Leanne Ford Adds Her Touch To Elegant Cabinet Fronts

The company, which started as a one-man woodshop dubbed Handmade (now Semihandmade), switched up to become (as its new moniker suggests) a maker of craft-forward add-ons to big-box-store products. Gracing IKEA kitchen cabinetry with custom fronts was just the start. Now, with Semihandmade Cabinet, specifiers have the option to add American-made plywood cabinet boxes, too. The first designer collaboration for the range is with interiors megastar Leanne Ford, working in conjunction with small woodshops around the U.S., and encompasses a tight edit of traditional and modern profiles: Shaker, Slab, and Frame. All fronts are available in either an aged white-oak finish, achieved by applying a specially formulated nonyellowing whitewash stain, or painted a warm, creamy hue based on Ford’s favorite shade of white: Shoji by Sherwin-Williams.