09/01/2026
If you're about to put a deposit on custom cabinets, here's a question worth asking first: where does that money sit while the shop draws your job?
At Sunshine Alliance, the contract comes first — it binds us to you and you to us. The deposit then goes into a separate account, not our operations account, and it waits there. We don't order a sheet of material until you've signed off on the shop drawings. Once you do, everything is purchased on a PO tied to your job, so every piece is tracked and identified to your name.
We've been building since 2002, through more than one downturn and through the COVID shutdown. We've never handed a job off and we've never stopped a project halfway through.
The part people underestimate is how easily a small operation disappears. Two thousand square feet, a few people, financed equipment — that shop can close on a Friday and reopen under a different name. Our machinery is paid off in full. It doesn't move overnight, and neither do we.
So walk the floor before you sign. Then ask for references on a job the size of yours.
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Full article: https://www.alliancewoodworking.com/what-happens-to-my-cabinet-deposit/
Where your deposit sits, why nothing is ordered until you approve shop drawings, and how to tell if a cabinet shop can actually finish your job.
