Candia, New Hampshire
Bring your kitchen back to life.
New fridge or dishwasher that doesn’t match your cabinets? We build the panel that does. Plus spray finishing and full kitchen refinish jobs — in your shop, in your kitchen, or in ours. Eighteen years at the bench, available now.
What we get called for most
New fridge. Same old kitchen. Nothing matches.
We build the panel that makes it match.
You replaced a dishwasher, or a fridge, or the whole run of appliances — and now there’s a stainless slab where a cabinet door used to be, or a panel that came with the appliance in a colour and profile that has nothing to do with the kitchen around it. The cabinets are fine. The kitchen is fine. One door is wrong, and the shop that built it closed, or the door style was discontinued, or nobody wants to quote a job that small. That is the job we want.
Panel-ready appliances
Dishwashers, fridge and freezer fronts, wine coolers, trash pull-outs. We cut the panel to the appliance manufacturer’s spec, in your door’s profile and species, and finish it to match what’s on your wall right now — including how that finish has aged.
Discontinued & one-off doors
A single door damaged, a cabinet added, a style the original shop no longer runs. We copy the profile off the door you already have and build its twin — one door, or a run of them. No minimum, no catalogue to pick from.
What we need from you
One existing door we can match against is worth more than any photo — loan us a spare or a cabinet door you can live without for a week. Failing that: a daylight photo of the run, the appliance make and model, and the opening dimensions. We’ll tell you honestly what we can match and what will read as new.
An honest word on matching: a finish that has lived in a kitchen for ten years has shifted — sun, steam, cooking, cleaners. A brand-new panel sprayed to the original formula will not look like its neighbours. We colour-match to the doors as they are today, not as they left the factory, and on a run that has aged hard we will tell you up front if refinishing the whole kitchen is the better call than chasing one panel.
Why "Abnormal Things"
The story so far
I've spent eighteen years building cabinets by hand, and another fourteen-plus years on the other side of the business — sourcing panel goods, hardware, and finishing systems for shops just like the one I'm building now. I've seen this trade from both ends: the bench and the supply chain.
Cousint's Custom Cabinets is what comes next. We're raising a dedicated shop on twelve acres in Candia, New Hampshire — timber included. A five-head moulder, a CNC router, and a laminate & veneer press are going in alongside a partnership with ApprenticeshipNH, so the next generation of cabinetmakers gets a real shop to learn in, not just a classroom. The building itself is designed to run on solar power and cold-climate heat pumps, with big, well-insulated windows for natural light and a view of the property we're building on.
My family and I bought this land in 2019, right before the pandemic hit, moving up from Connecticut for a job. It sits on Patten Hill — named for the family that settled this ground back in the 1700s — and it's still mostly woods today: old stone walls, a couple of ancient apple trees and lilacs, and the footprint of a one-room schoolhouse and farmstead that stood here a century ago and shows up on none of the maps since. Everything we're building starts from here.
The second half of the name isn't a joke. If it's made of wood and it's unusual, we'll figure out how to build it — right now that means a 14-foot stitch-and-glue skiff taking shape alongside the cabinet work. Bring us your kitchen. Bring us your weird idea. We're built for both.
The land, from above
Twelve acres on Patten Hill, still mostly forest — the driveway and house you can pick out in the trees, with the rest waiting on the shop.
Aerial imagery: USGS/NAIP (public domain).
What we do now
Kitchen refinishing & appliance panel matching
Finishing is what we do first and what we do best. Everything below is available today — no shop build required, no waiting on 2027.
Finishing & Kitchen Refinish
Spray finishing for doors, drawer fronts, and millwork, color matched to what you already have, plus full kitchen refinish jobs start to finish. Done in your shop, your kitchen, or ours.
Appliance Panel Matching
New dishwasher, fridge, or range and the face panel doesn't match your cabinets anymore? We cut and finish a replacement panel to match your existing style.
Millwork & Custom Mouldings
Running our own moulding profiles means matching existing trim, or creating a profile that doesn't exist yet.
Custom Milling
Rough lumber and live-edge slabs, sourced through local wholesalers, milled to the dimensions your project actually needs.
How it works
Your shop, your kitchen, or ours
You don’t need a booth of your own to get a sprayed finish.
Finishing is the step that holds up the most jobs. It wants clean air, a stable temperature, somewhere for parts to hang while they cure, and somebody who has sprayed enough doors to know what a coating is going to do before it does it. Most shops either can’t give up the room or don’t want to own the problem. So we work wherever the job actually is.
In your shop
The usual arrangement, and the cheapest one for you. We come to your shop with our own gun, our own coatings, and our own masking, and spray your doors, faces, and millwork in the space you already have. No freight, no parts leaving your building, no booth standing idle the rest of the month.
In your kitchen
Full kitchen refinish jobs for homeowners. Doors and drawer fronts come off and get sprayed properly; boxes and face frames get done in place, masked and controlled. Your kitchen stays where it is, and you keep the cabinets you already paid for.
In our shop
No space, no power, or a job that needs more control than a jobsite can give it? Send the parts to us. Racked, sprayed, and cured here, then packed back to you. Best fit for small batches, sample doors, and appliance panels.
Also available
Cut-to-size panels & parts — by quote
The precision work most contractors and DIYers can’t do cleanly at home. Quoted per job rather than off a price list — send us the sizes and we’ll come back with a number.
Panels, Rips & Closet Parts
Cabinet and closet panels cut to your exact dimensions, chip-free, edgebanded on the edges you choose, with 32mm shelf-pin drilling at the industry standard 5mm hole, 32mm on-center, 37mm setback. Long edgebanded rips up to 12′ for crosscutting on site. We cut it — you build it.
Door, Drawer & Face Frame Stock
5/8" × 2-1/4" drawer-box blanks from 14" up to 10′, dadoed on one long edge. Face frame stock in square, beaded, or custom profile. Prefinished drawer bottoms cut to size or by the full sheet. Baltic birch or solid maple, clear-coat finished.
Proof in the work
Built to last, before Cousint's and since
Flip Side Pinball Bar — Westerly, RI
Before Cousint's existed, these were the same two hands: a full bar build-out set into a stone-walled space in Westerly — custom bar top, cabinetry and millwork, built in place. Flip Side ran as a beloved local pinball bar from 2016 until COVID closed it for good. It's the clearest proof of the craftsmanship this shop is built on.
Photos courtesy of Flip Side Pinball Bar (Mark & Dana Carvey).
Framed & built in place
Solid ash bar top, hand-finished
Full Home Renovation — Mystic, CT
Cabinetry throughout the kitchen and bath, built and finished on site — plus siding, the porch, and all the trim in Azek, solid-surface countertops, and a full refinish of the original wood floors. Top to bottom, inside and out.
Built-in ovens & custom cabinetry
Custom linen tower, built to fit
In the shop right now
Project Corsair
Our dedicated shop is still under construction, so the cabinetry side of the gallery is just getting started. Right now, the build getting the most bench time is Project Corsair — a 14-foot stitch-and-glue skiff, built the same way we'll build your cabinets: by hand, with real attention paid to the joinery. Full project photos are coming as our first cabinetry jobs wrap up.
Start a project
Get a Quote
Tell me about the project — dimensions, timeline, wood preferences, whatever you've got. I personally review every request before we start cutting anything.
Have photos or a sketch? Mention it in the description and send them separately to rkennedy2428@gmail.com.