RTA Kitchen Cabinets Explained: Types, Sizes, Costs and How to Plan (2026)

USA Cabinet Store Remodeling Podcast · Oct 3, 2026 · 8m · transcript

What are RTA kitchen cabinets, and are they worth it? We break down materials, sizes, real 10x10 costs and planning in 8 minutes.

Chris and Jessica walk through everything you need before you buy ready to assemble kitchen cabinets: how to tell plywood RTA cabinets from cheap particleboard, the base, wall and tall cabinet types, standard kitchen cabinet sizes, what a 10x10 kitchen really costs, and how to measure and plan your layout.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

0:05 What RTA cabinets are

0:57 Plywood, MDF and particleboard

1:46 Our plywood Shaker line

2:16 Base, wall and tall cabinet types

3:12…