Example quote: a kitchen in painted maple

One kitchen, measured two ways, with every line on the measurement that drives it.

The Harlow residence (example) · 36 lin ft of cabinetry, 48 sq ft of quartz, one island

Tear out and haul away existing 29 lin ft · The 16 ft of base and 13 ft of wall coming out	$1,218.00
Base cabinets, painted maple 16 lin ft · Sink run and range wall, wall to wall	$6,320.00
Wall cabinets, painted maple 13 lin ft · Uppers to the ceiling, less the window	$4,030.00
Island cabinetry 7 lin ft · Finished four sides, so it is its own rate	$3,255.00
Tall pantry or oven cabinet 1 each · One oven stack beside the fridge	$1,250.00
Quartz countertop, fabricated and installed 48 sq ft · 33 ft of 25 inch top plus the island	$3,744.00
Crown molding 13 lin ft · Along the uppers only	$364.00
Toe kick and filler 23 lin ft · Base and island, scribed to the floor	$322.00
Pulls and knobs 28 each · 19 doors and 9 drawers	$504.00
Template and site measure Once · Digital template once the old tops are out	$285.00
Installation labor 36 lin ft · Everything that gets set and levelled	$3,060.00
Delivery Once · Shop to site, one trip	$225.00
Design and drawings 3 hr · Elevations and a cut list	$285.00
Subtotal	$24,862.00
Sales tax 8.25%, on the taxable lines ($19,789.00)	$1,632.59
Total	$26,494.59

An example, not a price list. The customer is invented. Every rate above is a row from the price book a new kitchen cabinetry account is seeded with, and the first thing you would do in the app is replace them with yours -- which is why the total is a shape to compare against, not a quote for your job.

Runs by the foot, tops by the square foot

Thirty-six feet of cabinetry and forty-eight square feet of countertop are two measurements off one kitchen, and neither can be derived from the other. The island is seven of those thirty-six feet and roughly a fifth of the top, because it is finished on four sides and deeper than a base run. A kitchen quoted at one rate per foot is wrong by whichever of the two it ignored, and it is usually the top. There is a calculator for both.

What the install line is measured on

Setting, levelling and scribing is priced on every foot that gets hung -- base, wall and island together -- while tear-out is priced only on the twenty-nine feet that are coming out. They look like the same number on a remodel and they are not, and the gap is the island nobody had before.

Three lines that are not cabinets and are not optional

Template after demolition, delivery from the shop, and the design hours that produced the elevations. All three happen on every kitchen, none of them is in the per foot rate, and the shop that folds them in quietly is the shop that cannot explain its own price when a customer asks.