Tempe Elite Cabinets provides professional cabinet services in Sun City, AZ — Maricopa County, population 39,931. From custom kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities to commercial cabinetry & millwork, our licensed and insured team serves Sun City homes and businesses.
Sun City property owners near the Sun Bowl Amphitheatre, the Sun City Sundial, Grand Avenue count on Tempe Elite Cabinets for custom cabinets in Sun City. We bring the same cabinet work we are known for in Tempe to every job in Sun City, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (844) 511-2320 for a free cabinet estimate in Sun City, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Cabinet in Sun City, AZ
Sun City opened on January 1, 1960 and 100,000 people turned up that first weekend, ten times what Del Webb expected. It has never incorporated. It's a census-designated place in Maricopa County with 39,931 residents as of 2020 and a median age of 72.6, among the oldest in the United States. The street plan is four pinwheels of concentric circles, which is charming or maddening depending on whether you're the one driving. There are eight golf courses and seven recreation centers. The Sun Bowl Amphitheatre still books shows. The Sun City Sundial is one of the largest horizontal sundials in the country. Sun City Stadium opened in 1971, hosted Milwaukee Brewers spring training from 1973 through 1985, and came down in 1995. The 2020 count found 28,344 housing units with a 13.7 percent vacancy rate. Almost all of it is single-story block construction from the 1960s and early 1970s, which means low ceilings, original 30-inch uppers, and kitchens laid out for a household that cooked three meals a day.
In Sun City the brief is almost never how it looks. It's how high it is. A 1962 kitchen here puts the everyday plates at 62 inches and the stockpots at floor level behind a fixed shelf, and both of those are a problem for somebody who shouldn't be on a step stool or on their knees. So we do the same conversion over and over and we're glad to. Base cabinets become drawers on full-extension undermount slides rated at 100 pounds. Fixed upper shelves get pull-down racks that bring the first shelf to roughly 48 inches. Every knob comes off and a 5-inch D-pull goes on, because a pull can be hooked with one finger and a knob has to be gripped. At the bathroom vanity we take out the doors and build a knee space with the plumbing offset and insulated. A full base-to-drawer conversion runs $4,800 to $12,000. Pull-downs are $310 to $520 each installed. If your boxes are the original Del Webb plywood, and plenty still are, we'll reface instead of replace and put the savings into hardware where it does something.
Getting a free estimate in Sun City
Call (844) 511-2320 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Sun City, 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.
We also serve El Mirage, AZ and the rest of the Salt River Valley. Everything starts at the Tempe Elite Cabinets homepage.
Cabinet work we do in Sun City, AZ
Tempe Elite Cabinets covers the same range of work in Sun City 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 Sun City, AZ — and why local matters here
Sun City sits in Maricopa County with a population of roughly 39,931, close enough to Tempe that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Sun Bowl Amphitheatre, the Sun City Sundial, Grand Avenue.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Sun City 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.
Popular services in Sun City: Custom Kitchen Cabinets and Bathroom Vanities.
We also serve El Mirage, AZ and the Salt River Valley.