Austin Elite Cabinets builds custom cabinets in Austin, TX, and is Travis County's trusted specialist in cabinetry made to fit the room, specializing in frameless and face-frame kitchen cabinets, inset cabinetry and walk-in closet systems. We offer refacing for sound boxes and painted MDF door replacements.
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Our team provides built-in bookcases, media walls and garage storage, delivering furniture-grade storage for homes and hard-wearing casework for both residential and commercial projects. The same crew that measures your rooms works from shop drawings you sign off on, installs every box and stands behind the job with a written warranty.
From soft-close hinges and full-extension drawer slides to a complete kitchen, pantry and primary closet package, our team handles every detail. Serving Austin, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood and Lakeway, we plan each project around the house it goes into and the way your household actually uses it.
Why Austin Elite
No catalogue boxes and no handoffs. The people who measure your room are the people who build and install it.
A custom cabinet is built to the measurements of one room, not picked from a catalog of standard widths. Stock and semi-custom lines step their boxes in three-inch increments, which is why so many kitchens end up with filler strips, dead corners and an awkward gap beside the refrigerator. When the boxes are sized to your walls, that lost space turns back into storage.
Face-frame cabinets carry a hardwood frame across the front of each box, roughly an inch and a half wide, which gives the classic American look and a firm place to mount hinges. Frameless construction, the European approach, drops that frame and hangs the doors straight off the box sides on 35mm cup hinges. You gain usable width inside every opening, which matters in a narrow galley or a bathroom where every inch counts.
A full overlay door covers the frame almost completely for a clean, continuous face. A partial overlay shows some frame around each door, the traditional builder look. Inset doors sit flush inside the frame like a piece of fine furniture, and they demand precise fitting because every reveal is visible. We help you choose the one that suits the architecture of the house.
Cabinet boxes are usually plywood or particleboard. Plywood is stronger and handles moisture better, so we steer it toward sink bases, vanities and laundry rooms. MDF makes an excellent painted door because it has no grain to telegraph through the finish, while maple, oak, cherry, alder and ash bring real wood grain to a stained kitchen.
Most calls start with one room and a list of what is wrong with it. Below is every kind of cabinet work we take on across Austin, in the order homeowners ask for it most, with what each job involves and what we look at before we quote it. Each service also has its own page with the full detail.
Kitchen cabinet installation in Austin is the core of what we do. We measure the room ourselves, draw every base, wall and tall cabinet to your walls rather than to catalog widths, and build boxes that close the gaps stock lines leave beside the range and the refrigerator. On install day the crew sets the base run to a level line, shims over the dips that older slab foundations develop, fastens the wall cabinets into studs, and scribes filler and end panels tight to walls that are rarely square. You choose framed or frameless construction, full overlay or inset doors, paint-grade or stain-grade fronts, and the drawer and pull-out layout. The countertop fabricator templates off cabinets that are already level and fixed, which is why a well set kitchen also gets a better stone fit.
A bathroom is the hardest room in the house on cabinetry, because steam, splashes and daily cleaning attack every edge. For bathroom cabinet installation we build vanity boxes from plywood rather than particleboard, seal the sink base, and plan drawers around the plumbing instead of losing the whole cabinet to a trap. Single and double vanities, floating vanities hung on the wall, linen towers and medicine cabinet surrounds are all built to the measured space, with a toe kick and counter height chosen for the people who use the room.
Living rooms collect the things a family actually owns: games, records, chargers, blankets and books. Living room cabinet installation gives them closed storage that looks like it was always part of the house. Typical work includes base cabinets on both sides of a fireplace with shelves above, a long low run under a window band, glass-front display cabinets, and consoles at sideboard height. We match door style and paint or stain to the existing trim, and scribe the cabinetry to stone fireplace surrounds and plaster walls so nothing reads as an add-on.
Working from home turned spare bedrooms into offices, and a desk from a big box store rarely fits the room or the work. Home office cabinet installation covers built-in desks at the right writing and keyboard height, lateral file drawers, printer pull-outs, closed cabinets for paper and equipment, and open shelving above. We plan cord grommets and outlet access before anything is built, leave airflow for computer towers, and size the desk run to the wall so the room works for video calls as well as paperwork.
Walk-in closet custom cabinets replace wire shelving with drawers, double and long hanging, shoe shelving, and a center island where the floor plan allows one. We measure what you own, not just the walls: how many feet of long hanging, how many drawers, where the shoes go. The result is a closet that holds more in the same footprint, with soft-close drawers, adjustable shelves and lighting planned with the cabinetry. Reach-in closets get the same treatment on a smaller scale.
Custom built-in cabinets are cabinetry fixed to the structure of the house: bookcases, library walls, window seats with storage below, mudroom lockers, and storage tucked under stairs or into knee walls. Because a built-in is fastened to the framing and finished to match the room, it can fill alcoves and odd depths that no freestanding piece fits. We draw each built-in to the opening, plan the face frame and crown to the existing trim, and finish it on site so the joints disappear.
Every project we build starts with custom cabinet layout and design, and it is where most of the value is decided. We look at how you cook or work in the room, where the appliances, sink and windows sit, the walkways between runs, and what each cabinet needs to hold. That becomes plan and elevation drawings showing every box, door and drawer with dimensions, plus door style and finish samples. Changes are made on paper, where they cost nothing, and the approved drawing becomes the shop drawing the cabinets are built from.
Luxury cabinet installation is about the details a visitor notices without knowing why: grain that runs continuously across a bank of drawers, inset doors with even reveals, panel-ready appliances that disappear into the cabinetry, and full-height cabinets that meet tall ceilings cleanly. In finished estate homes the work is staged to protect stone, plaster and wood floors, and it is coordinated with the builder, the designer and the stone fabricator so each trade gets what it needs on schedule. The punch list is walked with you before we call the job finished.
Commercial storage cabinets have to survive daily use by many people. We build casework for offices, clinics, break rooms, reception areas and retail back rooms, with durable laminate or wood finishes, commercial-grade hinges and slides, and locks where they are needed. For contractors and property managers we work from the architect's drawings, submit shop drawings for approval, and schedule the install around the other trades so the space is ready to occupy.
Not every kitchen needs new boxes. When the cabinet boxes are sound and the layout works, cabinet refacing applies new veneer to the frames and replaces the doors and drawer fronts, cabinet painting and refinishing changes the color of the existing doors, and cabinet door replacement swaps only the fronts. When the boxes are failing or the layout is the problem, cabinet installation and replacement is the honest answer. We tell you which one the room needs at the design visit.
Kitchen island cabinets add seating, prep space and deep drawer storage in the middle of the room. Inset cabinetry suits traditional and older homes where flush doors match the period of the house. Pantry cabinets with pull-out organizers replace a deep closet where cans get lost, and wet bar and butler's pantry cabinets give entertaining its own space with glass storage and an under-counter fridge.
Garage cabinets get materials chosen for Central Texas heat and humidity and keep storage off the floor. Laundry room and mudroom cabinets put detergent above the machines and a bench, cubbies and hooks by the back door. Built-in entertainment centers and media walls hide cables and equipment behind cabinetry sized to the screen.
For builders and developers we supply builder cabinet packages for new construction and multifamily cabinet packages for apartment and condominium units, repeating one approved spec across many kitchens and baths. Office breakroom and reception millwork rounds out the commercial work, built to the finish schedule the designer sets.
We do not publish a price list, because two kitchens of the same size can land far apart once the choices are made. What we can tell you is exactly what moves the number, so nothing in the quote surprises you.
The way to a real number is a free in-home measure. We walk the space, note the conditions and come back with a written quote tied to the drawings.
The process
A good cabinet job is mostly decided before a single panel is cut. Our process keeps every decision in front of you.
Tell us the room, what bothers you about it and roughly when you want the work done. We will tell you honestly whether you need new boxes or whether a lighter service will do.
The installer who will do the work comes to the house, measures every wall, checks the floor for level and notes plumbing, vents and outlets. There is no trip to a store and no guessing from a sketch.
You receive drawings that show each box, door and drawer, with dimensions. Nothing gets built until you have approved them, and changes are made on paper, where they are cheap.
Once the drawings are signed, the boxes are built to order. The same crew that measured sets them, levels them on adjustable feet, hangs and adjusts the doors, and fits the hardware.
We walk the finished room with you, adjust anything that needs it and leave you with a written warranty.
Austin sits on the Balcones Escarpment. West of it, rolling hills and limestone bedrock shape hillside lots, split-level plans and walls that are rarely perfectly square. East of it, the ground flattens out over heavy clay and loam. Older foundations on either side show up in a cabinet install as floors that dip and walls that lean, and a box built to exact site measurements handles them far better than a standard size forced into place.
Heat matters too. Austin tops 90 degrees on well over a hundred days a year, and garages, laundry rooms and lake houses see real swings in temperature and humidity. MDF can swell if it is left unsealed in a damp space, so we match the box and door material to the room rather than using one spec for the whole house.
We cover Austin and the west and southwest side of Travis County. That includes Rollingwood, West Lake Hills, Sunset Valley, Shady Hollow, Barton Creek, Lost Creek, Steiner Ranch, The Hills, Lakeway and Volente. Each has its own mix of house ages and styles, from mid-century ranches to lake homes to new custom builds, and our locations page explains what that means for a cabinet job in each one.
Three things set the way we work apart. The person who measures is the person who installs, so nothing is lost between the tape measure and the finished room. You approve shop drawings before anything is built, so what arrives is what you agreed to. And the work is covered by a written warranty.
The design visit happens in your home, where the light, the floor and the way you cook are all in front of us. When you are ready, call and book your free in-home measure.
What we build
Twenty-three services, from a single vanity to a whole-home millwork package, plus commercial casework.
Kitchen Cabinets
Bathroom Vanity Cabinets
Living Room Cabinet Installation
Home Office Built-Ins
Custom Closets
Built-In Cabinets & Bookcases
Custom Cabinet Layout & Design
Luxury Cabinet Installation
Commercial Cabinets & Casework
New Construction Builder Cabinet Packages
Entertainment Centers & Media Walls
Cabinet Door & Drawer Front Replacement
Cabinet Installation & Replacement
Cabinet Painting & Refinishing
Cabinet Refacing
Garage Cabinets
Inset Cabinetry
Kitchen Island Cabinets
Laundry Room & Mudroom Cabinets
Multifamily & Apartment Cabinet Packages
Office Breakroom & Reception Millwork
Pantry Cabinets & Pull-Out Organizers
Wet Bar & Butler's Pantry CabinetsQuestions
It depends on linear footage, box material, door style, species and finish, inset or overlay doors, hardware, and the condition of the room. We do not quote from a photo. A free in-home measure gives you a written quote tied to drawings.
Stock cabinets can ship in about a week, but custom boxes are built to order after you approve the drawings, so the timeline runs longer. We give you a firm schedule once the drawings are signed.
If the boxes are solid and the layout works, refacing or painting can give you a new look for less. If the boxes are water damaged, sagging or the layout is wrong for how you live, replacement is the better investment. We check the boxes during the measure and tell you which applies.
We cover Austin and the surrounding west and southwest communities in Travis County, including West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Lost Creek, Lakeway, Steiner Ranch and Volente. Call with your address and we will confirm.
We measure every wall, check the floor and walls for level and plumb, note plumbing and electrical locations, and talk through door style, finish and storage needs. You then receive drawings and a written quote to review.
Yes. Every installation is covered by a written warranty, and we walk you through what it covers when we hand over the drawings and quote.
Texas does not issue a statewide contractor license for cabinet work, so a license number is not the test. Ask us about insurance on the call and we will answer directly before any measure is booked.
Yes. Inset doors, face frames, stain-grade hardwoods and traditional door profiles let new cabinetry sit comfortably in an older home, and because every box is built to your measurements, uneven walls and floors are handled in the design rather than hidden with trim.
Free in-home design visit across Austin and the west side. We call you back to set a time.
Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
