08/12/2025
After 100 years of serving the Edwardsville area by designing, selling and servicing beautiful kitchens, it is with a mixture of sadness and deep gratitude that we announce the closing of Kitchenland at the end of this year, 2025. This decision comes not lightly, nor without a thousand memories echoing through our minds and the sense of pride that comes from serving our wonderful community generation after generation.
Our business began as Edwardsville Lumber Company when “Jake” Jacoby and partners incorporated the Company on October 22, 1925. My grandfather, Victor Mueller, started as an employee, and worked to eventually own the business. Through his hard work and commitment, the lumberyard thrived as Edwardsville grew. Through waves of change—wars, economic up and downturns, technological revolutions—we adapted, grew, and prospered along with the community.
Victor’s work ethic was inherited by his son, Richard, who had a different vision for the business, and in the 1960’s he phased out the lumberyard to create Kitchenland and changed the focus entirely to designing and selling beautiful custom kitchens.
No longer would plain Birch plywood cabinets be the standard and choices limited by small cabinet builders. Many different wood species and endless door styles and colors to choose from became the new standard. Customers wanted kitchens to be not just functional, but beautiful as well. Kitchen Designers were needed for the first time. Kitchenland provided that needed service for our area with some of the best designers and quality cabinet lines like Schmidt Cabinet Company.
To our loyal customers, Thank you. You have been the lifeblood of our business and the reason we were able to last through 4 generations. Many of you became lifelong friends. For each time you chose to come through our doors, whether for a simple purchase or a conversation, we thank you, truly. The relationships we have formed are the greatest treasures we take with us.
Though our storefront will darken, our commitment to our neighbors and friends will not waver. We will continue to service what we have sold after we close our doors. The website, kitchen-land.com, will change to reflect this. Ron and Matt will continue to provide the service our customers have learned to expect.
To everyone who has played a role in our business—customers, employees, partners, vendors, and friends—we extend our deepest thanks. You have helped us build something lasting and meaningful, far beyond what we could have imagined when our great-grandpa first opened the doors so many years ago.
With heartfelt thanks,
The Richard Mueller Family and Employees of Kitchenland
