Tempe Elite Cabinets provides professional cabinet services in Scottsdale, AZ — Maricopa County, population 241,361. From custom kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities to commercial cabinetry & millwork, our insured team serves Scottsdale homes and businesses.
Scottsdale property owners near Taliesin West, Camelback Mountain, the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, Scottsdale Stadium count on Tempe Elite Cabinets for custom cabinets in Scottsdale. We bring the same cabinet work we are known for in Tempe to every job in Scottsdale, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (855) 416-1185 for a free cabinet estimate in Scottsdale, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Cabinet in Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale sits directly east of Tempe across the Loop 101, and the 2020 census counted 241,361 people here. The town incorporated on June 25, 1951, when about 2,000 people lived in it. By 1970 the population had reached roughly 68,000 and the city limits had stretched from five square miles to sixty-two.
Frank Lloyd Wright built Taliesin West at the foot of the McDowells in 1937 and taught there every winter until he died, which is why so much of the architectural vocabulary in this town traces back to desert masonry and long horizontal lines.
HonorHealth is the largest employer with roughly 7,131 people on payroll, followed by Vanguard at 2,770 and General Dynamics Mission Systems at 2,700. The McDowell Sonoran Preserve protects a planned 36,000 acres along the northern edge.
Housing runs in clear layers: small block ranches south of Indian School from the 1950s, the ranch and split-level tracts of the 1960s and 1970s, then the master-planned era that produced Scottsdale Ranch in 1978, Gainey Ranch in 1980 and Desert Mountain in 1986.
The best work in Scottsdale is in the 1950s and 1960s houses south of Shea, where the original kitchens were built by hand and the proportions are worth keeping.
We do a lot of flat-slab walnut and quartersawn white oak in those, frameless boxes with 3mm PVC edge banding so the reveals stay tight, and full-extension undermount slides under drawers deep enough to hold a stockpot. Inset doors are the other request that keeps coming, and they're the one place where this climate punishes a bad decision.
Inset needs a consistent 3/32-inch reveal, and solid stiles milled at 12 percent moisture content in March will not hold that gap in June when the house drops to 15 percent relative humidity.
So we spec engineered cores under veneer, finish all six sides in conversion varnish, and stack the doors in the house for a week before we hang a single one. A full custom kitchen here usually lands between $38,000 and $95,000.
If your 1962 birch cabinets are still square and the boxes are solid, we'll tell you to reface and put the money into the counters.
Cabinet work we do in Scottsdale, AZ
Tempe Elite Cabinets covers the same range of work in Scottsdale that we do in Tempe — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Custom Kitchen Cabinets — Custom kitchen cabinets in Tempe run $15,000 to $40,000 and up for a full kitchen, and that spread has almost nothing to do with the door style you fell for online. It moves on box construction, drawer count, and whether anyone measured the walls before the order went in.
- Bathroom Vanities — Bathroom vanity cabinets take more abuse than anything else we build in Tempe, because they swing from 12 percent humidity in June to a wet towel hanging off the door every night of the year. We size them to the room rather than to a catalog, which in a Hayden Ferry condo bathroom rarely means the 21-inch standard depth.
- Walk-In Closets & Wardrobes — A custom closet system in Tempe is usually an exercise in making a 1960s reach-in behave like a walk-in. Most of the gain comes from double-hanging, drawers where bare carpet used to be, and shelving that runs to the ceiling instead of quitting at 84 inches.
- Garage Cabinets & Storage — Garage cabinets and storage in Tempe have to survive an unconditioned room that hits 120 degrees in August, and that single fact rules out most of what gets sold as garage cabinetry. Thermofoil doors peel at that temperature, particleboard shelving sags under a case of bottled water, and stick-on hooks let go somewhere around the second summer.
- Home Office & Built-Ins — Home office built-ins are the best money you can spend on a spare bedroom in a Tempe ranch, and they run $4,500 to $12,000 for a full wall depending on length and whether the doors get painted or stained. A desk that's scribed into the room gives you eight or ten more usable inches than furniture ever will.
- Entertainment Centers & Media Walls — Entertainment center and media wall projects in Tempe succeed or fail on two things that have nothing to do with woodwork: ventilation and glare. A sealed cabinet packed with a receiver and a game console, inside a house that's holding 80 degrees in July because nobody wants that power bill, is an oven with a nice door on it.
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About Scottsdale, AZ — and why local matters here
Scottsdale sits in Maricopa County with a population of roughly 241,361, close enough to Tempe that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Taliesin West, Camelback Mountain, the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, Scottsdale Stadium.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Scottsdale 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 Scottsdale
Call (855) 416-1185 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Scottsdale, 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 Scottsdale: Custom Kitchen Cabinets and Bathroom Vanities.
We also serve Phoenix, AZ and the Salt River Valley.