Austin Elite Cabinets designs and builds custom closets in Austin, TX, and is Travis County's trusted closet and cabinet specialist, specializing in walk-in closet systems, reach-in closet shelving and wardrobe cabinets fixed into the wall. We offer aromatic cedar linings and drawer banks on full-extension slides.
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Our team provides dressing tables, benches and glass-front cabinet towers, delivering organized storage that suits how you dress for homes and tailored cabinet solutions for both residential and commercial projects. One crew of our own measures the room in person, draws the closet in shop drawings you approve, and installs it under a written warranty.
From the spacing of every hanging rod and shelf to a full walk-in fitted with lighting, mirrors and a seat, our team handles every detail. Serving Austin, West Lake Hills, Barton Creek and Lakeway, we plan each closet around the clothes that are going into it, not around a catalog grid.
Why Austin Elite
No catalogue boxes and no handoffs. The people who measure your room are the people who build and install it.
A closet is a built-in architectural feature, not a piece of furniture you move later, so it is designed to the walls it lives inside. We build three kinds, and the room usually decides which one you get.
A walk-in is a storage room large enough to stand in while you choose what to wear. Ours combine wall-mounted cabinets, open shelving and drawer stacks, and when the footprint allows it we add a mirror, a dressing table or a bench. Good lighting is part of the plan from the first drawing, because a deep closet with one ceiling fixture leaves the back corners in shadow.
A reach-in is built into a bedroom wall and closed by doors. The whole job is getting more out of a shallow space: double hanging where short garments allow it, a shelf run above the rod, and drawers low enough to open without hitting the door frame.
Where a room has no closet at all, we build a fitted wardrobe into the wall. Tall, narrow linen closets for towels and toiletries fit beside a bathroom or at the end of a hallway, and the awkward space under a staircase often becomes the most useful storage in the house.
Wire shelving is cheap and it bends under a stack of sweaters. Wood shelving is sturdier, and that is what we build with. The question is which panel goes where.
Austin's humid subtropical climate, with long and very hot summers, is part of why sealing matters. A closet on an exterior wall sees more swing in moisture than an interior one, and we choose the panel and the finish with that in mind.
We do not publish a closet price, because two closets with the same floor area can be very different jobs. What moves the number is easy to name, and we walk through each item at the measure.
The honest way to price a closet is to stand in it. Call to book a free in-home measure and you get a drawing and a written quote built on your walls, not on an average.
Most closet systems are designed by room size alone. We start with an inventory: how many long dresses or coats, how many shirts and trousers, how many pairs of shoes, and whether two people share the space. That count sets the ratio of long hanging to double hanging to drawers, and it is the step that stops a new closet feeling full on the day it is finished.
The same crew that will install your closet measures it. They note the door swing, the ceiling height, outlets and vents, and any wall that leans, because every one of those changes where a cabinet can sit.
You get drawings showing every rod, shelf and drawer before anything is built. Changes are made on paper, which is where they are free.
Boxes are built to the drawings, then scribed to your walls on site so there are no gaps at the ceiling or along an uneven wall. We leave the closet clean, adjusted and ready to load.
What a closet job looks like depends a great deal on when the house was built. In West Lake Hills and Shady Hollow, many homes were built before 1990, and their original closets were sized for a smaller wardrobe, so the work is often widening a reach-in or converting a spare room into a walk-in. In Rollingwood, where older ranch houses are being replaced with new homes, the closet is designed with the rest of the house and can be as large as the plan allows.
Steiner Ranch was largely built in the 2000s under a master plan with dozens of homeowner associations, and many of its homes still carry the builder-grade interiors they were sold with. Where that means a closet of wire racks, replacing it with wood is one of the most visible upgrades in the house. Many of Volente's lake homes are newer construction, where the conversation is usually about finishing a large walk-in properly rather than finding room for one. We also serve Barton Creek, Lakeway, The Hills and Sunset Valley.
A closet project often leads to the next room. Many clients pair a new walk-in with built-in cabinets and bookcases for a bedroom sitting area, with laundry room and mudroom cabinets where coats and shoes pile up by the back door, or with garage cabinets for the things that should never have been in a bedroom closet in the first place. Each is its own design, drawn and built by the same team.
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
It depends on the linear footage, how many drawers versus open shelves you want, the panel material, the door style and finish, and extras like cedar lining or lighting. We give a written quote after a free in-home measure rather than a guess over the phone.
The timeline starts once you approve the shop drawings. Build time depends on the size of the closet and the finish, and the installation itself is usually short because the boxes arrive built and are fitted on site. We give you a schedule with your quote.
Wire shelving has limited weight capacity and it bends over time, and mixing it with wood rarely looks right. Most clients replace it entirely. We remove it, patch the wall anchors and build the new closet in its place.
Yes. A spare room gives you enough floor area for cabinets on three walls, a dressing table or bench, and good lighting. We measure the room, check the door and window positions, and draw the layout before anything is decided.
Moths avoid aromatic eastern red cedar, which is why it has long been used to line closets and chests. If you store wool or seasonal clothing, lining the whole closet or just a few drawers is a sensible choice, and we can show you both options at the measure.
We work across Austin and the west side, including West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Barton Creek, Shady Hollow, Sunset Valley, Lost Creek, Steiner Ranch, Lakeway, The Hills and Volente. Call and we will confirm your address.
Yes. Every closet we build and install is covered by a written warranty, and the same crew that measured and installed it is the one who comes back if anything needs attention.
We measure the closet, look at what you store in it, talk through hanging, shelving and drawer needs, and show you material and finish options. You leave with a clear idea of the layout, and a drawing and written quote follow.
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.
