YGK Kitchen + Design

YGK Kitchen + Design — also trading as Your German Kitchen, Inc. and YGK Boston — is a kitchen cabinetry supplier and design studio at 308 Walnut Street in Newtonville, Massachusetts, incorporated in 2016 and run by president Carsten Richner with two employees on the books. It sells and installs German-made cabinetry, works through design and installation, and lists a typical job cost of $20,000 to $80,000. Besides its own Newton showroom it has displays inside Cabot House Furniture in Framingham, Weymouth and Burlington. The Better Business Bureau gives it an A+ grade, though it is not BBB accredited. The design work is what customers describe. In a May 2018 review, a homeowner said a total redo turned a small kitchen into a beautifully integrated space with far more storage, with cabinets that function perfectly and appliances that fit the openings exactly. A 2013 client had a kitchen designed for a Boston high-rise apartment and described the designer using every inch of the available space. Another 2013 customer credited a recommendation to use an in-stove integrated extractor rather than an overhead hood as the thing that made an island cooktop work in their room. Trade professionals turn up repeatedly in the record. An architect writing in September 2016 said that as a picky client he found the work exceeded his expectations; an interior designer in November 2017 called them meticulous and said they stand behind their product; a designer in November 2018 was on her third kitchen with them. Two accounts are more measured. A March 2016 customer gave four stars, saying that apart from complications with snowstorms and deliveries it all worked out. A March 2014 visitor gave four stars, praised the finishes and the staff staying late on a Friday to produce designs, but ultimately went with a custom cabinet maker instead. The caveat that matters most is age: the newest written account here was posted in November 2018, and all twelve are older than the window a rating leans on. This is a specialist cabinetry source rather than a general remodeler, so ask who is doing the surrounding construction, and ask for recent references before committing.