Medallion Cabinets

Designed Around Your Home. Not the Other Way Around.

A great kitchen design should not begin with a list of limitations.

That is one of the reasons Pandora Kitchens loves designing with Medallion Cabinetry. Its extensive selection of cabinet configurations, door styles, wood species, finishes, decorative details, and modifications gives our designers the freedom to create around your home, your style, and the way you live.

From an approachable renovation using Medallion Silver to a highly personalized Medallion Gold kitchen, traditional Platinum inset cabinetry, or contemporary Medallion Frameless cabinetry, Medallion offers solutions for a wide range of designs and budgets.

At Pandora Kitchens, we provide professional Medallion cabinet design for homeowners throughout Maryland and Northern Virginia, helping turn thousands of individual choices into one cohesive space.

(Gold) Bella in Natural on walnut, (Platinum) Bella in Nocturne on Signa Core

(Gold) Middleton Flat Panel in Safari, Eucalyptus, and French Roast on knotty alder; with Catania Oil Rubbed Bronze and clear glass

Venice Raised Panel in Macchiato on maple

(Gold) Madison Raised Panel in Cottage White Dry Brush on maple

  • Medallion Gold

    Where Design Freedom Expands

    Medallion Gold is where the possibilities expand considerably.

    Gold combines framed cabinet construction with a much broader selection of door styles, wood species, finishes, decorative enhancements, cabinet configurations, and customization possibilities.

    From a designer's perspective, this flexibility is extremely valuable.

    Instead of compromising an idea because a particular cabinet, panel, molding, dimension, or architectural detail isn't available, Gold often gives us another way to accomplish the design.

    For highly personalized kitchens, furniture-inspired cabinetry, elaborate islands, appliance panels, custom hoods, and architectural focal points, Medallion Gold gives us an exceptional design toolbox.

  • Medallion Silver

    Quality, Selection & Smart Value

    Medallion Silver is an excellent starting point for homeowners who want Medallion quality and attractive design choices without requiring the extensive customization available in the upper collections.

    Silver uses traditional framed cabinet construction and provides a carefully selected range of door styles, finishes, and cabinet options.

    For many kitchens, those choices provide everything necessary to create a beautiful and functional space.

    Silver can be especially attractive for a straightforward kitchen renovation where quality, appearance, and budget all matter.

  • Medallion Platinum

    The Beauty of Inset Cabinetry

    For homeowners drawn to the craftsmanship and appearance of fine furniture, Medallion Platinum offers inset cabinetry.

    With inset construction, cabinet doors and drawer fronts sit within the face frame rather than covering it. The precise reveals create a refined, tailored appearance that is particularly beautiful in traditional, transitional, and furniture-inspired kitchens.

    Platinum also gives our designers extensive opportunities for personalization.

    Finished cabinet sides, decorative panels, moldings, furniture details, glass cabinetry, islands, and focal-point cabinetry can all become important parts of the overall composition.

    When every detail matters, Platinum gives us the ability to design at that level.

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Medallion offers four cabinetry collections—Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Frameless—giving you the flexibility to match the right construction, style, and customization to your project.

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Clean Lines. More Interior Space.

Medallion Frameless offers another direction entirely.

Without a traditional face frame, frameless cabinet construction creates clean lines, excellent interior accessibility, and the nearly seamless full-overlay appearance many homeowners prefer.

It works beautifully with contemporary kitchens, slab doors, modern finishes, and minimalist architecture.

But frameless cabinetry does not have to mean ultra-modern.

The right combination of doors, finishes, countertops, hardware, and architectural details can create contemporary, transitional, or European-inspired interiors.

It simply gives us another way to design.

Choosing Medallion does not mean choosing one particular kitchen style.

Medallion offers an extensive selection of flat-panel, recessed-panel, raised-panel, beaded-panel, and specialty cabinet doors.

That range allows us to create everything from understated contemporary cabinetry to elaborate traditional furniture-inspired kitchens.

Even a relatively simple door can produce dramatically different results depending on the wood species, finish, overlay, molding, hardware, and surrounding architectural details.

That is why we think of Medallion as more than a cabinet brand.

It is a complete design system.

Raised, Recessed, Flat & Specialty Panels

Cabinet doors establish much of the visual language of a kitchen.

Medallion's broad door selection gives us the flexibility to choose the right level of detail for the architecture of the home.

It also creates opportunities to introduce subtle variations within a kitchen.

For example, a focal-point cabinet, island, hutch, or range area can sometimes receive a different center-panel treatment while maintaining the overall character of the primary door style.

This allows one element to stand apart without making the kitchen look disconnected.

Standard paint and stain are not the only possibilities.

Medallion offers specialty finish treatments capable of introducing additional depth, texture, and handcrafted character.

The Appaloosa finishes are a good example.

These specialty treatments can give cabinetry a more layered, furniture-like appearance and can be particularly effective on islands, hutches, inset cabinetry, and architectural focal points.

For the right project, the finish itself becomes part of the design.

From Classic Maple to Walnut & Oak

Natural wood gives cabinetry depth and character that cannot be duplicated by paint alone.

Medallion offers an impressive variety of wood species, including options such as maple, cherry, oak, quartersawn oak, hickory, knotty alder, and walnut.

Each species creates a different visual effect.

Maple provides a smooth, refined appearance. Cherry develops rich natural character. Hickory creates dramatic grain variation. Walnut introduces warmth and sophistication, while quartersawn oak can work beautifully in both traditional and contemporary interiors.

Choosing the wood species is only the beginning.

The stain and finish placed over that wood determine what the final kitchen becomes.

Color Is Part of the Design

Medallion's finish selection is one of the reasons we enjoy designing with the line.

Homeowners can choose from an extensive palette of painted finishes, natural and stained woods, and specialty finish treatments.

This makes it possible to create subtle monochromatic kitchens or intentionally combine complementary finishes.

A kitchen might have painted perimeter cabinets with a stained wood island.

Another design might use a different finish for a range hood, beverage center, hutch, or furniture-style focal point.

The goal is not simply to select a cabinet color.

The goal is to create a complete color palette for the room.
(Platinum) Osborn in Pistachio on maple

(Platinum) Osborn in Pistachio on maple

Chai Latte on maple; Island Ends in Amesbury

Chai Latte on maple; Island Ends in Amesbury

(Platinum) Loxley in Cappuccino with Burnt Sienna Glaze

(Platinum) Loxley in Cappuccino with Burnt Sienna Glaze

Chelsea in White Chocolate on maple and Ginger Snap on cherry

Chelsea in White Chocolate on maple and Ginger Snap on cherry

Providence in Dove Appaloosa on maple, and Peppercorn on cherry

Providence in Dove Appaloosa on maple, and Peppercorn on cherry

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Contemporary Materials

Medallion isn't limited to traditional painted and stained hardwood cabinetry. Depending on the collection and door style, contemporary material choices can include options such as acrylic high-gloss, acrylic matte, bamboo, thermofoil, textured materials, and other specialty surfaces. These materials open an entirely different design direction. They allow us to create sleek contemporary kitchens while still taking advantage of Medallion's cabinet planning and customization capabilities.

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Custom Color Possibilities

When Almost the Right Color Isn't Good Enough Sometimes the perfect color already exists somewhere else in the home. It may be a favorite piece of furniture, a wall color, an architectural feature, or another material the homeowner wants the cabinetry to complement. For qualifying projects, Medallion's custom finish capabilities can provide opportunities to create cabinetry around a specific color reference rather than settling for the closest standard finish. That kind of flexibility becomes particularly important when we are designing a highly coordinated interior. Instead of redesigning the room around the cabinet color, we can explore designing the cabinet color around the room.

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Moldings & Architectural Details

The Details That Make Cabinetry Look Built in Kitchen design does not end with the cabinet box. Crown molding, light molding, finished ends, furniture bases, decorative legs, valances, panels, and transitions can determine whether cabinetry simply fills a wall or looks like it belongs to the architecture of the home. Medallion provides an extensive selection of decorative and architectural components. That gives us the ability to design around different ceiling heights, cabinet depths, islands, hutches, range areas, and architectural conditions instead of relying on one generic molding solution. These details may appear small individually. Together, they can completely change the finished kitchen.

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Custom Panels & Integrated Details

Finished cabinet sides matter. Island backs matter. Refrigerator panels matter. Dishwasher panels matter. The transition from one cabinet depth to another matters. These details are sometimes treated as secondary elements, but in a well-designed kitchen they are part of the architecture. Medallion gives us numerous panel and decorative options for creating finished refrigerator surrounds, integrated appliances, decorative island backs, finished cabinet ends, and custom architectural details. When these elements are designed correctly, the kitchen begins to look like one complete composition rather than a collection of individual cabinet boxes.

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Create a Furniture-Look Kitchen

Islands, Hutches, Legs & Focal Points One of our favorite ways to design with Medallion is to stop thinking of every cabinet as simply a cabinet. An island can become a piece of furniture. A beverage center can become a hutch. A pantry wall can become an architectural feature. A range hood can become the focal point of the entire kitchen. Decorative legs, finished panels, molding, glass doors, furniture bases, and specialty details allow us to develop these areas individually while keeping them connected to the overall kitchen. This is where Medallion's large selection of design options becomes particularly valuable.

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Integrated Cabinet Sides

One detail we particularly appreciate in higher-level Medallion designs is the ability to create beautifully integrated cabinet sides. Instead of simply attaching a basic finished panel to the exposed end of a cabinet, the side can become part of the furniture design. This is especially effective with inset cabinetry, islands, hutches, and cabinets that terminate in highly visible areas. It is a relatively small detail that can make an enormous visual difference.

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The cooking area is often the natural focal point of a kitchen.

Instead of treating the range hood as something that simply needs to fit between two cabinets, we can make it an important architectural element.

Depending on the selected design, Medallion components can be used to create substantial furniture-style hood treatments coordinated with the surrounding cabinetry.

Panels, moldings, decorative details, and contrasting finishes can further define the area.

The result can completely change the character of the kitchen.

Glass cabinetry provides another opportunity to create visual interest.

Strategically positioned glass doors can break up a long run of solid cabinetry, highlight a hutch or display area, or make upper cabinetry feel lighter.

Different glass and decorative insert possibilities allow these areas to become part of the overall design.

We generally use these details selectively.

The objective is not to decorate every cabinet.

It is to create emphasis where emphasis belongs.

Beautiful Cabinetry Still Has to Perform

Design freedom means very little if the cabinetry cannot handle everyday life.

Medallion offers construction options that can include plywood cabinet components, substantial cabinet sides, dovetail drawer boxes, soft-close operation, and heavy-duty drawer systems.

For projects requiring upgraded construction, we can specify the appropriate cabinet options based on how the kitchen will actually be used.

The objective is not to select every upgrade available.

It is to put the money into the features that make a meaningful difference.

A beautiful kitchen that does not function well is not a successful kitchen.

Our design process considers how you actually use the room.

Where should the pots and pans go?

Where should trays and cutting boards be stored?

Where should trash and recycling live?

Where will small appliances go?

Where does the coffee station belong?

Medallion provides numerous cabinet configurations and interior storage accessories that allow us to solve those questions.

We use those options selectively rather than filling a kitchen with accessories simply because they are available.

Function comes first.

There is an important difference between having hundreds of choices and having useful choices.

As kitchen designers, what we appreciate about Medallion is its ability to help us solve design problems.

A cabinet may require a special dimension.

An exposed side may need a furniture treatment.

An island may need an entirely different architectural character.

A focal cabinet may need to coordinate with the kitchen without being identical to it.

The broader Medallion collections give us considerably more room to address those situations.

That allows the design to lead the cabinet selection instead of the cabinet limitations controlling the design.

Design the Entire Home

Medallion's flexibility becomes even more valuable when cabinetry moves beyond the kitchen.

The same design language can be carried into home offices, libraries, bars, entertainment centers, mudrooms, laundry rooms, bathrooms, and custom built-ins.

A home office can combine base cabinetry, bookcases, panels, moldings, and furniture details to create a truly built-in environment.

A library can share the same wood and finish as an adjoining kitchen.

A dining-room hutch can visually connect two living spaces.

Instead of purchasing unrelated pieces of furniture for different rooms, cabinetry can become part of the architecture throughout the home.

More Than Kitchen Cabinetry

Medallion also gives us extensive possibilities for bathroom design.

Traditional furniture-style vanities can provide the appearance of freestanding furniture while maintaining the storage and functionality of built-in cabinetry.

For contemporary bathrooms, collections such as Mezza introduce a completely different aesthetic with clean lines and furniture-inspired styling.

This allows us to coordinate bathrooms with the rest of the home while still giving each space its own identity.

Kitchen drawers work hard.

Pots, pans, dishes, small appliances, and cookware can place considerable weight on a drawer system.

Medallion offers heavy-duty Quiet Close drawer options capable of supporting substantial loads, with certain configurations rated at approximately 135 pounds.

That makes large drawer bases especially useful for cookware and other heavy kitchen items.

A beautiful drawer should also feel substantial every time you open it.

Start With the Design, Then Choose the Right Collection

A Medallion kitchen does not have to mean one particular price level.

That is one of the advantages of having multiple cabinetry collections.

Silver provides an attractive entry into Medallion with a more focused selection.

Gold expands the possibilities for customization, finishes, materials, doors, and architectural details.

Platinum introduces inset construction and another level of furniture-inspired design.

Frameless provides a clean contemporary alternative with excellent interior accessibility.

Our job is to determine where your budget makes the greatest difference.

Sometimes an upgrade is worth every dollar.

Sometimes it isn't.

Good kitchen planning means knowing the difference.

Medallion cabinetry is built to order, so homeowners should allow appropriate time for manufacturing.

Based on our normal experience, Medallion Silver is often approximately five to six weeks, while Medallion Gold is commonly around six to seven weeks.

A Platinum inset kitchen may require approximately seven weeks.

These are planning estimates rather than guaranteed manufacturing dates. Actual production times can change depending on the finish, modifications, complexity of the order, factory schedule, and time of year.

Once an order is in production and additional scheduling information becomes available, Pandora Kitchens can provide the customer with an updated estimated delivery window.
Direct Delivery to Your Home

Once your Medallion cabinetry is ready, Pandora Kitchens coordinates direct delivery to the customer's home.

Before the order is released, we carefully review the design, cabinet specifications, door style, finish, accessories, and applicable modifications.

Because these cabinets are built specifically for each project, getting the details right before production is extremely important.

Our goal is to make the transition from design to ordering to delivery as organized as possible.

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See the Cabinet in Your Own Home

A computer screen cannot accurately reproduce every wood grain, paint tone, stain variation, or sheen.

That is why seeing an actual cabinet door before making an important finish decision can be extremely valuable.

Pandora Kitchens customers can order up to two Medallion sample doors to evaluate the door style, wood species, color, and finish inside their own home.

For qualifying projects containing more than ten cabinets, the cost of up to two eligible sample doors can be credited toward the cabinet purchase.

This gives you an opportunity to compare the actual cabinetry with your flooring, countertop, backsplash, wall color, furniture, and natural lighting before making your final selection.

Professional Medallion Kitchen Design
Thousands of Options Only Matter If You Know How to Use Them

Medallion gives designers an enormous toolbox.

But more choices do not automatically create a better kitchen.

The value comes from knowing which choices to use—and which ones to leave out.

At Pandora Kitchens, we consider proportion, symmetry, appliance placement, storage, workflow, cabinet construction, molding transitions, exposed ends, focal points, finishes, and the relationship between the cabinetry and the architecture of the room.

Then we use Medallion's capabilities to execute that design.

Not the reverse.

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Serving Maryland & Northern Virginia

If you are considering Medallion Cabinets for a kitchen, bathroom, home office, library, bar, or custom built-in, start with the design.

Bring us your measurements, architectural plans, inspiration photographs, or simply an idea of what you want the space to become.

Pandora Kitchens will help you explore the appropriate Medallion collection, construction, door styles, wood species, finishes, storage solutions, and customization possibilities.

Then we can turn those choices into a design created specifically for your home.

Silver. Gold. Platinum. Frameless.
One cabinet manufacturer. Thousands of design possibilities.

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