Tempe Elite Cabinets provides professional garage cabinets & storage in Tempe, AZ for residential and commercial properties across the Salt River Valley. 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. We build for the heat first and worry about how it looks second.
Two constructions work here. Welded steel with a powder-coat finish, which doesn't care about temperature at all, or 3/4-inch plywood cases faced with high-pressure laminate, edge banded in 3mm PVC, hung on a French cleat six inches off the slab. Six inches matters more than it sounds like it should. It keeps the bottom edge out of whatever sheets under the garage door during a monsoon cell, makes the floor easy to blow out, and gives scorpions one less dark seam to move into.
The spec that goes wrong is depth. People order 24-inch base cabinets because that's what a kitchen uses, then discover they've taken two feet off a bay that was already tight for a crew-cab truck. Sixteen to eighteen inches deep holds nearly everything a garage actually stores, and only the workbench run needs to come out to 24. Uppers should stop where a person of normal height can reach the second shelf without a ladder, which is not where the ceiling is.
On the older streets, and anywhere near the Loop 101 commuter belt, the garage is the whole storage system. Tempe houses are 1,200 to 1,600 square feet with no basement and an attic you can't stand up in, so the garage holds the holiday bins, the camping gear, the bikes and the tools, and it does that while the family car sits outside baking. Getting the car back in the garage is the actual project.
Heat is also why we avoid rigid thermofoil and most adhesive-backed veneers out here. Those films are bonded with a heat-activated glue, and a garage that runs 115 to 125 degrees for weeks is a slow reheat cycle that eventually wins. Laminate over plywood, or powder-coated steel, does not have that failure mode.
A full two-car garage in cabinets runs $3,000 to $9,000 installed. Now the uncomfortable part: overhead racks do more per dollar than anything we sell. A pair of ceiling racks at $250 apiece takes the seasonal bins off the floor entirely and costs less than one tall cabinet. Start there, live with it a few months, then buy cabinets for what's left.
Install is one to two days. Anchoring into a block or brick side wall means sleeve anchors rather than drywall screws, and anything that lands on the shared wall to the house gets located off studs we actually found with a bit, not a magnet. If the slab slopes to the door, and in Tempe it usually does, base cabinets get shimmed and the toe kick gets scribed so the counter reads level even though the floor doesn't.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — furniture-grade plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, frameless European construction, full-overlay and inset doors, rigid thermofoil and veneer refacing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Tempe and nearby communities including Scottsdale, Phoenix, Glendale, Peoria.
What We Handle
Everything our garage cabinets & storage in Tempe covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of garage cabinets & storage work in Tempe, AZ. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- garage cabinets storage
- garage storage systems
- garage wall cabinets
- overhead garage storage racks
- garage workbench cabinets
- steel garage cabinets
- slatwall garage organization
- garage tool storage
- heavy duty garage shelving
- garage cabinet installation cost
- two car garage storage ideas
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Tempe services.
Materials, equipment and how we do garage cabinets & storage
The difference between garage cabinets & storage that lasts and garage cabinets & storage that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with furniture-grade plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, frameless European construction, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Tempe job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of cabinet work in the Salt River Valley means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do garage cabinets & storage outside Tempe
Tempe Elite Cabinets covers Tempe and the surrounding communities of the Salt River Valley. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Garage Cabinets & Storage in Scottsdale, AZ — Maricopa County, population 241,361
- Garage Cabinets & Storage in Phoenix, AZ — Maricopa County, population 1,608,139
- Garage Cabinets & Storage in Glendale, AZ — Maricopa County, population 248,325
- Garage Cabinets & Storage in Peoria, AZ — Maricopa County, population 190,985
- Garage Cabinets & Storage in Surprise, AZ — Maricopa County, population 143,148
- Garage Cabinets & Storage in Goodyear, AZ — Maricopa County, population 95,294
Start on the Tempe Elite Cabinets homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Tempe Chooses Tempe Elite Cabinets
- ✓Over 15 years refacing and building cabinetry across the Salt River Valley
- ✓Refacing quoted honestly when the boxes are sound, not upsold to a teardown
- ✓Frameless European construction to recover interior width in small kitchens
- ✓Soffit removal so uppers run to the ceiling in Tempe's older ranch houses
Every garage cabinets & storage project in Tempe gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free garage cabinets & storage free estimate in Tempe, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.