Austin Elite Cabinets builds and installs commercial cabinets in Austin, TX, and is a trusted Travis County specialist in casework and architectural millwork, specializing in tenant finish-out casework, clinic and exam room cabinets, and classroom storage walls. We offer plastic laminate casework on a melamine core and wood-veneer reception millwork.
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Our team provides frameless cabinet fabrication sequenced to a general contractor's schedule, delivering cleanable, hard-wearing storage for tenant spaces and the same build discipline for both residential and commercial projects. Every job starts with our own field measure against the architect's plans, then shop drawings you sign off before a panel is cut, and the installed casework is covered by a written warranty.
From accessible counter sections held to the 34-inch work surface maximum to floor-by-floor casework packages closed out with submittals and punch list, our team handles every detail. Serving Austin, Rollingwood, West Lake Hills and Sunset Valley, we bid from your drawings and plan the install around the building's occupants.
Why Austin Elite
No catalogue boxes and no handoffs. The people who measure your room are the people who build and install it.
This page is the capability statement for our commercial work. If you are a general contractor carrying a millwork line item, a developer pricing a building, or a facility manager replacing tired storage in an occupied space, this is the scope we take on.
Scope is set by your drawings and specifications, not by a catalog. We read the casework and millwork sections of the specification as written and price what is shown, then list clarifications in writing so nothing is assumed.
The process
Commercial casework lives or dies on paperwork and sequencing, so the process is written into the proposal.
We review the architectural set and specs, take off every run and elevation, and return a written bid with inclusions, exclusions and clarifications.
Before award or right after it, we walk the space. In a renovation the existing walls, floors and plumbing rarely match the drawings, and a site walk finds that before fabrication rather than at install.
Submittals are the documents a contractor sends the architect to prove the right product will be installed. Ours carry shop drawings, product data on hardware and laminates, and finish samples for color selection. Shop drawings show dimensions, construction details and the field dimensions that still need verifying on site.
Once drawings come back approved, we verify critical dimensions after framing and drywall, then build to the approved set.
We install in the phase your schedule assigns, work the punch list, and hand over closeout documents: approved submittals, hardware data and the written warranty.
Most commercial cabinet work in Austin happens in a building that is still open. A clinic keeps seeing patients on the floor above, a school keeps teaching down the hall, and a landlord needs the neighboring suites leased and quiet.
Because the boxes arrive built and labeled to the approved shop drawings, the time spent inside an occupied space is shorter than a site-built job.
Casework is where accessibility gets built or missed, because counters, sinks and reach ranges are cabinet dimensions.
A standard base cabinet stands 34.5 inches tall and carries a top near 36 inches, so an accessible section is a separate detail on the shop drawings, not a field fix. In Austin, the Development Services Department's Commercial Building Plan Review Division reviews commercial remodels and tenant finish-outs, so our drawings are prepared to sit alongside your permit set.
Commercial cabinets are specified for traffic and cleaning, not for a showroom look.
Commercial-grade casework usually runs a melamine particleboard core faced in high-pressure decorative laminate, the material most people know by the brand names Wilsonart or Formica. Where the spec calls for moisture resistance at sink bases, plywood boxes hold fasteners better and tolerate a leak.
Frameless, European-style boxes have no face frame, so doors mount straight to the box sides and the opening is roughly an inch and a half wider per cabinet. That extra access matters on supply storage and means 35mm cup hinges release quickly when a door needs service.
Laminate faces take hard daily wiping in clinics and classrooms. Wood veneer is kept for reception and conference areas where the millwork is part of the brand. Wire pulls, full-extension slides and locking hardware are chosen from the spec, and substitutions go through submittals, never through the field.
We do not publish a number for commercial work, because a bid built on your drawings is the only figure worth trusting. These are the drivers that move it:
Send the plans and specs with your bid request and we return a written, itemized proposal after the site walk.
Austin has been the fastest-growing large city in the country since 2010, and that growth shows up as office floors off MoPac and US 183, clinic suites, school renovations across Austin ISD, and apartment buildings along the I-35 and SH 71 corridors. Each of those building types has its own page here:
To request a bid, call with the property type, the approximate linear footage or unit count, your timeline, and whether stamped drawings exist. We answer with a site walk date.
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Questions
Yes. Send the drawing set and the casework and millwork sections of the spec. We take off every elevation and return an itemized bid with written clarifications, then confirm dimensions on a site walk.
Yes. Shop drawings, hardware and laminate product data and finish samples go to the architect for approval before fabrication starts. Nothing is built from an unapproved set.
Yes. We phase installs by floor or suite, work after hours where the landlord requires it, contain dust at the work area and coordinate access with the property or facility manager.
We detail accessible work surfaces, service counter sections and knee spaces on the shop drawings to the dimensions TAS sets, so the Registered Accessibility Specialist inspects what was drawn.
It is set in the proposal and counts from approved shop drawings and final finish selections, because fabrication cannot start before both. Tell us your install window with the bid request.
Texas does not issue a statewide licence for cabinet installation. Send your insurance, additional insured and W-9 requirements with the bid request and we answer them in writing before award.
Yes. Removal of existing casework, patching behind it and new installation can be one scope, phased so the rest of the building keeps operating.
The installed work carries a written warranty, delivered with the closeout documents at the end of the job.
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