Choice Cabinet helps families across Northeast Ohio reimagine the heart of their home

By Ken McEntee

For many families, filling the home with the sweet aroma of freshly baked cookies and other holiday confections is as important a Christmas tradition as trimming the tree and curling up in front of a crackling fire while singing your favorite carols.

And the baking’s even better when you assemble three generations of family to share in the mixing and decorating, opines Grandma Dottie Laurinaitis, a nationally acclaimed kitchen designer and matriarch of the family that owns and operates Choice Cabinet.

As the future operators of the family enterprise may have learned during a recent cookie bake, the operation goes a lot smoother in a well-functioning, wisely designed kitchen.

“Family is the heart of the holidays and the kitchen is the heart of the home,” Dottie declares. “The kitchen is where families congregate to cook, eat and enjoy each other’s company.”

Although the holidays are approaching quickly, it isn’t too late to have a brand-new kitchen in place in time for the feasting and entertaining, emphasizes Jessica Ricard, Dottie’s daughter and Choice Cabinet’s product and quality manager. “With an inventory of more than 50,000 cabinets at our Bedford Heights corporate headquarters and warehouse, we can usually deliver your new cabinets within days—instead of weeks,” Jessica promises.

No other cabinet maker can claim to be Cleveland’s own, insists Grandpa Anthony Laurinaitis, founder of the company.

“High quality cabinets at an affordable price with quick availability have made Choice Cabinet so popular and successful,” he says. “That’s why our durable, solid-built cabinets are used in so many homes, condos and apartments locally as well as shipped throughout the Eastern U.S. and Canada.”

Many of the well-known large apartment complexes in the Cleveland area, such as East Bank, Terminal Tower, One University Circle, The Halle Building, The Statler and many others, have kitchens featuring Choice Cabinet cabinets.

The first step toward your new holiday kitchen may be a visit to Choice Cabinet’s Warrensville Heights showroom, which displays inspiring kitchen vignettes that show off the company’s variety of cabinet styles, colors and features—along with a line of granite and quartz countertops. While there, you might also take advantage of Choice Cabinets’ complimentary design services.

Designers Claudine DiSanto, Tina Figueroa and Nick Villani share a passion for creating gorgeous and functional kitchens.

“I am 100% Italian, so I grew up in a kitchen full of people,” Claudine says. “One thing I’ve known all my life is that a kitchen has to be functional. It can’t simply look good. There has to be a rhyme and reason for everything, or it just doesn’t work.”

Kind of like a family business, Dottie says, observing the company’s flour-coated future generation, grouped together on a Choice Cabinet island.

“This business is about them,” she continues. “It’s all about family.”

Through the end of the year, Choice Cabinet is offering a complimentary under-mounted stainless-steel sink with a cabinet purchase of at least $3,000.

You can start your kitchen project with a visit to the Choice Cabinet showroom, located at 4856 Richmond Road, in Warrensville Heights. The showroom is open Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., or by appointment by calling 216-378-2834. You can find more information by visiting ChoiceCabinet.com.