Austin Elite Cabinets designs and installs laundry room cabinets in Austin, TX, and is Travis County's leading specialist in utility-room storage, specializing in upper cabinets above the washer and dryer, pull-out hampers, and fold-out ironing boards. We offer mudroom lockers and built-in benches with shoe storage underneath.
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Our team provides moisture-resistant boxes and wipeable painted finishes, delivering a laundry that stays organized for busy households and durable, easy-clean storage for both residential and commercial projects. The same crew that measures your room installs the cabinets, working from shop drawings you approve first, and every job carries a written warranty.
From sizing a tall cabinet to clear a front-load pair and the dryer's vent run to a full garage-entry drop zone with lockers, hooks and a bench, our team handles every detail. Serving Austin, Steiner Ranch, Lakeway and The Hills, we build the room around the door your family actually walks through.
Why Austin Elite
No catalogue boxes and no handoffs. The people who measure your room are the people who build and install it.
A laundry room holds a washer that moves gallons of water every load, a dryer that pushes out hot, damp, lint-filled air, and often a utility sink. In older houses the laundry sat in a basement. In newer homes it tends to sit on the main floor near the kitchen or garage, or upstairs by the bedrooms, which puts finished cabinetry right next to the water.
Particleboard swells and discolors once water reaches an unsealed edge, and a leaking supply hose behind a washer is exactly how that happens. Low-grade MDF can swell and break apart when soaked. So we build laundry boxes, and especially the base under a utility sink, from plywood, whose cross-grained layers resist swelling and shrinkage far better. Painted doors go on moisture-resistant MDF, the grade made for humid rooms, which also takes paint cleanly.
The dryer's fan pulls moisture and lint out of the drum and pushes it through the duct to the outside. The residential code requires that duct to end outside the building, with a backdraft damper and no screen, generally at least 3 feet from any opening. Cabinets built tight over and around the dryer must never pinch that duct. A crushed or lint-choked duct lengthens drying times and raises the temperature inside the machine, and failure to clean the duct accounts for about a third of residential dryer fires. We plan the cabinet layout around a clear, straight vent path.
Laundry cabinetry is built around appliances that are already a fixed size, so the drawing starts with them.
The accessories are where a laundry room stops being a closet with machines in it.
Laundry rooms are often placed next to the garage and pull double duty as the mudroom, the small room at an entry where outdoor clothes and shoes come off before they reach the rest of the house. Built well, it is the place backpacks, keys and leashes land every day.
A good locker gives each person a section of about 12 to 16 inches wide with an upper shelf, hooks set at staggered heights so kids can reach their own, and a bin or cubby for shoes below. Depth of around 14 to 18 inches lets a coat hang without crushing against the back.
An 18-inch seat height is comfortable for pulling boots on and off. The space under the seat should work too: drawers, a lift-up lid, open cubbies or cabinet doors.
Mudroom surfaces get wet coats, muddy boots and body oils. Austin gets about 34 inches of rain spread evenly across the year, and storms can bring flash flooding, so the entry takes water often. We build these sections on moisture-resistant plywood or MDF with a wipeable painted or laminate finish, and slatwall is an option behind the hooks where scuffs would show.
There is no honest one-size price for this work, because a single upper over a stacked pair and a full laundry plus mudroom wall are different projects. These are the factors that move the quote.
The way to get a real figure is a free in-home measure. You get a written quote based on your room, your machines and your family.
The sequence is short and you approve each stage before the next begins.
What the room needs depends on when the house was built.
Call to book a free measure and we will come to you.
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
Linear footage, plywood versus particleboard, door style, finish, the number of accessories such as hampers and ironing boards, tear-out, and any duct or plumbing moves. You get a written quote after a free measure.
It depends on the size of the room and our production schedule. Your timeline comes with the shop drawings, so the install date is set before we build.
We serve Austin plus Steiner Ranch, Lakeway, The Hills, Volente, Barton Creek, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Sunset Valley, Shady Hollow and Lost Creek. Give us a call with your address.
Yes. We measure your existing machines and their hoses and duct, then build around them with room to pull them out for service.
Wire shelving has no doors and no base cabinet, so it hides nothing and holds no hamper or ironing board. Most owners replace it outright. We show both options in the drawings.
Often, yes, particularly when the laundry sits next to the garage door. We plan lockers, a bench and hooks along the wall you walk past.
Yes, a written warranty covers the cabinetry and installation, and it comes with your project paperwork.
Texas has no statewide licence for cabinet installation. Call and ask us about coverage. The commitments we put on paper are the scope, the approved drawings and the written warranty.
An installer measures the room, the machines and the entry, looks at the dryer duct and water shutoffs, and asks how your household uses the space. Drawings and a 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.
