Rollingwood · West Lake Hills · Shady Hollow · Barton Creek
Austin Elite Cabinets builds custom cabinets in Sunset Valley, TX, and is a trusted Travis County cabinetry shop specializing in ranch kitchen replacement, kitchen islands and garage cabinets for acre-lot homes. We offer pantry pull-outs and laundry room storage.
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Our team provides face-frame and frameless construction, delivering a kitchen that fits a long single-story plan for homes and practical, lasting storage for both residential and commercial projects. Before a single panel is cut, our own installer measures the house, you approve the shop drawings, and the finished work carries a written warranty.
From matching an addition's new cabinetry to the door profile in the original wing to a full-house package for a new build on an acre, our team handles every detail. Serving Sunset Valley, Shady Hollow and Rollingwood, we keep one crew on your project from the first tape measure to the final inspection.
Why Austin Elite
No catalogue boxes and no handoffs. The people who measure your room are the people who build and install it.
Sunset Valley started in the early 1950s, when brothers Clarence and M. H. Flournoy bought land outside Austin for a residential development, and it incorporated on September 17, 1954, with Clinton Vilven as its first mayor. The city kept a one-acre minimum for residential lots, and Austin grew up around it until Sunset Valley became an enclave: a separate city, about five miles southwest of downtown, entirely surrounded by Austin.
Because the lots are large and the city is small, the housing is a short list of very individual homes rather than a subdivision of repeated floor plans. Local descriptions run from mid-century ranch homes to custom new construction estates, and building here clustered in two waves, one before 1990 and a second in the 2000s. No two kitchens are laid out alike, so there is no standard Sunset Valley cabinet job. Each one is measured and drawn from scratch.
An acre gives an owner room to add on rather than move, so a cabinet job here can just as easily sit where an old wing meets a new one. That creates a matching problem the owner of a tract home never faces.
If the original kitchen stays and a new family room, bar or primary suite is added, the new cabinetry should relate to what is already there. We look at the door profile, the frame construction and the finish on the existing cabinets and draw the new work to match, or to contrast on purpose if the addition is meant to read as new.
If the kitchen is due as well, replacing it during the addition lets one design run through the whole house. The long, single-story plans typical of a ranch suit a kitchen that opens toward the new space, with an island that works as the hinge between the two.
Where an addition joins the original slab, floor heights can differ. We check levels on both sides at the measure and plan the base cabinets so the countertop line runs true across the joint.
An acre leaves space for a larger garage, a workshop or an outbuilding, and those rooms deserve cabinetry built for them rather than leftover kitchen boxes. For Sunset Valley homes we build:
Plywood boxes are the sensible choice in a garage or laundry, where humidity and the occasional spill would ruin particleboard.
TSHA describes Sunset Valley as a wooded valley among rolling hills, and the Gaines Creek Greenbelt runs along its northern edge with a connection to the Barton Creek Greenbelt. Homes set under mature trees get softer, greener light than an open subdivision, and that changes how a cabinet finish looks through the day.
We bring samples out and hold them against your walls, floors and windows before you choose.
A Sunset Valley project can mean one kitchen or cabinetry in four rooms, so a published figure would mislead more people than it helped. What actually decides the cost:
Once we have walked the house and measured every room in scope, you receive a written figure. The first step is a free in-home measure.
Sunset Valley takes every building permit application through its GovBuilt portal. A permit stays active for 180 days and expires on the 181st if the project has not received an inspection, or 180 days after the last inspection that showed progress. When the permitted work is complete, a final inspection is required and a certificate of occupancy is issued.
That activity clock matters on a project with an addition, where the cabinets are one of the last trades in. We agree the build and install dates with your contractor early, so cabinet delivery lines up with the inspections rather than leaving the permit idle while the kitchen waits. If you are replacing cabinets without other work, ask the city's development services whether your scope needs a permit at all.
The process is the same for one room or several. We visit, measure every room in scope, and note plumbing, electrical and floor conditions. You receive shop drawings with elevations for each wall and a door sample in the chosen finish. Once you approve, the cabinets are built to those drawings and installed by the same people who measured, who then level the boxes, adjust every door and walk the finished rooms with you.
Sunset Valley sits off US 290 and State Highway 71, with Jones Road running through the city and Brodie Lane along its edge, so it is a short drive from central Austin for our crew. Both ZIP codes in the city, 78735 and 78745, are inside our service area.
The process
Four steps, and nothing is built until you have signed off on the drawings and the price.
We measure the room, talk through how you use it and look at door styles and finishes together.
You get shop drawings and one written price. Nothing is built until you sign off on both.
Boxes, doors and panels are made to the dimensions taken in your home, not to catalogue sizes.
The same crew installs, levels, scribes to your walls and adjusts every door and drawer before we leave.
Questions
The main drivers are how many rooms are included, linear footage, box construction, door style and finish, custom sizing, matching existing cabinetry, accessories and demolition. We give a written figure after a free in-home measure.
Yes. We study the existing door profile, frame and finish, make a sample door, and check it against your current cabinets before the full order is built.
If the boxes are sound and you like the layout, refacing can work. If you are adding on and want the kitchen to open to the new space, replacement lets us redesign the layout around the addition. We look at both at the design visit.
Yes. We build garage cabinets, workbench runs, mudroom lockers and laundry storage, usually in plywood, which handles humidity far better than particleboard.
It depends on how many rooms are in scope, the door and finish chosen, and where the cabinets fall in a larger construction schedule. You get a delivery date when you approve the shop drawings.
Yes. Sunset Valley, ZIP codes 78735 and 78745, is close to central Austin and fully inside our service area, along with nearby Shady Hollow and Rollingwood.
Yes. Every installation comes with a written warranty, and we review what it covers at the design visit.
Texas does not license cabinet contractors at the state level. The checks that matter are a Sunset Valley permit when your scope requires one and a certificate of insurance, which you should ask to see before any company starts work.
We measure every room you want included, check floor levels where an addition meets the original house, note plumbing and electrical locations, and bring door and finish samples. You then receive shop drawings to approve before anything is built.
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.
