and blocking completed to the approved drawings. We need a clean, safe, accessible work area and a secure place for the delivered cabinetry. Your LAVISH contact will confirm readiness with your superintendent before delivery.
We do. We measure on site before manufacturing, so the cabinetry is built to the room as it was built, not to the plan. If walls, openings or rough-in locations change after we’ve measured, tell your LAVISH contact right away so we can update the drawings before production.
We give your trades the cabinet layout and appliance details they need, and we schedule installation around your construction sequence. Cabinets go in, get leveled and secured, and your countertop fabricator templates; plumbing and appliance trim-out follow. We need final appliance model numbers before the drawings are finalized so panels, cutouts and ventilation fit. Your LAVISH contact coordinates each handoff with your superintendent.
Every change is written up as a change order, with the cost and schedule impact confirmed in writing before any work proceeds, so you can pass accurate numbers to your client. The earlier a change is caught, the less it costs. Once manufacturing has started, some changes mean rebuilding components, and your LAVISH contact will tell you plainly what’s involved before you decide.
Yes. We work with builders across their whole portfolio, from spec-home kitchens to whole-home programs. Standing trade partners get priority scheduling and a dedicated contact who learns their standards over time. For spec homes, the showroom gives your buyers a place to see and touch European cabinetry before they commit. It’s a spec upgrade that helps the house sell.
For Developers
Yes. We manufacture European frameless cabinetry in-house at repeatable scale, so specification, finish and installation stay consistent from the first unit to the last. We work directly with your architect and interior designer on the spec, provide shop drawings for coordination, and can hold a pre-construction meeting with your team within the week. QC documentation is available on request. Send us the scope and timeline and we’ll tell you within two business days whether we can execute.
For Interior Designers
Yes. We carry an extended range of wood veneers, lacquers and specialty finishes, and we match custom colors on request. Physical samples are at both showrooms. Look at them with your client under real light before the decision is final; finishes behave differently in a room than they do on a screen.
Yes, and we’d encourage it. Photographs can’t show the weight of a drawer or the depth of a lacquer. Bring your client in to see and touch the finishes, hardware and frameless construction before they commit. Our team can explain the construction on your behalf while you stay the lead on every design decision.
Not without you. We work as an extension of your practice and never build a separate relationship with your client. You lead every client conversation and we support you behind it. When it helps, we’ll walk your client through construction quality for you, in the showroom or on site. Your specification, your credit and your client stay yours.
Yes. We build what you draw. Your specification becomes the basis for our engineering and manufacturing, and our in-house engineers work out the non-standard dimensions and custom details so it can be built as you intended. If something has to change for function, structure or an appliance, we raise it with you before production. Never quietly.
During space planning, before the construction documents are final. Early input lets our engineers confirm that your cabinetry details, appliance integration and storage plan can be built as drawn, and it gives your client a realistic budget before selections are locked. It also reserves production time; standing trade partners get priority scheduling.
Trade Program
Residential professionals in Austin, San Antonio and Central Texas: custom home builders, general contractors, remodelers, interior designers, architects and developers.
One dedicated contact from the first call to final sign-off. In-house design and engineering for custom specifications, manufacturing in our Texas facility and installation by our own crew. Milestone updates without your having to ask, priority scheduling, and open access to both showrooms for your clients and buyers.
Trade pricing is discussed privately during the trade introduction. Our projects typically run from about $60,000 to well over $300,000, from a single spec-home kitchen to a whole-home program.
Yes. Because we design and engineer every project in-house, we produce the drawings your team needs to coordinate the cabinetry with the rest of the build: plans, elevations and the cabinet details other trades rely on. Engineering covers non-standard dimensions, custom specifications and appliance integration.
Request a trade introduction below. We’ll respond within one business day and set up a conversation about your projects, your standards and how we’d fit your schedule. There’s no commitment at this stage; the point is to decide together whether we’re the right cabinetry partner for the next tier of your work.
Pricing Questions
Five things: the size of the project (rooms and linear feet), materials and finishes, hardware and interior organization, appliance integration, and how far the design departs from standard dimensions. Wood veneers, specialty lacquers, tall pantry units, curved pieces and non-standard sizes all add cost. Your LAVISH designer will show you how each choice moves the total, so the budget goes where you’ll feel it every day.
Everything we do: design, engineering, manufacturing in our Texas facility, delivery and installation by our own crew. Hardware, interior organization and appliance panels are specified as part of the design and included in the price. Countertops, appliances, plumbing, electrical and general construction are handled by your builder or other trades, and we coordinate with them so the cabinetry fits as drawn.
Our projects start around $60,000 for a full kitchen and run to well over $300,000 for a whole home. If that isn’t where your project is right now, we’ll tell you in the first conversation. We’d rather say it up front than waste your time. If you’re close, come in anyway. Half an hour to understand what’s included at this level is time well spent, and the number is often nearer than you expect.
The first consultation is complimentary. After that, payments follow four milestones: design, order placement, start of installation and final sign-off. Payments track progress, so there’s no large upfront commitment, and the structure fits the way builders manage draw schedules.
Tell us the number early. We’ve done this with $60,000 kitchens and $300,000 ones. The difference is scale; the process is the same. In the first conversation we talk through your design goals, your budget and your schedule, then design to the budget rather than around it, showing you where materials, storage and detail earn their place and where they don’t. You’ll know what your project costs before you commit to anything.
Our Process Questions
A conversation about how you live, not a walk through a catalog. Bring your inspiration images, a rough budget and your timeline. We’ll talk about how you cook, where mornings happen and what gets in your way in the kitchen you have now. Then we’ll tell you plainly whether LAVISH is the right fit, what a project like yours typically costs and what the next step would be. The consultation is complimentary. There’s nothing to sign and nothing to decide that day.
It depends on the size of the project, how quickly decisions get made and the construction schedule around it. Every project moves through three stages: design and approval, manufacturing in our Texas facility, and installation by our own crew. Because we build locally rather than import, there are no overseas shipping delays, and we confirm your timeline before you commit.
If you decide to move forward, design begins. A LAVISH designer develops the layout, storage plan, materials and finishes with you (and with your builder or interior designer if you have one), refining the details until the design fits how you live and what you want to spend. Design is the first payment milestone. Once the final design is approved, we place the order and manufacturing begins.
We share drawings for review, and you can ask for changes until the layout, materials, finishes and details are right. The approved design becomes the manufacturing specification, and the same team that drew it oversees fabrication. Changes after approval can affect cost and schedule, so we confirm every detail with you before production.
The final layout, finishes and hardware, plus the exact make and model of every appliance, including panel-ready refrigerators and dishwashers, ovens and range hoods. Sink and faucet choices, under-cabinet lighting and outlet locations shape the cabinetry too. Locking these in early is what keeps a project on schedule.
Our crew fine-tunes every door, drawer and panel until the reveals are even and everything moves quietly. Then we walk the finished space with you before final sign-off, the last payment milestone. If anything needs attention later, the people who designed and installed it come back.
About Us Questions
Daniel and Jill Siegel founded LAVISH in 2019. Before that they spent more than a decade designing organized spaces for Austin and San Antonio clients as the owners of California Closets of the Texas Hill Country, and clients kept asking them to take on kitchens and baths. LAVISH is a member of the National Kitchen & Bath Association and was named to Architectural Digest’s AD PRO Directory in 2026.
No. We’re a cabinetry design studio. We design the space with you, build the cabinetry and install it. Your contractor handles demolition, plumbing, electrical, flooring, countertops and general construction, and we coordinate with them so the cabinetry lands where the drawings say it will. If you don’t have a contractor yet, we can refer trade partners we trust.
In our own production facility in Texas, to European frameless standards. The team that designs each project oversees its fabrication, and our own crew installs it. We design it, engineer it, build it and install it. One team. No handoffs.
Nothing gets lost between a factory and an installer, because there’s no gap between them. Specifications are built as drawn, site issues are solved by people who know the design intent, and there’s no finger-pointing. Builders and designers get one accountable partner. Homeowners get fewer surprises.
Flow is what you get when effort disappears: a morning without friction, a meal made without hunting for anything, a drawer that closes without a sound. We design cabinetry around how you live, with everything in its place before you need it, and we build it to European frameless standards so it keeps that feeling for decades.
Flow also describes working with us. One team from design through installation means no handoffs and no chaos. Working with us feels the way our kitchens work.
Portfolio Questions
Yes. Every project in the portfolio was designed for its own space, so no two kitchens or baths are the same. What you’re looking at is the range LAVISH works across: warm natural wood, deep matte lacquer, handleless fronts and integrated appliances, in kitchens, baths, furniture, casework and multifamily residences.
Yes. Any project here can be a starting point. Save the images you love and bring them to your consultation or trade meeting. Our designers will pick out the proportions, finishes and hardware that make them work, then adapt them to your space, your storage and your budget.
Ask us. Send a screenshot with your inquiry or bring it to the showroom, and we’ll identify the material, finish, hardware and construction details. Finishes often look different in person than on a screen, so see samples under real light before you decide.
Yes. We can share kitchens, baths and casework completed with builders and designers, along with trade references. One example is the home tour at The Dominion in San Antonio, where three builders partnered with LAVISH on their kitchens. Ask for examples that match your project type when you request a trade introduction.