Tempe Elite Cabinets provides professional cabinet services in Phoenix, AZ — Maricopa County, population 1,608,139. From custom kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities to commercial cabinetry & millwork, our insured team serves Phoenix homes and businesses.
Phoenix property owners near the Willo Historic District, Chase Field, Sky Harbor International Airport, Papago Park count on Tempe Elite Cabinets for custom cabinets in Phoenix. We bring the same cabinet work we are known for in Tempe to every job in Phoenix, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (855) 416-1185 for a free cabinet estimate in Phoenix, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Cabinet in Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix is the seat of Maricopa County and the 2020 census put it at 1,608,139 people, fifth largest in the country. It incorporated on February 25, 1881 on a townsite laid out over the Hohokam canal system, and the modern canals still follow lines dug more than a thousand years ago.
The city bought Sky Harbor in 1935 and runs it to this day. Fifteen urban villages divide the place up, and the ones that matter for our work sit close to the center: Encanto, Camelback East, Central City. Coronado went on the National Register in January 2000 with a period of significance running 1907 to 1942.
Encanto-Palmcroft followed in September 2005 covering 1920 to 1952, and Willo was listed in June 2006 for 1910 through 1956. Those three districts hold most of the surviving bungalows, Spanish Colonial Revival houses and early ranches in the city.
North of them, the midtown towers along Central Avenue went up from the 1960s onward, and their kitchens are a different problem entirely.
Two Phoenix kitchens keep us busy and they have nothing in common. The first is a 1928 bungalow in Willo or Coronado with original fir casings, plaster walls that aren't plumb anywhere, and a kitchen somebody butchered in 1974.
We build face-frame cabinets there, paint-grade maple with inset doors and a beaded frame, and we scribe every stile to the wall instead of pretending the wall is straight. The second is a midtown condo where the kitchen is nine feet wide and the refrigerator door blocks a drawer. That job is about millimeters.
Frameless boxes, 12-inch uppers taken to the ceiling, a 15-inch pull-out pantry beside the range, and Blum soft-close on everything, because a hollow condo wall passes a slammed door straight to the neighbor. Historic-district refacing runs $6,500 to $14,000 when the boxes are sound, and in a 1930s house they usually are. Condo replacement lands between $12,000 and $26,000.
We have talked more than one owner out of moving a wall that turned out to be holding up the floor above it.
Cabinet work we do in Phoenix, AZ
Tempe Elite Cabinets covers the same range of work in Phoenix that we do in Tempe — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Laundry Room Cabinets — Laundry room cabinets in Tempe almost always have to work around machines that are already sitting in a garage or crammed into a 30-inch closet off the hallway. The two upgrades that pay for themselves are a folding counter across the top of front loaders and shallow uppers you can actually reach into.
- Pantry Systems — Pantry cabinets and storage are the highest-return square footage in a Tempe kitchen, especially in the condo stock where the entire kitchen is eight to ten feet wide with no wall left to give. Converting a hall closet into a pantry holds more food than a 36-inch tall cabinet and usually costs less than half as much.
- Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting — Cabinet refacing and refinishing runs $4,000 to $10,000 in a typical Tempe kitchen against $15,000 to $40,000 to tear out and replace, and in this town it's the right call more often than it isn't. Tempe was built out decades ago, which means a lot of these kitchens sit on plywood boxes from an era when boxes were built properly and only the doors look their age.
- Cabinet Hardware & Organizers — Cabinet hardware and organizers are the cheapest thing in a Tempe kitchen that makes a real difference, at roughly $400 to $1,500 for the whole room. New hinges, new pulls and a couple of drawer inserts change how the kitchen feels every single day, and nothing gets demolished to do it.
- Soft-Close & Pull-Out Systems — Soft-close and pull-out shelves are the retrofit most Tempe kitchens should do before they do anything cosmetic, and a full kitchen of both usually lands between $1,200 and $3,500. You keep the cabinets you have and change the part you touch forty times a day.
- Countertops — Quartz and granite countertops in Tempe both land in roughly the same place on price, about $60 to $100 a square foot installed for the material most people actually pick. Quartz wins indoors here for one boring reason: it's nonporous, so it never needs sealing and it doesn't stain when a bottle of olive oil tips over behind the range.
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About Phoenix, AZ — and why local matters here
Phoenix sits in Maricopa County with a population of roughly 1,608,139, close enough to Tempe that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Willo Historic District, Chase Field, Sky Harbor International Airport, Papago Park.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Phoenix properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Maricopa County, and a cabinet contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Phoenix
Call (855) 416-1185 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Phoenix, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
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Popular services in Phoenix: Custom Kitchen Cabinets and Bathroom Vanities.
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